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12-letter words containing r, o, t, h

  • ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
  • right of way — a common law or statutory right granted to a vehicle, as an airplane or boat, to proceed ahead of another.
  • right-footer — (esp in Ireland) a Protestant
  • right-to-die — asserting or advocating the right to refuse extraordinary medical measures to prolong one's life when one is terminally ill or irreversibly comatose: right-to-die laws.
  • robert hooke — Robert, 1635–1703, English philosopher, microscopist, and physicist.
  • rock-shelter — a shallow cave or cavelike area, as one formed by an overhanging cliff or standing rocks, occupied by Stone Age peoples, possibly for extended periods.
  • rohnert park — a city in W California.
  • romp through — If you romp through something, you do it or deal with it quickly and easily.
  • rostropovich — Mstislav (Leopoldovich) [mis-tuh-slahv lee-uh-pohl-duh-vich;; Russian mstyi-slahf lyi-uh-pawl-duh-vyich] /ˈmɪs təˌslɑv ˌli əˈpoʊl də vɪtʃ;; Russian mstyɪˈslɑf lyɪ əˈpɔl də vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1927–2007, Soviet cellist and conductor (husband of Galina Vishnevskaya).
  • router patch — a plywood panel patch with parallel sides and rounded ends.
  • run off with — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
  • run the show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
  • run to earth — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
  • rush through — If you rush something through, you deal with it quickly so that it is ready in a shorter time than usual.
  • rust-through — an act or instance of rusting: The body of the car is protected against rust-through.
  • ryobu shinto — a fusion of Shinto and Buddhism, which flourished in Japan in the 13th century
  • sacher torte — a chocolate cake covered with apricot jam and chocolate icing, usually served with whipped cream.
  • sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
  • saprophytism — living and feeding on dead organic matter
  • say the word — If someone says the word, they give their approval as a sign that something should start to happen.
  • scatter shot — shot prepared for a weapon having a rifled bore or barrel.
  • schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
  • scotch broom — the broom, Cytisus scoparius.
  • scotch broth — a thick soup prepared from mutton, vegetables, and barley.
  • scotch grain — a coarse, pebble-grained finish given to heavy leather, esp. for men's shoes
  • scotch-irish — (used with a plural verb) the descendants of the Lowland Scots who were settled in Ulster in the 17th century.
  • scratch coat — (in plastering) a rough, deeply scored first coat upon which the brown coat is laid.
  • scratchboard — a cardboard coated with impermeable white clay and covered by a layer of ink that is scratched or scraped in patterns revealing the white surface below.
  • scratchproof — resistant to scratches.
  • second birth — spiritual rebirth.
  • self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • sell-through — quantity of direct sales made
  • sepher torah — a scroll of the Torah, typically of parchment, from which the designated Parashah is chanted or read on the prescribed days.
  • servitorship — the office or position of a servitor; the condition of being a servitor
  • share option — A share option is an opportunity for the employees of a company to buy shares at a special price.
  • shark patrol — a watch for sharks kept by an aircraft flying over beaches used by swimmers
  • sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
  • sharpshooter — a person skilled in shooting, especially with a rifle.
  • shatter cone — a cone-shaped fragment of rock, probably formed by violent shock waves, as from meteoritic impact or atomic explosions
  • shatterproof — designed or made to resist shattering: shatterproof glass in automobile windows.
  • sheet anchor — Nautical. a large anchor used only in cases of emergency.
  • shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
  • ship's store — a retail store aboard a navy ship that sells toiletries, cigarettes, etc., to the ship's personnel.
  • shock troops — soldiers trained to attack
  • shoe leather — treated animal skin used for shoes
  • shooting war — open conflict between hostile nations involving direct military engagements.
  • shop steward — commerce: union rep
  • shore patrol — (often initial capital letters) members of an organization in the U.S. Navy having police duties similar to those performed by military police. Abbreviation: SP.
  • short ballot — a ballot containing only candidates for the most important legislative and executive posts, leaving judicial and lesser administrative posts to be filled by appointment.
  • short column — a column whose relative dimensions ensure that when it is overloaded it fails by crushing, rather than buckling
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