12-letter words containing i, n, t, h
- shooting war — open conflict between hostile nations involving direct military engagements.
- short notice — little warning
- short-acting — (of a drug) quickly effective, but requiring regularly repeated doses for long-term treatment, being rapidly absorbed, distributed in the body, and excreted
- short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
- shortcomings — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- showstopping — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
- shrimp plant — a small, sprawling shrub, Justicia brandegeana (or Beloperone guttata), of the acanthus family, native to Mexico, having small white flowers protruding from a series of overlapping reddish bracts and often cultivated as a houseplant.
- shut-in well — confined to one's home, a hospital, etc., as from illness.
- sight screen — a white screen set in line with the wicket as an aid to the batsman in seeing the ball when it is bowled.
- sight unseen — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- sightseeings — the act of visiting and seeing places and objects of interest.
- silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
- sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
- siphonostele — a hollow tube of vascular tissue enclosing a pith and embedded in ground tissue.
- sixth column — the persons residing in a country at war who are devoted to aiding the fifth column in its activities, especially by lowering morale, spreading rumors, etc.
- skirt length — the length of someone's skirt
- slant height — (of a right circular cone) the distance from the vertex to any point on the circumference of the base.
- slot machine — a gambling machine operated by inserting coins into a slot and pulling a handle that activates a set of spinning symbols on wheels, the final alignment of which determines the payoff that is released into a receptacle at the bottom.
- smith island — a group of islands in S Maryland and N Virginia, in Chesapeake Bay.
- smotheriness — the condition or state of smothering
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- smyth sewing — a method of sewing together folded, gathered, and collated signatures with a single thread sewn through the folds of individual signatures.
- snapshotting — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
- solzhenitsyn — Alexander or Aleksandr (Isayevich) [al-ig-zan-der ee-sahy-uh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr ee-sah-yi-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər iˈsaɪ ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr iˈsɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1918–2008, Russian novelist: Nobel prize 1970; in the U.S. 1974–94.
- soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
- south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- spanish foot — a carved pyramidal foot having fluted, concave sides usually ending in a scroll at the bottom.
- sphacelation — the process of mortification
- sphincterial — relating to a sphincter
- spiderhunter — any of several sunbirds of the genus Arachnothera, of southern Asia and the East Indies, having dull-colored plumage and a long bill.
- spinach beet — chard, a plant cultivated for its edible leaves
- spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- spinstership — the state of being a spinster
- splotchiness — the state or condition of being splotchy
- sportfishing — fishing with a rod and reel for sport, especially for saltwater sport fish from a motorboat.
- spotlighting — a strong, focused light thrown upon a particular spot, as on a small area of a stage or in a television studio, for making some object, person, or group especially conspicuous.
- spring catch — a catch for an interior or cabinet door that has a bolt operated by a spring.
- spring vetch — any of several mostly climbing plants belonging to the genus Vicia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves ending in tendrils and bearing pealike flowers, especially V. sativa (spring vetch) cultivated for forage and soil improvement.
- stag hunting — the act of hunting or chasing and killing stags
- stakhanovism — a method for increasing production by rewarding individual initiative, developed in the Soviet Union in 1935.
- stakhanovite — a worker in the Soviet Union who regularly surpassed production quotas and was specially honored and rewarded.
- stand-offish — If you say that someone is stand-offish, you mean that they behave in a formal and rather unfriendly way.
- starry night — a painting (1889) by Vincent van Gogh.
- stealthiness — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
- stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stephen viii — died a.d. 942, pope 939–942.
- stephenville — a town in central Texas.
- stereophonic — pertaining to a system of sound recording or reproduction using two or more separate channels to produce a more realistic effect by capturing the spatial dimensions of a performance (the location of performers as well as their acoustic surroundings), used especially with high-fidelity recordings and reproduction systems (opposed to monophonic).