12-letter words containing r, e, f, s, h
- shelf talker — a cardboard, paper, or plastic advertisement of a product designed to be attached to a shelf on which the product is exhibited for sale.
- shellfishery — the industry and commerce of catching, processing, and selling shellfish; raising shellfish for commercial purposes.
- shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
- shingle roof — a roof covered with thin rectangular tiles, esp made of wood, that are laid with others in overlapping rows
- shirt-lifter — a homosexual
- shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
- shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
- sixth former — student: 16-18
- soft chancre — chancroid.
- soft-hearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
- sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- spearfishing — any of several fishes of the genus Tetrapturus, resembling the sailfish but having the first dorsal fin much less developed: inhabiting all seas, but rare.
- sprachgefuhl — a sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
- squirrelfish — any of several brightly colored, nocturnal fishes of the family Holocentridae, inhabiting shallow waters of tropical reefs, especially the reddish Holocentrus ascensionis of the West Indies, armed with sharp spines and scales.
- stage fright — nervousness felt by a performer or speaker when appearing before an audience.
- swiss-french — of or relating to a person from French-speaking Switzerland
- the fair sex — women collectively
- the far east — the countries of E Asia, usually including China, Japan, North and South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines: sometimes extended to include all territories east of Afghanistan
- the far west — the area of the United States west of the Great Plains
- the flickers — the cinema
- the frizzies — the condition of having frizzy hair
- thunderflash — a pyrotechnic device which is noisy, but not dangerous, and which is used in military exercises
- truthfulness — telling the truth, especially habitually: a truthful person.
- typhus-fever — an acute, infectious disease caused by several species of Rickettsia, transmitted by lice and fleas, and characterized by acute prostration, headache, and a peculiar eruption of reddish spots on the body.
- un-furbished — to restore to freshness of appearance or good condition (often followed by up): to furbish a run-down neighborhood; to furbish up one's command of a foreign language.
- undersheriff — a sheriff's deputy, especially one on whom the sheriff's duties devolve when the office is vacant.
- unfranchised — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- unrefreshing — not refreshing, rejuvenating, or invigorating
- unwished-for — undesired; unwelcome: an unwished-for occurrence.
- wethersfield — a town in central Connecticut.
- wrathfulness — The quality of being wrathful; wrath.