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12-letter words containing s, h, o, e

  • cosmochemist — a student of cosmochemistry
  • cosmographer — (astrophysics) A scientist specializing in understanding and describing the nature of the universe.
  • costophrenic — Synonym of phrenicocostal.
  • countershaft — an intermediate shaft that is driven by, but rotates in the opposite direction to, a main shaft, esp in a gear train
  • crash course — A crash course in a particular subject is a short course in which you are taught basic facts or skills, for example before you start a new job.
  • criosphinxes — Plural form of criosphinx.
  • crossbencher — A member of the British parliament, or a similar assembly, who does not vote regularly with either the government or the main opposition party.
  • crosschecked — Simple past tense and past participle of crosscheck.
  • crosspatches — Plural form of crosspatch.
  • custom house — a government office, esp at a port, where customs are collected and ships cleared for entry
  • customhouses — Plural form of customhouse.
  • customs shed — a large building in which customs officers carry out customs inspections
  • czechoslovak — Czechoslovak means belonging or relating to the former state of Czechoslovakia.
  • dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
  • death throes — The death throes of something are its final stages, just before it fails completely or ends.
  • debaucherous — tending toward or involving debauchery, or excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures: a night of debaucherous fun.
  • demographers — Plural form of demographer.
  • demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
  • demographies — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
  • demolishment — to destroy or ruin (a building or other structure), especially on purpose; tear down; raze.
  • dichotomised — Simple past tense and past participle of dichotomise.
  • diphosphates — a pyrophosphate.
  • diphtheroids — resembling diphtheria, especially in the formation of a false membrane in the throat.
  • directorship — a person or thing that directs.
  • disauthorize — to take authority away from (a person or organization)
  • discographer — a person who compiles discographies.
  • discotheques — Plural form of discotheque.
  • disharmonize — (intransitive) To cause disorder.
  • dishonesties — Plural form of dishonesty.
  • dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
  • disinherison — Disherison.
  • dog's chance — little likelihood; small chance (usually used in the negative): That project didn't have a dog's chance of succeeding.
  • doll's house — a miniature house the scale of children's dolls.
  • double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
  • douglas-home — Alexander Frederick (Baron Home of the Hirsel) 1903–1995, British statesman and politician: prime minister 1963–64.
  • drapery shop — a shop selling fabrics and sewing materials
  • dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
  • drop shipper — a wholesaler or distributor who conducts business in drop shipments.
  • droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
  • drove chisel — a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
  • dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.
  • duplex house — a house having separate apartments for two families, especially a two-story house having a complete apartment on each floor and two separate entrances.
  • dyotheletism — the teaching that Christ had both a divine will and a human will
  • dysmenorrhea — painful menstruation.
  • e-thrombosis — a clot in the bloodstream caused by long periods spent being physically inactive at a computer
  • earth closet — a type of lavatory in which earth is used to cover excreta
  • east chicago — a port in NW Indiana, on Lake Michigan, near Chicago.
  • east lothian — a historic county in SE Scotland.
  • eating house — a restaurant or other place where one can eat
  • echinococcus — any of a number of tapeworms of the genus Echinococcus whose larvae are parasitic in humans and domestic animals.
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