12-letter words containing s, c, h, n
- sucker-punch — to strike (someone) with an unexpected blow.
- sun-drenched — Sun-drenched places have a lot of hot sunshine.
- sunday punch — Boxing. the most powerful and effective punch of a boxer, especially the punch used in trying to gain a knockout.
- supply chain — process of manufacture and sale
- swiss-french — of or relating to a person from French-speaking Switzerland
- sycophantish — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- sycophantism — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- sycophantize — to act the sycophant
- synaesthetic — synesthesia.
- synchro unit — a type of alternating-current motor designed to maintain continuously, at some remote location, the same rotational angle that may be imposed by force upon the electrically connected rotating element of a similar motor.
- synchroflash — of or relating to photography employing a device that synchronizes the photoflash with the shutter.
- synchroneity — the state of being synchronous; synchronism.
- synchronical — happening at the same time
- synchroscope — an instrument for determining the difference in phase between two related motions, as those of two aircraft engines or two electric generators.
- synecdochism — the use of synecdoche
- syntheticism — a synthetic nature or approach
- take chances — to behave in a risky manner
- technologies — the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science.
- technologist — a person who specializes in technology.
- technostress — any mental stress caused by (too much) interaction with technology
- 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 conquest — the conquest by the United Kingdom of French North America, ending in 1763
- the crescent — the emblem of Islam or Turkey
- the distance — the most distant or a faraway part of the visible scene or landscape
- the munchies — a craving for food, esp when induced by alcohol or drugs
- the pandects — a digest of Roman civil law in fifty books, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the 6th cent. a.d.; the Digest
- the scorpion — the constellation Scorpio, the eighth sign of the zodiac
- theocentrism — having God as the focal point of thoughts, interests, and feelings: theocentric philosophy.
- theoclymenus — (in the Odyssey) a seer who foretold the return of Odysseus and the death of Penelope's suitors.
- thessalonica — official name of Salonika.
- thunderstick — bull-roarer.
- topstitching — decorative stitching, usually near and parallel to a seam, sewn so as to be visible on the right side of a garment, shoe, belt, etc.
- torch singer — a singer, especially a woman, who specializes in singing torch songs.
- touch screen — a touch-sensitive display screen on a computer or other electronic device: touching different portions of the screen with a finger or stylus will cause the device to take actions determined by a computer program.
- touch-screen — using touch-sensitive screen
- transhumance — the seasonal migration of livestock, and the people who tend them, between lowlands and adjacent mountains.
- trickishness — the quality of being crafty
- ubermenschen — superman (def 2).
- unbesmirched — to soil; tarnish; discolor.
- unchasteness — lack of chastity
- unchivalrous — having the qualities of chivalry, as courage, courtesy, and loyalty.
- unchristened — not christened
- uncoquettish — not flirtatious
- underclothes — clothes worn under outer clothes.
- 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.
- unhistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.