12-letter words containing n, a, h, l
- sea elephant — elephant seal.
- selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- self-healing — curing or curative; prescribed or helping to heal.
- self-heating — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
- shoot a line — to try to create a false image, as by boasting or exaggerating
- shot on goal — a shot that enters the goal or would have entered the goal if it had not been blocked by the goalkeeper or another defensive player.
- 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.
- simian shelf — a shelflike thickening along the inside of the mandible, characteristic of the anthropoid apes.
- single-phase — noting or pertaining to a circuit having an alternating current with one phase or with phases differing by 180°.
- slab dashing — the act or process of covering an exterior wall with roughcast.
- slant height — (of a right circular cone) the distance from the vertex to any point on the circumference of the base.
- slap dashing — slab dashing.
- slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
- 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.
- small change — coins of small denomination.
- smallholding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
- smith island — a group of islands in S Maryland and N Virginia, in Chesapeake Bay.
- snaggletooth — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
- snatch block — a fairlead having the form of a block that can be opened to receive the bight of a rope at any point along its length.
- south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
- spanish heel — a high, curved heel with a straight heel breast, used on women's shoes.
- sphacelation — the process of mortification
- sphincterial — relating to a sphincter
- stealthiness — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
- stenothermal — (of animals or plants) able to exist only within a narrow range of temperature
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
- stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
- sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
- sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
- sulphonation — the action or process of converting or being converted into a sulphonate
- sunshine law — a law requiring a government agency to open its official meetings and records to the general public.
- supply chain — process of manufacture and sale
- synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
- synchroflash — of or relating to photography employing a device that synchronizes the photoflash with the shutter.
- synchronical — happening at the same time
- talking head — Television Slang. a closeup picture of a person who is talking, especially as a participant in a talk show.
- talking shop — If you say that a conference or a committee is just a talking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.
- tammany hall — a Democratic political organization in New York City, founded in 1789 as a fraternal benevolent society (Tammany Society) and associated especially in the late 1800s and early 1900s with corruption and abuse of power.
- technicality — technical character.
- technicalize — to make technical
- technobabble — incomprehensible technical language or jargon.
- technophilia — a person who loves or is enthusiastic about advanced technology.
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
- telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
- tenochtitlan — the capital of the Aztec empire: founded in 1325; destroyed by the Spaniards in 1521; now the site of Mexico City.
- tenths-place — next after ninth; being the ordinal number for ten.