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12-letter words containing s, h, i, a

  • corrivalship — the position of a corrival
  • cosmographic — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
  • craftmanship — Alternative form of craftsmanship.
  • crazy eights — a card game played by two or more persons with a 52-card deck, the object of which is to be the first to get rid of one's hand by successively playing a card of the same suit or denomination as that played by the preceding player, with an eight counting for any desired suit.
  • crushability — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
  • cutlass fish — any compressed, ribbonlike fish of the genus Trichiurus, having daggerlike teeth.
  • cyanohydrins — Plural form of cyanohydrin.
  • cytochalasin — any of a group of metabolites derived from fungus that interfere with cell processes
  • damselfishes — Plural form of damselfish.
  • daniel shays — Daniel, 1747–1825, American Revolutionary War soldier: leader of a popular insurrection (Shays' Rebellion) in Massachusetts 1786–87.
  • day hospital — part of a hospital that offers therapeutic services, where patients usually attend all day but go home or to a hospital ward at night
  • de-emphasize — to remove emphasis from
  • death duties — Death duties were a tax which had to be paid on the money and property of someone who had died. This tax is now called inheritance tax.
  • death spiral — a period of continuous deterioration that leads ultimately to catastrophic failure or destruction
  • debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
  • deemphasized — Simple past tense and past participle of deemphasize.
  • deemphasizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deemphasize.
  • dehumanising — Present participle of dehumanise.
  • demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
  • demographies — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
  • diaphanously — In a diaphanous manner or to a diaphanous extent.
  • diastrophism — the process of movement and deformation of the earth's crust that gives rise to large-scale features such as continents, ocean basins, and mountains
  • dichromatism — the quality or condition of being dichromatic
  • dictatorship — Dictatorship is government by a dictator.
  • dilettantish — a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.
  • diminishable — That may be diminished.
  • ding an sich — thing-in-itself.
  • diphosphates — a pyrophosphate.
  • disaccharide — any of a group of carbohydrates, as sucrose or lactose, that yield monosaccharides on hydrolysis.
  • disauthorize — to take authority away from (a person or organization)
  • discographer — a person who compiles discographies.
  • discographic — of or relating to a discography
  • disenchanted — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
  • disenchanter — One who disenchants.
  • disestablish — to deprive of the character of being established; cancel; abolish.
  • disfranchise — to deprive (a person) of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote.
  • dish antenna — an open, relatively shallow container of pottery, glass, metal, wood, etc., used for various purposes, especially for holding or serving food.
  • dishabituate — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
  • disharmonize — (intransitive) To cause disorder.
  • disheartened — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
  • dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
  • dishonorably — In a dishonorable manner.
  • dispatch box — a case or box used to hold valuables or documents, esp official state documents
  • dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
  • display hack — (graphics)   A program with the same approximate purpose as a kaleidoscope: to make pretty pictures. Famous display hacks include munching squares, smoking clover, the BSD Unix "rain(6)" program, "worms(6)" on miscellaneous Unixes, and the X "kaleid(1)" program. Display hacks can also be implemented without programming by creating text files containing numerous escape sequences for interpretation by a video terminal; one notable example displayed, on any VT100, a Christmas tree with twinkling lights and a toy train circling its base. The hack value of a display hack is proportional to the aesthetic value of the images times the cleverness of the algorithm divided by the size of the code. Synonym psychedelicware.
  • distraughtly — distracted; deeply agitated.
  • ditheistical — of or relating to ditheism, ditheistic
  • dithyrambist — a writer or performer of dithyrambs
  • duncan smith — (George) Iain. born 1954, British politician; leader of the Conservative Party (2001–03); secretary of state for work and pensions (2010–2016)
  • dysaesthesia — a disagreeable sensation such as burning or itching arising from impairment of the nervous system
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