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12-letter words containing s, h, i, d, e

  • street child — Street children are homeless children who live outdoors in a city and live by begging or stealing.
  • strike hands — to show agreement by clasping hands
  • stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
  • stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.
  • 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
  • swedish mile — a unit of length used in Sweden, equal to 10 kilometres
  • synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
  • synecdochism — the use of synecdoche
  • 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 hebrides — a group of over 500 islands off the W coast of Scotland: separated by the North Minch, Little Minch, and the Sea of the Hebrides: the chief islands are Skye, Raasay, Rum, Eigg, Coll, Tiree, Mull, Jura, Colonsay, and Islay (Inner Hebrides), and Lewis with Harris, North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist, and Barra (Outer Hebrides)
  • 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)
  • theodosius i — ("the Great") a.d. 346?–395, Roman emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 379–395.
  • thin-skinned — having a thin skin.
  • third estate — the third of the three estates or political orders: the commons in France or England. Compare estate (def 5).
  • third person — the grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to anyone or anything other than the speaker or the one (third person singular) or ones (third person plural) being addressed.
  • third sector — the segment of a nation's economy that is made up of neither public nor business concerns, as nonprofit health or educational institutions.
  • 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.
  • this side of — If you say that something will not happen this side of a date or event, you mean that it will not happen before that date or event.
  • thitherwards — in that direction
  • thunderstick — bull-roarer.
  • tight-fisted — parsimonious; stingy; tight.
  • 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.
  • un-furbished — to restore to freshness of appearance or good condition (often followed by up): to furbish a run-down neighborhood; to furbish up one's command of a foreign language.
  • unadmonished — not admonished, counselled, or warned
  • unbesmirched — to soil; tarnish; discolor.
  • unchristened — not christened
  • undernourish — to deprive of or fail to provide with nutrients essential for health and growth
  • undersheriff — a sheriff's deputy, especially one on whom the sheriff's duties devolve when the office is vacant.
  • undershirted — wearing an undershirt
  • undiminished — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
  • undischarged — gun: not let off
  • undispatched — not dispatched; not delivered or sent out
  • unemphasized — to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
  • unfranchised — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • unvanquished — to conquer or subdue by superior force, as in battle.
  • unwished-for — undesired; unwelcome: an unwished-for occurrence.
  • unworshipped — not worshipped; not admired or revered
  • 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
  • weighbridges — Plural form of weighbridge.
  • weightedness — The condition of being weighted.
  • wethersfield — a town in central Connecticut.
  • whipstitched — Simple past tense and past participle of whipstitch.
  • 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
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