12-letter words containing s, e, t, h, r
- run the show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
- rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
- sacher torte — a chocolate cake covered with apricot jam and chocolate icing, usually served with whipped cream.
- sacred heart — the physical heart of Jesus, to which special devotion is offered as a symbol of His love and redemptive sacrifice.
- saint helier — a British island in the English Channel: the largest of the Channel Islands. 44 sq. mi. (116 sq. km). Capital: St. Helier.
- saint hubert — a borough in S Quebec, Canada, just E of Montreal.
- saint-hubert — town in S Quebec, Canada: part of metropolitan Montreal: pop. 77,000
- 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.
- scattergraph — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
- schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
- scratch file — A scratch file is a temporary computer file which you use as a work area or as a store while a program is operating.
- scratch line — a line that marks the start of a race.
- scratch race — a race in which all contestants start on equal terms
- scratch tape — a magnetic tape that is used for temporary storage, which may be erased and re-used
- scratch test — a test for a suspected allergy in which the skin is scratched and an allergen applied to the area, redness indicating a positive reaction.
- scratchplate — a plastic or metal plate attached to the front of a guitar to protect it from pick scratches
- screw thread — Also called worm. the helical ridge of a screw.
- search party — a group of persons conducting an organized search for someone or something lost or hidden.
- 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.
- sergeantfish — the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
- servitorship — the office or position of a servitor; the condition of being a servitor
- set straight — to give the correct facts to; inform properly
- shamateurism — a sports term referring to a state in which an athlete is classified as an amateur but acts like a professional, usually by raising money
- share market — a highly organized market facilitating the purchase and sale of securities and operated by professional stockbrokers and market makers according to fixed rules
- share option — A share option is an opportunity for the employees of a company to buy shares at a special price.
- shareability — the state or property of being able to be shared
- 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.
- sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
- 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.
- shear stress — the external force acting on an object or surface parallel to the slope or plane in which it lies; the stress tending to produce shear.
- sheet anchor — Nautical. a large anchor used only in cases of emergency.
- sheet feeder — a device that feeds paper into a printer one sheet at a time.
- shelf talker — a cardboard, paper, or plastic advertisement of a product designed to be attached to a shelf on which the product is exhibited for sale.
- shelter belt — a row of trees planted to protect an area from the wind
- shelter deck — a weather deck covering a space not considered fully watertight.
- shelter tent — a small, two-person, military tent consisting of two halves (shelter halves) buttoned or tied together, held up by accessory ropes and poles.
- 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.
- shirt jacket — a shirtlike jacket.
- shirt-lifter — a homosexual
- shirt-sleeve — not wearing a jacket; informally dressed: a shirt-sleeve mob.
- shirt-tailed — (of a garment) having a shirt-tail
- shirtsleeved — not wearing a jacket or coat
- shirtwaister — a tailored blouse or shirt worn by women.