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

  • short notice — little warning
  • short radius — the perpendicular distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a side
  • short seller — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
  • short shrift — a brief time for confession or absolution given to a condemned prisoner before his or her execution.
  • short splice — a splice used when an increased thickness of the united rope is not objectionable, made by unlaying the rope ends a certain distance, uniting them so that their strands overlap, then tucking each alternately over and under others several times.
  • short-acting — (of a drug) quickly effective, but requiring regularly repeated doses for long-term treatment, being rapidly absorbed, distributed in the body, and excreted
  • short-change — to give less than the correct change to.
  • short-haired — having short hair
  • short-handed — not having the usual or necessary number of workers, helpers, etc.
  • short-spoken — speaking in a short, brief, or curt manner.
  • short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
  • shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
  • shortcomings — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
  • shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
  • shortsighted — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
  • show stopper — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
  • show-stopper — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
  • show-through — the visibility through paper of what is printed on the other side.
  • shower stall — an individual compartment or self-contained unit, having a single shower and accommodating one person.
  • simhat torah — a Jewish festival, celebrated on the 23d day of Tishri, that marks the end of the annual cycle of Torah readings and the beginning of the next cycle
  • sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
  • sixth former — student: 16-18
  • sixty-fourth — next after the sixty-third; being the ordinal number for 64.
  • slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
  • slip through — be undetected
  • smart growth — People such as architects and environmentalists use smart growth to refer to the construction of new buildings and roads within a town or city so that they are close to people's workplaces and mass transit systems and so that open spaces are not built on.
  • smother-love — a relationship between a parent and child in which the parent is over-protective to the extent that the child's normal psychological development is inhibited
  • smotheriness — the condition or state of smothering
  • smotheringly — in a smothering manner
  • snow thrower — snow blower.
  • soccer pitch — the field of play used in soccer
  • soft chancre — chancroid.
  • soft-hearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
  • solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
  • sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • soul brother — a black male, especially a fellow black male.
  • south africa — Republic of, a country in S Africa; member of the Commonwealth of Nations until 1961. 472,000 sq. mi. (1,222,480 sq. km). Capitals: Pretoria and Cape Town.
  • south arabia — Protectorate of, a former protectorate of Great Britain in S Arabia, now part of the Republic of Yemen.
  • south korean — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 36,600 sq. mi. (94,795 sq. km). Capital: Seoul. Compare Korea.
  • south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • southeastern — from the south east
  • southernmost — farthest south.
  • southernness — the state of being southern
  • southernwood — a woody-stemmed wormwood, Artemisia abrotanum, of southern Europe, having aromatic, finely dissected leaves.
  • southwestern — the point or direction midway between south and west. Abbreviation: SW.
  • spatiography — the study of the characteristics of space beyond the atmosphere, including the mapping of the movements of celestial bodies and the recording of electrical, magnetic, and gravitational effects, especially those likely to affect missiles and spacecraft.
  • spectrograph — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • spermophytic — able to produce seed
  • sphygmometer — a device which measures the rate of the pulse
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