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12-letter words containing n, s, h, e, l

  • shelf fungus — bracket fungus
  • shelter tent — a small, two-person, military tent consisting of two halves (shelter halves) buttoned or tied together, held up by accessory ropes and poles.
  • shepherdling — a young or little shepherd
  • shillingless — not possessing a shilling
  • shingle roof — a roof covered with thin rectangular tiles, esp made of wood, that are laid with others in overlapping rows
  • shoot a line — to try to create a false image, as by boasting or exaggerating
  • shovel-nosed — having the head, snout, or beak broad and flat like the blade of a shovel.
  • shut-in well — confined to one's home, a hospital, etc., as from illness.
  • 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.
  • simian shelf — a shelflike thickening along the inside of the mandible, characteristic of the anthropoid apes.
  • single rhyme — a rhyme of monosyllables, as in heart, part.
  • single-phase — noting or pertaining to a circuit having an alternating current with one phase or with phases differing by 180°.
  • siphonostele — a hollow tube of vascular tissue enclosing a pith and embedded in ground tissue.
  • 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.
  • slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
  • slobbishness — the state or characteristic of being a slob
  • 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.
  • slothfulness — sluggardly; indolent; lazy.
  • small change — coins of small denomination.
  • smotheringly — in a smothering manner
  • snaggletooth — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • splotchiness — the state or condition of being splotchy
  • sponge cloth — any cloth loosely woven of coarse yarn to produce a spongy look or texture, especially one constructed in honeycomb weave.
  • 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
  • stephenville — a town in central Texas.
  • sternwheeler — a boat propelled by a paddle wheel at the stern.
  • 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.
  • strengthless — lacking strength.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • sunshine law — a law requiring a government agency to open its official meetings and records to the general public.
  • synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
  • technologies — the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science.
  • technologist — a person who specializes in technology.
  • telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • teleshopping — electronic shopping via videotex or other interactive information service.
  • tenths-place — next after ninth; being the ordinal number for ten.
  • thankfulness — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
  • the analects — a collection of Confucius' teachings
  • the antilles — a group of islands in the Caribbean
  • the elements — the first or basic principles; rudiments
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