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12-letter words containing s, h, a, d, e, t

  • steam-heated — heated by steam.
  • stepdaughter — a daughter of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • stone-washed — Stone-washed jeans are jeans which have been specially washed with small pieces of stone so that when you buy them they are fairly pale and soft.
  • stonyhearted — unfeeling; pitiless; cruel
  • storm-lashed — badly affected by storms
  • stouthearted — brave and resolute; dauntless.
  • straightbred — (of animals) purebred; having parents of the same breed
  • straightedge — a bar or strip of wood, plastic, or metal having at least one long edge of sufficiently reliable straightness for use in drawing or testing straight lines, plane surfaces, etc.
  • stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
  • strike hands — to show agreement by clasping hands
  • stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
  • sudden death — an overtime period in which a tied contest is won and play is stopped immediately after one of the contestants scores, as in football, or goes ahead, as in golf.
  • synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
  • the ardennes — a wooded plateau in SE Belgium, Luxembourg, and NE France: scene of heavy fighting in both World Wars
  • the deceased — the dead person or persons
  • the dingbats — delirium tremens
  • the disabled — those who are physically or mentally disabled; the handicapped
  • the distance — the most distant or a faraway part of the visible scene or landscape
  • the dustheap — obscurity or oblivion
  • the east end — a densely populated part of E London containing former industrial and dock areas, now extensively redeveloped for offices
  • the herdsman — the constellation Boötes
  • the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
  • the midlands — the central counties of England, including Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, the former West Midlands metropolitan county, and Worcestershire: characterized by manufacturing industries
  • the nearside — the side of a vehicle normally nearer the kerb (in Britain, the left side)
  • the old days — the past
  • the pandects — a digest of Roman civil law in fifty books, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the 6th cent. a.d.; the Digest
  • thermostated — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
  • third estate — the third of the three estates or political orders: the commons in France or England. Compare estate (def 5).
  • third stream — a style of music that uses features of both jazz and classical music in an attempt to develop a new and distinctive musical idiom.
  • thitherwards — in that direction
  • thunderflash — a pyrotechnic device which is noisy, but not dangerous, and which is used in military exercises
  • trade school — a high school giving instruction chiefly in the skilled trades.
  • transit shed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.
  • triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
  • undispatched — not dispatched; not delivered or sent out
  • watchstander — (US) A person who is on watch on a ship.
  • water shield — Also called water target. an aquatic plant, Brasenia schreberi, of the water lily family, having purple flowers, floating, elliptic leaves, and a jellylike coating on the underwater stems and roots.
  • wattenscheid — an industrial town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia east of Essen
  • white-washed — a composition, as of lime and water or of whiting, size, and water, used for whitening walls, woodwork, etc.
  • whitherwards — toward what or which place
  • windcheaters — Plural form of windcheater.
  • zantedeschia — (botany) Any of the genus Zantedeschia of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southern Africa.
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