12-letter words containing o, a, n, s, h, g
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- speech organ — any part of the body, as the tongue, velum, diaphragm, or lungs, that participates, actively or passively, voluntarily or involuntarily, in the production of the sounds of speech.
- sphenography — the art of writing in cuneiform characters.
- steganograph — a piece of coded writing; cipher
- stenographer — a person who specializes in taking dictation in shorthand.
- stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
- stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
- 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.
- trapshooting — the sport of shooting at clay pigeons hurled into the air from a trap.
- waking hours — Your waking hours are the times when you are awake rather than asleep.
- walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
- warning shot — gunshot fired into the air
- washing soda — sodium carbonate (def 2).
- washingtonia — either of two fan palm species from the genus Washingtonia
- work-sharing — an arrangement whereby one full-time job may be carried out by two people working part time
- younghusband — Sir Francis Edward. 1863–1942, British explorer, mainly of N India and Tibet. He used military force to compel the Dalai Lama to sign (1904) a trade agreement with Britain