12-letter words containing s, h, i, f
- solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
- soufflé dish — A dish for making souffles
- south africa — Republic of, a country in S Africa; member of the Commonwealth of Nations until 1961. 472,000 sq. mi. (1,222,480 sq. km). Capitals: Pretoria and Cape Town.
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- space flight — journey into outer space
- spanish foot — a carved pyramidal foot having fluted, concave sides usually ending in a scroll at the bottom.
- spearfishing — any of several fishes of the genus Tetrapturus, resembling the sailfish but having the first dorsal fin much less developed: inhabiting all seas, but rare.
- speechifying — Speechifying is the making of speeches, especially because you want to appear important.
- spin fishing — spinning (def 3).
- sportfishing — fishing with a rod and reel for sport, especially for saltwater sport fish from a motorboat.
- sprightfully — in a sprightful manner
- squirrelfish — any of several brightly colored, nocturnal fishes of the family Holocentridae, inhabiting shallow waters of tropical reefs, especially the reddish Holocentrus ascensionis of the West Indies, armed with sharp spines and scales.
- stage fright — nervousness felt by a performer or speaker when appearing before an audience.
- stand-offish — If you say that someone is stand-offish, you mean that they behave in a formal and rather unfriendly way.
- straight off — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- swiss-french — of or relating to a person from French-speaking Switzerland
- the fair sex — women collectively
- the flickers — the cinema
- the frizzies — the condition of having frizzy hair
- the likes of — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
- the sniffles — a cold in the head
- thiosulfuric — of or derived from thiosulfuric acid.
- thirty-first — next after the thirtieth; being the ordinal number for 31.
- 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.
- tight-fisted — parsimonious; stingy; tight.
- to fight shy — If you fight shy of something, you try very hard to avoid it.
- ufo sighting — the sighting of a UFO
- 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.
- undersheriff — a sheriff's deputy, especially one on whom the sheriff's duties devolve when the office is vacant.
- unfranchised — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- unrefreshing — not refreshing, rejuvenating, or invigorating
- unwished-for — undesired; unwelcome: an unwished-for occurrence.
- unworshipful — not worshipful; not showing reverence or admiration
- walking fish — any of various fishes able to survive and move about for short periods of time on land, as the mudskipper or climbing perch.
- washfountain — a large, usually circular wash basin, as in an industrial plant, in which a spray of water activated by foot pedal allows several workers to wash simultaneously.
- wethersfield — a town in central Connecticut.
- with-profits — A with-profits savings scheme or financial plan is one in which the people who put money into the scheme receive extra money each year based on how successful the investment has been.
- wolf whistle — a wolf call made by whistling, often characterized by two sliding sounds, a peal up to a higher note and then one up to a lower note and down.
- wolf-whistle — If someone wolf-whistles, they make a whistling sound with a short rising note and a longer falling note. Some men wolf-whistle at a woman to show that they think she is attractive, and some women find this offensive.
- worshipfully — In a worshipful manner; reverentially.