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12-letter words containing n, e, d, h

  • shoshone dam — a dam on the Shoshone River. 328 feet (100 meters) high.
  • shovel-nosed — having the head, snout, or beak broad and flat like the blade of a shovel.
  • snake's head — checkered lily.
  • snake's-head — checkered lily.
  • snake-hipped — having thin, sinuous hips.
  • sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
  • sounion head — the tip of the Attica peninsula, E central Greece: site of ancient temple ruins.
  • southernwood — a woody-stemmed wormwood, Artemisia abrotanum, of southern Europe, having aromatic, finely dissected leaves.
  • spearheading — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
  • speech sound — any of the set of distinctive sounds of a given language. Compare phoneme.
  • spiderhunter — any of several sunbirds of the genus Arachnothera, of southern Asia and the East Indies, having dull-colored plumage and a long bill.
  • spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
  • starchedness — the condition or quality of being starched
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • stone-washed — Stone-washed jeans are jeans which have been specially washed with small pieces of stone so that when you buy them they are fairly pale and soft.
  • stonyhearted — unfeeling; pitiless; cruel
  • stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
  • strengthened — to make stronger; give strength to.
  • strike hands — to show agreement by clasping hands
  • stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
  • stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.
  • sudden death — an overtime period in which a tied contest is won and play is stopped immediately after one of the contestants scores, as in football, or goes ahead, as in golf.
  • 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
  • sun-drenched — Sun-drenched places have a lot of hot sunshine.
  • synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
  • synecdochism — the use of synecdoche
  • take in hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • talking head — Television Slang. a closeup picture of a person who is talking, especially as a participant in a talk show.
  • teaching aid — material used by a teacher to supplement classroom instruction or to stimulate the interest of students.
  • technobandit — a person who steals technological secrets, as from the government or a place of employment, and sells them to agents of foreign governments or to competing firms.
  • tenth-grader — someone who is in their tenth year of education in the US
  • the ardennes — a wooded plateau in SE Belgium, Luxembourg, and NE France: scene of heavy fighting in both World Wars
  • the devonian — the Devonian period or rock system
  • the dingbats — delirium tremens
  • the distance — the most distant or a faraway part of the visible scene or landscape
  • the divinity — God
  • the east end — a densely populated part of E London containing former industrial and dock areas, now extensively redeveloped for offices
  • the herdsman — the constellation Boötes
  • the hundreds — the numbers 100 to 109
  • the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
  • the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
  • the mainland — a particular landmass as viewed from a nearby island with which it has close links, such as Great Britain as viewed from Northern Ireland or continental Australia as viewed from Tasmania
  • the midlands — the central counties of England, including Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, the former West Midlands metropolitan county, and Worcestershire: characterized by manufacturing industries
  • the nearside — the side of a vehicle normally nearer the kerb (in Britain, the left side)
  • the occident — the Occident. the West; the countries of Europe and America. Western Hemisphere.
  • the ordnance — a department of an army or government dealing with military supplies
  • the pandects — a digest of Roman civil law in fifty books, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the 6th cent. a.d.; the Digest
  • the west end — a part of W central London containing the main shopping and entertainment areas
  • theory-laden — (of an expression) capable of being understood only within the context of a specific theory, as for example superego, which requires the apparatus of Freudian theory in explanation
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