12-letter words containing s, h, u, l, t
- reupholstery — the materials used to cushion and cover furniture.
- rheumatismal — of or relating to rheumatism
- rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
- sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
- scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
- scratchbuilt — describing something which has been constructed by scratchbuilding
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- sell-through — quantity of direct sales made
- shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
- short column — a column whose relative dimensions ensure that when it is overloaded it fails by crushing, rather than buckling
- shut-in well — confined to one's home, a hospital, etc., as from illness.
- shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
- 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.
- silhouettist — a creator of silhouette portraits
- 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.
- slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
- slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
- slip through — be undetected
- slothfulness — sluggardly; indolent; lazy.
- sodium light — the light produced by a sodium lamp
- soul brother — a black male, especially a fellow black male.
- south euclid — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- 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.
- sprightfully — in a sprightful manner
- stealthfully — secret, clandestine, or surreptitious procedure.
- subthreshold — (of a stimulus) too weak to produce a response.
- sulphonation — the action or process of converting or being converted into a sulphonate
- sulphur bath — a curative bath in which the water used has sulphates dissolved in it, especially one in which the water comes from a natural hot spring
- sulphur tuft — a poisonous basidiomycetous fungus, Hypholoma fasciculare, having a sulphurous yellow cap and found in clumps on and around broad-leaved trees
- super-sleuth — a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.
- superathlete — a highly accomplished athlete, an exceptional athlete
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- thankfulness — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
- the absolute — ultimate reality regarded as uncaused, unmodified, unified and complete, timeless, etc.
- the bushveld — an area of low altitude in N South Africa, having scrub vegetation
- the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
- the silurian — the Silurian period or rock system
- the snuffles — a condition characterized by snuffling
- the struggle — the radical and armed opposition to apartheid, esp by the military wings of the ANC and the PAC
- the troubles — political unrest or public disturbances
- the-sea-gull — a play (1896) by Anton Chekhov.
- theoclymenus — (in the Odyssey) a seer who foretold the return of Odysseus and the death of Penelope's suitors.
- thiobacillus — any of several rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Thiobacillus, inhabiting soil, sewage, etc., that derive energy from oxidation of sulfur or sulfur compounds.
- thiosulfuric — of or derived from thiosulfuric acid.
- thiosulphate — any salt of thiosulphuric acid
- thistle tube — a glass funnel consisting of a long narrow tube with a thistle-shaped head.
- thousandfold — having a thousand elements or parts.