0%

12-letter words containing s, h, o, t, a, l

  • posthospital — following treatment in a hospital
  • pyrosulphate — any salt of pyrosulphuric acid
  • reality show — A reality show is a type of television program that aims to show how ordinary people behave in everyday life, or in situations, often created by the program makers, which are intended to represent everyday life.
  • relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
  • sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
  • saw-whet owl — a very small North American owl, Aegolius acadicus, having streaked, brown plumage and lacking ear tufts.
  • scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
  • schistosomal — relating to or characteristic of a schistosome or member of the genus Schistosoma
  • schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
  • scoptophilia — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
  • shark patrol — a watch for sharks kept by an aircraft flying over beaches used by swimmers
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • shoe leather — treated animal skin used for shoes
  • shoot a line — to try to create a false image, as by boasting or exaggerating
  • shore patrol — (often initial capital letters) members of an organization in the U.S. Navy having police duties similar to those performed by military police. Abbreviation: SP.
  • short ballot — a ballot containing only candidates for the most important legislative and executive posts, leaving judicial and lesser administrative posts to be filled by appointment.
  • shot on goal — a shot that enters the goal or would have entered the goal if it had not been blocked by the goalkeeper or another defensive player.
  • shower stall — an individual compartment or self-contained unit, having a single shower and accommodating one person.
  • slash pocket — a pocket set into a garment, especially below the waistline, to which easy access is provided by an exterior, vertical or diagonal slit.
  • slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
  • 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.
  • smallclothes — men's close-fitting knee breeches of the 18th and 19th centuries
  • snaggletooth — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
  • snatch block — a fairlead having the form of a block that can be opened to receive the bight of a rope at any point along its length.
  • softheadedly — in a soft-headed manner
  • solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
  • south hadley — a city in W Massachusetts.
  • south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
  • south kvaløy — an island in the Arctic Ocean, off the N coast of Norway. Area: 735 sq km (284 sq miles)
  • south platte — a river flowing NE from central Colorado to the Platte River in W Nebraska. 424 miles (683 km) long.
  • sphacelation — the process of mortification
  • spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
  • stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
  • stakeholders — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
  • state school — A state school is a school that is controlled and funded by the government or a local authority, and which children can attend without having to pay.
  • stately home — a country mansion, usually of architectural interest and often open to the public.
  • steam shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
  • steam-shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
  • stenothermal — (of animals or plants) able to exist only within a narrow range of temperature
  • storm-lashed — badly affected by storms
  • stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
  • strophiolate — having a strophiole
  • stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
  • sulphonation — the action or process of converting or being converted into a sulphonate
  • talking shop — If you say that a conference or a committee is just a talking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.
  • telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • thalassocrat — a nation that has dominion over the seas.
  • thanks a lot — thank you
  • the absolute — ultimate reality regarded as uncaused, unmodified, unified and complete, timeless, etc.
  • the lothians — three historic counties of SE central Scotland (now council areas): East Lothian, West Lothian, and Midlothian (including Edinburgh)
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?