12-letter words containing s, a, c, h, e, n
- secd machine — Stack Environment Control Dump machine
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- shadow dance — a dance in which shadows of the dancers are cast on a screen.
- shatter cone — a cone-shaped fragment of rock, probably formed by violent shock waves, as from meteoritic impact or atomic explosions
- sheet anchor — Nautical. a large anchor used only in cases of emergency.
- short-change — to give less than the correct change to.
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- sign a check — When you sign a check , you write your name on it in a special space in order to validate it.
- slot machine — a gambling machine operated by inserting coins into a slot and pulling a handle that activates a set of spinning symbols on wheels, the final alignment of which determines the payoff that is released into a receptacle at the bottom.
- small change — coins of small denomination.
- snowshoe cat — a breed of cat with soft short hair, blue eyes, an inverted V-shaped marking on the face, and white feet
- soft chancre — chancroid.
- sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
- spanish rice — rice prepared with chopped onions, tomatoes, green peppers, and sometimes diced ham, seasoned with cayenne pepper and mixed with butter.
- 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.
- sphacelation — the process of mortification
- sphincterial — relating to a sphincter
- spin machine — an organization or group of people acting together to present news or information in a way that creates a particular desired impression
- spinach beet — chard, a plant cultivated for its edible leaves
- sprechgesang — a vocal style intermediate between speech and singing but without exact pitch intonation.
- starchedness — the condition or quality of being starched
- stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stern chaser — a cannon mounted at or near the stern of a sailing ship, facing aft.
- stern-chaser — a cannon mounted at or near the stern of a sailing ship, facing aft.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- straightneck — a variety of summer squash related to the crookneck but not having a recurved neck.
- sycophantize — to act the sycophant
- synaesthetic — synesthesia.
- take chances — to behave in a risky manner
- tenths-place — next after ninth; being the ordinal number for ten.
- the analects — a collection of Confucius' teachings
- the ancients — the people who lived in ancient times
- the distance — the most distant or a faraway part of the visible scene or landscape
- the pandects — a digest of Roman civil law in fifty books, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the 6th cent. a.d.; the Digest
- thessalonica — official name of Salonika.
- transhumance — the seasonal migration of livestock, and the people who tend them, between lowlands and adjacent mountains.
- unchasteness — lack of chastity
- undischarged — gun: not let off
- undispatched — not dispatched; not delivered or sent out
- unfranchised — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- unhysterical — not showing or suggesting any hysteria; controlled; sensible; calm;
- unsearchable — not searchable; not lending itself to research or exploration; not to be understood by searching; hidden; unfathomable; mysterious: the unsearchable ways of the universe.
- unsearchably — in an unsearchable manner
- unstanchable — unstoppable
- vereshchagin — Vasili Vasilievich [vuh-syee-lyee vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /vʌˈsyi lyi vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1842–1904, Russian painter.
- watchfulness — vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.
- watchstander — (US) A person who is on watch on a ship.
- wattenscheid — an industrial town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia east of Essen
- windcheaters — Plural form of windcheater.
- with menaces — If someone commits the crime of demanding money with menaces, they threaten to cause harm unless they are given the money.