12-letter words containing s, h, i, f
- misfashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of misfashion.
- moschiferous — giving off or producing musk
- mosquitofish — any of several fishes that feed on mosquito larvae, as Gambusia affinis, found in the southeastern U.S., now introduced into other parts of the world for mosquito control.
- neckerchiefs — Plural form of neckerchief.
- needlefishes — Plural form of needlefish.
- newfashioned — Alternative form of new-fashioned.
- of o's birth — The country, town, or village of your birth is the place where you were born.
- office hours — hours when a business is open
- oldfashioned — Rare spelling of old-fashioned.
- ostrich fern — a tall North American fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, with large mature leaves that resemble ostrich plumes, a popular landscaping plant whose curled new leaves, called fiddleheads, are eaten as a vegetable.
- out of sight — Slang. fantastic; great; marvelous: an out-of-sight guitarist.
- out-of-sight — Slang. fantastic; great; marvelous: an out-of-sight guitarist.
- overfinished — having an excessively polished finish
- overflourish — to flourish excessively
- photo finish — a finish of a race in which two or more contestants are so close to the finish line that reference to a photograph of the finish is necessary to determine the winner.
- photo-finish — If the end of a race is a photo-finish, two or more of the competitors cross the finishing line so close together that a photograph of the finish has to be examined to decide who has won.
- photofission — nuclear fission induced by the absorption of a high-energy photon.
- rabbitfishes — Plural form of rabbitfish.
- rainbow fish — guppy.
- red bandfish — a fish, Cepola haastii, found on the inner continental shelf around New Zealand: family Cepolidae
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- refreshingly — having the power to restore freshness, vitality, energy, etc.: a refreshing nap.
- refurnishing — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- reichsfuhrer — the title of the chief of the Schutzstaffel.
- renfrewshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
- safari shirt — a shirt resembling a bush jacket.
- safety chain — a chain on the fastening of a bracelet, watch, etc, to ensure that it cannot open enough to fall off accidentally
- scabbardfish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
- schrieffer's — John Robert, born 1931, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1972.
- scorpionfish — any of several tropical and temperate marine scorpaenid fishes, especially members of the genus Scorpaena, many having venomous dorsal spines.
- scratch file — A scratch file is a temporary computer file which you use as a work area or as a store while a program is operating.
- sea crawfish — spiny lobster
- sea crayfish — spiny lobster.
- self-healing — curing or curative; prescribed or helping to heal.
- self-heating — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- self-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
- semifinished — partially or almost finished.
- sergeantfish — the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
- shaving foam — lather used for shaving
- sheath knife — a knife carried in a sheath.
- shellfishery — the industry and commerce of catching, processing, and selling shellfish; raising shellfish for commercial purposes.
- shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
- shingle roof — a roof covered with thin rectangular tiles, esp made of wood, that are laid with others in overlapping rows
- shirt-lifter — a homosexual
- shoo-fly pie — an open pie filled with a sweet crumb and molasses mixture and baked.
- short shrift — a brief time for confession or absolution given to a condemned prisoner before his or her execution.
- simian shelf — a shelflike thickening along the inside of the mandible, characteristic of the anthropoid apes.
- sixth former — student: 16-18
- sixty-fourth — next after the sixty-third; being the ordinal number for 64.
- sniffishness — the quality or characteristic of being sniffy