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12-letter words containing s, h, t, g

  • scotch grain — a coarse, pebble-grained finish given to heavy leather, esp. for men's shoes
  • scratchingly — in a scratching manner, with a scratching action
  • scutch grass — Bermuda grass.
  • second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
  • see daylight — the light of day: At the end of the tunnel they could see daylight.
  • self-heating — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
  • self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • sell-through — quantity of direct sales made
  • sergeantfish — the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
  • set straight — to give the correct facts to; inform properly
  • sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • 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.
  • 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-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-change — to give less than the correct change to.
  • shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
  • 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.
  • shortsighted — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
  • 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.
  • show-through — the visibility through paper of what is printed on the other side.
  • showstopping — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
  • sight screen — a white screen set in line with the wicket as an aid to the batsman in seeing the ball when it is bowled.
  • sight unseen — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
  • sightseeings — the act of visiting and seeing places and objects of interest.
  • 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.
  • sixth-grader — a pupil in their sixth US school year after kindergarten, who is usually around 11 or 12 years old
  • sixty-eighth — next after the sixty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 68.
  • skirt length — the length of someone's skirt
  • slant height — (of a right circular cone) the distance from the vertex to any point on the circumference of the base.
  • slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
  • slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
  • slip through — be undetected
  • smart growth — People such as architects and environmentalists use smart growth to refer to the construction of new buildings and roads within a town or city so that they are close to people's workplaces and mass transit systems and so that open spaces are not built on.
  • smotheringly — in a smothering manner
  • smyth sewing — a method of sewing together folded, gathered, and collated signatures with a single thread sewn through the folds of individual signatures.
  • snaggletooth — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
  • snapshotting — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
  • sodium light — the light produced by a sodium lamp
  • sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • south-facing — facing towards the south
  • space flight — journey into outer space
  • spatiography — the study of the characteristics of space beyond the atmosphere, including the mapping of the movements of celestial bodies and the recording of electrical, magnetic, and gravitational effects, especially those likely to affect missiles and spacecraft.
  • spectrograph — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • sphragistics — the scientific study of seals or signet rings.
  • sphygmometer — a device which measures the rate of the pulse
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