12-letter words containing s, a, c, h
- bag snatcher — a thief whose main tactic is to grab women's handbags and run off with them
- banach space — a vector space on which a norm is defined that is complete.
- bandersnatch — a fictional creature created by Lewis Carroll in his poem Jabberwocky, and appearing also in The Hunting of the Snark and Through the Looking-Glass
- bank charges — penalties charged by a bank to a customer, for example when the customer's account is overdrawn or if a cheque is not honoured
- basic weight — basis weight.
- basket catch — a catch made with open glove with the palm up and the wrist kept close to and in front of the body.
- basket chair — a chair made of wickerwork; a wicker chair
- bathyscaphes — Plural form of bathyscaphe.
- beachcombers — Plural form of beachcomber.
- beaumarchais — Pierre Augustin Caron de (pjɛr oɡystɛ̃ karɔ̃ də). 1732–99, French dramatist, noted for his comedies The Barber of Seville (1775) and The Marriage of Figaro (1784)
- biomechanics — the study of the mechanics of the movement of living organisms
- bishop's-cap — any of a genus (Mitella) of small woodland plants of the saxifrage family, with two-lobed seedcases shaped like a bishop's hat
- black cohosh — a plant of the ranunculaceous family, Cimicifuga racemosa, which is used as a natural alternative to hormone replacement therapy
- blue catfish — a large freshwater catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, that is a popular food fish in the states of the Mississippi River valley.
- board school — (formerly) a school managed by a board elected by local ratepayers
- book matches — safety matches made of paper and fastened into a small cardboard folder
- bounce flash — a flash lamp designed to produce a bounced flash.
- brachycerous — (of insects) having short antennae
- braunschweig — Brunswick
- bronchospasm — an abnormal contraction of the bronchi resulting in restriction of the airway
- buccaneerish — of or relating to a buccaneer
- bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
- cable stitch — a pattern or series of knitting stitches producing a design like a twisted rope
- cable-stitch — a series of stitches used in knitting to produce a cable effect.
- cacophonious — cacophonous
- cadent house — any of the four houses that precede the angles: the third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses, which correspond, respectively, to neighborhood and relatives, work and health, philosophy and foreign travel, and secret matters and service to others.
- cadet school — a training establishment for cadets in the army
- calisthenics — Calisthenics are simple exercises that you can do to keep fit and healthy.
- callisthenes — c360–327 b.c, Greek philosopher: chronicled Alexander the Great's conquests.
- callisthenic — Alternative spelling of calisthenic.
- camel's hair — the hair of the camel
- camel's-hair — made of camel's hair.
- campshedding — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
- candlefishes — Plural form of candlefish.
- canvas chair — a chair in which the seat and back are made from canvas
- canvas shoes — soft shoes with a canvas upper
- cape agulhas — a headland in South Africa, the southernmost point of the African continent
- capital ship — one of the largest and most heavily armed ships in a naval fleet
- car-crash tv — television programmes that show deliberately controversial, disturbing, or horrific material
- carbohydrase — a digestive enzyme that breaks down carbohydrates through hydrolysis
- carbon brush — a small block of carbon used to convey current between the stationary and moving parts of an electric generator, motor, etc
- cardan shaft — A cardan shaft or cardan drive is a propeller shaft fitted with universal joints at each end.
- cardinalfish — any of the perchlike fishes of the family Apogonidae, many species of which are bright red with black markings.
- cardinalship — The office (or term of office) of a cardinal.
- cardiographs — Plural form of cardiograph.
- carpet shark — any of various sharks of the family Orectolobidae, having two dorsal fins and a patterned back, typically marked with white and brown
- carpophagous — feeding on fruit
- cartoonishly — in a cartoonish manner
- case history — A person's case history is the record of past events or problems that have affected them, especially their medical history.
- casehardened — Simple past tense and past participle of caseharden.