12-letter words containing s, h, i, t, o, n
- school night — any night of the week that precedes a day of school
- scotch grain — a coarse, pebble-grained finish given to heavy leather, esp. for men's shoes
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- semi-monthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
- share option — A share option is an opportunity for the employees of a company to buy shares at a special price.
- shipping ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- shoot a line — to try to create a false image, as by boasting or exaggerating
- shooting box — a small house or lodge for use during the shooting season.
- shooting war — open conflict between hostile nations involving direct military engagements.
- short notice — little warning
- short-acting — (of a drug) quickly effective, but requiring regularly repeated doses for long-term treatment, being rapidly absorbed, distributed in the body, and excreted
- short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
- shortcomings — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- showstopping — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
- silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
- sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
- siphonostele — a hollow tube of vascular tissue enclosing a pith and embedded in ground tissue.
- sixth column — the persons residing in a country at war who are devoted to aiding the fifth column in its activities, especially by lowering morale, spreading rumors, etc.
- slot machine — a gambling machine operated by inserting coins into a slot and pulling a handle that activates a set of spinning symbols on wheels, the final alignment of which determines the payoff that is released into a receptacle at the bottom.
- smotheriness — the condition or state of smothering
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- snapshotting — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
- solzhenitsyn — Alexander or Aleksandr (Isayevich) [al-ig-zan-der ee-sahy-uh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr ee-sah-yi-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər iˈsaɪ ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr iˈsɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1918–2008, Russian novelist: Nobel prize 1970; in the U.S. 1974–94.
- soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
- south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- spanish foot — a carved pyramidal foot having fluted, concave sides usually ending in a scroll at the bottom.
- sphacelation — the process of mortification
- spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- splotchiness — the state or condition of being splotchy
- sportfishing — fishing with a rod and reel for sport, especially for saltwater sport fish from a motorboat.
- spotlighting — a strong, focused light thrown upon a particular spot, as on a small area of a stage or in a television studio, for making some object, person, or group especially conspicuous.
- stakhanovism — a method for increasing production by rewarding individual initiative, developed in the Soviet Union in 1935.
- stakhanovite — a worker in the Soviet Union who regularly surpassed production quotas and was specially honored and rewarded.
- stand-offish — If you say that someone is stand-offish, you mean that they behave in a formal and rather unfriendly way.
- stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stereophonic — pertaining to a system of sound recording or reproduction using two or more separate channels to produce a more realistic effect by capturing the spatial dimensions of a performance (the location of performers as well as their acoustic surroundings), used especially with high-fidelity recordings and reproduction systems (opposed to monophonic).
- stockpunisht — punished by being put in stocks
- 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.
- strophanthin — a very poisonous, bitter glycoside or mixture of glycosides obtained from the dried, ripe seeds of a strophanthus, especially Strophanthus kombe, used as a cardiac stimulant.
- subhastation — a public auction or sale
- sulphonation — the action or process of converting or being converted into a sulphonate
- sycophantish — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- sycophantism — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- sycophantize — to act the sycophant
- synarthrodia — synarthrosis.
- synarthrosis — immovable articulation; a fixed or immovable joint; suture.