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12-letter words containing o, a, t, h, s

  • stately home — a country mansion, usually of architectural interest and often open to the public.
  • stay-at-home — not inclined to travel or seek diversions or pastimes outside one's residence, area, or country.
  • steam shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
  • steam-shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
  • steatorrhoea — the presence of excess fat in the stools, usually caused by disease of the pancreas or intestine, and characterized by chronic diarrhea and weight loss.
  • 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).
  • stenothermal — (of animals or plants) able to exist only within a narrow range of temperature
  • stereography — the art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane.
  • stichomythia — dramatic dialogue, as in a Greek play, characterized by brief exchanges between two characters, each of whom usually speaks in one line of verse during a scene of intense emotion or strong argumentation.
  • stomach ache — pain in gut
  • stomach pump — a suction pump for removing the contents of the stomach, used especially in cases of poisoning.
  • stomach worm — a nematode, Haemonchus contortus, parasitic in the stomach of sheep, cattle, and related animals.
  • 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
  • storm-lashed — badly affected by storms
  • stouthearted — brave and resolute; dauntless.
  • straight off — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • straight out — thoroughgoing: a straight-out Democrat.
  • straight-out — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
  • stratosphere — the region of the upper atmosphere extending upward from the tropopause to about 30 miles (50 km) above the earth, characterized by little vertical change in temperature.
  • strep throat — an acute sore throat caused by hemolytic streptococci and accompanied by fever and prostration.
  • strophanthin — a very poisonous, bitter glycoside or mixture of glycosides obtained from the dried, ripe seeds of a strophanthus, especially Strophanthus kombe, used as a cardiac stimulant.
  • strophanthus — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Strophanthus, of the dogbane family, chiefly of tropical Africa.
  • strophiolate — having a strophiole
  • stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
  • subhastation — a public auction or sale
  • sulphonation — the action or process of converting or being converted into a sulphonate
  • sycophantish — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • sycophantism — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • sycophantize — to act the sycophant
  • synantherous — with united anthers
  • synarthrodia — synarthrosis.
  • synarthroses — immovable articulation; a fixed or immovable joint; suture.
  • synarthrosis — immovable articulation; a fixed or immovable joint; suture.
  • 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.
  • telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • thalassocrat — a nation that has dominion over the seas.
  • thanks a lot — thank you
  • the absolute — ultimate reality regarded as uncaused, unmodified, unified and complete, timeless, etc.
  • the hot seat — If you are in the hot seat, you are responsible for making important and difficult decisions.
  • the lothians — three historic counties of SE central Scotland (now council areas): East Lothian, West Lothian, and Midlothian (including Edinburgh)
  • the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
  • the old days — the past
  • the passions — feeling, as opposed to reason
  • the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
  • the saltsjön — an inlet of the Baltic Sea in Sweden
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