12-letter words containing s, h, a, n, o
- snatch block — a fairlead having the form of a block that can be opened to receive the bight of a rope at any point along its length.
- snobographer — a person who writes about snobs
- 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
- sounion head — the tip of the Attica peninsula, E central Greece: site of ancient temple ruins.
- south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
- south korean — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 36,600 sq. mi. (94,795 sq. km). Capital: Seoul. Compare Korea.
- south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- southeastern — from the south east
- spanish foot — a carved pyramidal foot having fluted, concave sides usually ending in a scroll at the bottom.
- spanish moss — an epiphytic plant, Tillandsia usneoides, of the southern U.S., having narrow, grayish leaves and growing in long festoons that drape the branches of trees.
- speakerphone — a telephone or telephone attachment equipped with both loudspeaker and microphone, thus permitting the instrument to be used without being held.
- 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
- sphenography — the art of writing in cuneiform characters.
- stakhanovism — a method for increasing production by rewarding individual initiative, developed in the Soviet Union in 1935.
- stakhanovite — a worker in the Soviet Union who regularly surpassed production quotas and was specially honored and rewarded.
- stand a show — to have a chance, esp. a remote one
- stand-offish — If you say that someone is stand-offish, you mean that they behave in a formal and rather unfriendly way.
- steganograph — a piece of coded writing; cipher
- stenographer — a person who specializes in taking dictation in shorthand.
- stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
- stenothermal — (of animals or plants) able to exist only within a narrow range of temperature
- 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
- stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
- strophanthin — a very poisonous, bitter glycoside or mixture of glycosides obtained from the dried, ripe seeds of a strophanthus, especially Strophanthus kombe, used as a cardiac stimulant.
- strophanthus — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Strophanthus, of the dogbane family, chiefly of tropical Africa.
- subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
- subhastation — a public auction or sale
- sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
- sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
- sulphonation — the action or process of converting or being converted into a sulphonate
- sycophantish — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- sycophantism — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- sycophantize — to act the sycophant
- synantherous — with united anthers
- synarthrodia — synarthrosis.
- synarthroses — immovable articulation; a fixed or immovable joint; suture.
- synarthrosis — immovable articulation; a fixed or immovable joint; suture.
- synchroflash — of or relating to photography employing a device that synchronizes the photoflash with the shutter.
- synchronical — happening at the same time
- talking shop — If you say that a conference or a committee is just a talking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- thanks a lot — thank you
- the lothians — three historic counties of SE central Scotland (now council areas): East Lothian, West Lothian, and Midlothian (including Edinburgh)
- the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands