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

  • needle-sharp — very sharp
  • newfashioned — Alternative form of new-fashioned.
  • noahide laws — the seven laws given to Noah after the Flood, which decree the establishment of a fair system of justice in society, and prohibit idolatry, blasphemy, murder, adultery and incest, robbery, and the eating of flesh taken from a living animal
  • oldfashioned — Rare spelling of old-fashioned.
  • on the cards — likely
  • onion-shaped — bulb-shaped; shaped like an onion
  • parasphenoid — a bone next to the sphenoid bone in the skull of some animals
  • red bandfish — a fish, Cepola haastii, found on the inner continental shelf around New Zealand: family Cepolidae
  • rhode island — US state
  • rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
  • scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
  • schmalkalden — a town in central Germany: a league to defend Protestantism formed here 1531.
  • schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
  • scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
  • secd machine — Stack Environment Control Dump machine
  • section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
  • shadow dance — a dance in which shadows of the dancers are cast on a screen.
  • shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • sherardizing — to coat (steel) with a thin cladding of zinc by heating in a mixture of sand and powdered zinc.
  • shevardnadze — Eduard A [ed-werd;; Russian ed-wahrt] /ˈɛd wərd;; Russian ɛdˈwɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1928–2014, Soviet foreign minister 1985–91; president of his native Georgian Republic 1995–2003.
  • short-handed — not having the usual or necessary number of workers, helpers, etc.
  • shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
  • shoshone dam — a dam on the Shoshone River. 328 feet (100 meters) high.
  • snake's head — checkered lily.
  • snake's-head — checkered lily.
  • snake-hipped — having thin, sinuous hips.
  • 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.
  • spearheading — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
  • starchedness — the condition or quality of being starched
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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 dingbats — delirium tremens
  • the distance — the most distant or a faraway part of the visible scene or landscape
  • 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 pandects — a digest of Roman civil law in fifty books, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the 6th cent. a.d.; the Digest
  • thunderflash — a pyrotechnic device which is noisy, but not dangerous, and which is used in military exercises
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