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12-letter words containing o, s, h, i

  • stakhanovite — a worker in the Soviet Union who regularly surpassed production quotas and was specially honored and rewarded.
  • stand-offish — If you say that someone is stand-offish, you mean that they behave in a formal and rather unfriendly way.
  • stegophilist — a person who enjoys climbing up the outside of buildings
  • stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stereophonic — pertaining to a system of sound recording or reproduction using two or more separate channels to produce a more realistic effect by capturing the spatial dimensions of a performance (the location of performers as well as their acoustic surroundings), used especially with high-fidelity recordings and reproduction systems (opposed to monophonic).
  • stethoscopic — pertaining to the stethoscope or to stethoscopy.
  • 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.
  • stichomythic — 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.
  • stockpunisht — punished by being put in stocks
  • stoichiology — the branch of biology concerned with the study of the cellular components of animal tissues
  • 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.
  • stretch limo — A stretch limo is a very long and luxurious car in which a rich, famous, or important person is driven somewhere.
  • 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.
  • strobe light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
  • strobe-light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
  • 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.
  • strophiolate — having a strophiole
  • studio couch — an upholstered couch, usually without a back, convertible into a double bed by sliding a bed frame out from beneath it and covering the frame with the mattress that forms the upper thickness of the upholstery.
  • stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
  • subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
  • subhastation — a public auction or sale
  • 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
  • superheroine — a woman noted for courageous acts or nobility of character: Esther and other biblical heroines.
  • superiorship — the state or position of being superior
  • survivorship — the state of being a survivor.
  • sycophantish — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • sycophantism — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • sycophantize — to act the sycophant
  • synarthrodia — synarthrosis.
  • synarthrosis — immovable articulation; a fixed or immovable joint; suture.
  • synchro unit — a type of alternating-current motor designed to maintain continuously, at some remote location, the same rotational angle that may be imposed by force upon the electrically connected rotating element of a similar motor.
  • synchroneity — the state of being synchronous; synchronism.
  • synchronical — happening at the same time
  • synecdochism — the use of synecdoche
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • teleshopping — electronic shopping via videotex or other interactive information service.
  • the brownies — (in the US) the junior division of the Girl Scouts, usually for girls six to eight years old
  • the hoppings — an annual fair in Newcastle
  • the likes of — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
  • the lothians — three historic counties of SE central Scotland (now council areas): East Lothian, West Lothian, and Midlothian (including Edinburgh)
  • the mesozoic — the Mesozoic era
  • the olympics — the Olympic Games
  • the passions — feeling, as opposed to reason
  • the pointers — the two brightest stars in the Plough (Dubhe and Merak), which lie in the direction pointing towards the Pole Star and are therefore used to locate it
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