12-letter words containing s, h, e, l, o, u
- pyrosulphate — any salt of pyrosulphuric acid
- quelquechose — kickshaw.
- reupholstery — the materials used to cushion and cover furniture.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- sell-through — quantity of direct sales made
- shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
- shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
- shoulder pad — clothing: insert in shoulder
- shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
- shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
- silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
- silhouettist — a creator of silhouette portraits
- slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
- slothfulness — sluggardly; indolent; lazy.
- soufflé dish — A dish for making souffles
- soul brother — a black male, especially a fellow black male.
- south euclid — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- south hadley — a city in W Massachusetts.
- south platte — a river flowing NE from central Colorado to the Platte River in W Nebraska. 424 miles (683 km) long.
- subthreshold — (of a stimulus) too weak to produce a response.
- 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
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- the absolute — ultimate reality regarded as uncaused, unmodified, unified and complete, timeless, etc.
- the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
- the troubles — political unrest or public disturbances
- theoclymenus — (in the Odyssey) a seer who foretold the return of Odysseus and the death of Penelope's suitors.
- thiosulphate — any salt of thiosulphuric acid
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- tricephalous — with three heads
- troubleshoot — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
- underclothes — clothes worn under outer clothes.
- unhandsomely — unattractively
- unhospitable — not hospitable
- unhydrolysed — not having undergone hydrolysis
- unpolishable — incapable of being made smooth or shiny
- unshadowable — not able to be shadowed
- upper school — a scholastic division, especially in a private school, including the terminal secondary grades.
- whole-souled — wholehearted; hearty.
- wilton house — a mansion in Wilton in Wiltshire: built for the 1st Earl of Pembroke in the 16th century; rebuilt after a fire in 1647 by Inigo Jones and John Webb; altered in the 19th century by James Wyatt; landscaped grounds include a famous Palladian bridge
- youth hostel — hostel (def 1).
- youthfulness — characterized by youth; young.