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12-letter words containing r, o, s, e, h

  • speakerphone — a telephone or telephone attachment equipped with both loudspeaker and microphone, thus permitting the instrument to be used without being held.
  • spectrograph — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • 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.
  • spermophytic — able to produce seed
  • sphenography — the art of writing in cuneiform characters.
  • sphygmometer — a device which measures the rate of the pulse
  • spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
  • spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
  • stakeholders — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
  • starter home — A starter home is a small, new house or flat which is cheap enough for people who are buying their first home to afford.
  • 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.
  • stenothermal — (of animals or plants) able to exist only within a narrow range of temperature
  • stepmotherly — related to or having the characteristics of a stepmother
  • stereochrome — a picture produced by a process in which water glass is used as a vehicle or as a preservative coating.
  • stereochromy — the stereochrome process.
  • stereography — the art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane.
  • 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).
  • stockholders — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
  • stonyhearted — unfeeling; pitiless; cruel
  • store-bought — commercially made rather than homemade.
  • storey house — (in W Africa) a house having more than one storey
  • storm-lashed — badly affected by storms
  • stouthearted — brave and resolute; dauntless.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • strophiolate — having a strophiole
  • subthreshold — (of a stimulus) too weak to produce a response.
  • summer house — outbuilding used for leisure
  • super-smooth — dead-smooth.
  • superheroine — a woman noted for courageous acts or nobility of character: Esther and other biblical heroines.
  • superiorship — the state or position of being superior
  • support hose — elastic stockings worn to reduce pressure on the veins of the leg, esp for people with varicose veins
  • synantherous — with united anthers
  • synarthroses — immovable articulation; a fixed or immovable joint; suture.
  • synchroneity — the state of being synchronous; synchronism.
  • synchroscope — an instrument for determining the difference in phase between two related motions, as those of two aircraft engines or two electric generators.
  • tech support — an advising and troubleshooting service provided by a manufacturer, typically a software or hardware developer, to its customers, often online or on the telephone.
  • technostress — any mental stress caused by (too much) interaction with technology
  • telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • the bosporus — a strait between European and Asian Turkey, linking the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
  • the brownies — (in the US) the junior division of the Girl Scouts, usually for girls six to eight years old
  • 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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