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

  • column shift — A column shift is a gearshift lever mounted on the steering column.
  • conchologist — One who collects shells, especially for the purpose of scientific study.
  • coprophilous — growing in or on dung
  • coquettishly — (of a woman) characteristically flirtatious, especially in a teasing, lighthearted manner.
  • corrivalship — the position of a corrival
  • 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.
  • cyclic shift — a transfer of digits from one end of a machine word to the other, retaining the same order in both places.
  • 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
  • death spiral — a period of continuous deterioration that leads ultimately to catastrophic failure or destruction
  • demolishment — to destroy or ruin (a building or other structure), especially on purpose; tear down; raze.
  • desulphurize — to free or become free from sulphur
  • devilishness — The state or quality of being devilish.
  • diaphanously — In a diaphanous manner or to a diaphanous extent.
  • 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.
  • discipleship — (initial capital letter) a member of the Disciples of Christ.
  • disco lights — coloured lights that flash on and off in time to the music at a disco etc
  • disembellish — (transitive) To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn.
  • disestablish — to deprive of the character of being established; cancel; abolish.
  • dishevelling — Present participle of dishevel.
  • dishevelment — to let down, as hair, or wear or let hang in loose disorder, as clothing.
  • dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
  • dishonorably — In a dishonorable manner.
  • 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
  • dress shield — a fabric or plastic pad for attaching to the inside of the underarm of a woman's garment to protect the garment from being soiled by perspiration.
  • drove chisel — a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
  • dyotheletism — the teaching that Christ had both a divine will and a human will
  • dzhugashvili — Iosif Vissarionovich [Russian yaw-syif-vyi-suh-ryi-aw-nuh-vyich] /Russian ˈyɔ syɪf vyɪ sə ryɪˈɔ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Stalin, Joseph.
  • east lothian — a historic county in SE Scotland.
  • ehrlichiosis — (medicine) A tick-borne disease caused by infection with bacteria of the genus Ehrlichia.
  • elephantitis — (US) misconstruction of elephantiasis.
  • ellipsograph — an instrument that draws ellipses
  • embellishing — Present participle of embellish.
  • encephalitis — Inflammation of the brain, caused by infection or an allergic reaction.
  • english bond — a bond used in brickwork that has a course of headers alternating with a course of stretchers
  • english horn — musical instrument: similar to oboe
  • english self — a breed of short-haired guinea pig that is a single colour throughout
  • englishwoman — adult female from England
  • eosinophilia — An increase in the number of eosinophils in the blood, occurring in response to some allergens, drugs, and parasites, and in some types of leukemia.
  • eosinophilic — (of a cell or its contents) readily stained by eosin.
  • epitheliomas — Plural form of epithelioma.
  • eschscholzia — Any of the flowers in the Eschscholzia genus, especially the California poppy (Eschscholzia californica).
  • establishing — Present participle of establish.
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