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12-letter words containing s, i, n, h, a, l

  • saccharinely — of the nature of or resembling that of sugar: a powdery substance with a saccharine taste.
  • sailing ship — a large ship equipped with sails.
  • saint helena — Saint, c247–c330, mother of Constantine I.
  • saint helens — a city in Merseyside, in NW England, near Liverpool.
  • saint helier — a British island in the English Channel: the largest of the Channel Islands. 44 sq. mi. (116 sq. km). Capital: St. Helier.
  • saint phalle — Niki de [nik-ee duh;; French nee-kee duh] /ˈnɪk i də;; French niˈki də/ (Show IPA), 1930–2002, French sculptor and painter.
  • saint-mihiel — a town in NE France, on the Meuse River, NW of Nancy: captured by American forces 1918.
  • salesmanship — the technique of selling a product: They used a promotional gimmick that was the last word in salesmanship.
  • sandy blight — trachoma.
  • scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
  • scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
  • scratch line — a line that marks the start of a race.
  • scratchingly — in a scratching manner, with a scratching action
  • self-healing — curing or curative; prescribed or helping to heal.
  • self-heating — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
  • shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • shoot a line — to try to create a false image, as by boasting or exaggerating
  • shrimp plant — a small, sprawling shrub, Justicia brandegeana (or Beloperone guttata), of the acanthus family, native to Mexico, having small white flowers protruding from a series of overlapping reddish bracts and often cultivated as a houseplant.
  • simian shelf — a shelflike thickening along the inside of the mandible, characteristic of the anthropoid apes.
  • single-phase — noting or pertaining to a circuit having an alternating current with one phase or with phases differing by 180°.
  • slab dashing — the act or process of covering an exterior wall with roughcast.
  • slant height — (of a right circular cone) the distance from the vertex to any point on the circumference of the base.
  • slap dashing — slab dashing.
  • 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.
  • smallholding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
  • smith island — a group of islands in S Maryland and N Virginia, in Chesapeake Bay.
  • south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
  • spanish heel — a high, curved heel with a straight heel breast, used on women's shoes.
  • sphacelation — the process of mortification
  • sphincterial — relating to a sphincter
  • stealthiness — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
  • sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
  • sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
  • sulphonation — the action or process of converting or being converted into a sulphonate
  • sunshine law — a law requiring a government agency to open its official meetings and records to the general public.
  • supply chain — process of manufacture and sale
  • synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
  • synchronical — happening at the same time
  • 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.
  • the antilles — a group of islands in the Caribbean
  • the lothians — three historic counties of SE central Scotland (now council areas): East Lothian, West Lothian, and Midlothian (including Edinburgh)
  • the midlands — the central counties of England, including Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, the former West Midlands metropolitan county, and Worcestershire: characterized by manufacturing industries
  • the silurian — the Silurian period or rock system
  • thessalonian — of or relating to Thessalonike or its inhabitants.
  • thessalonica — official name of Salonika.
  • thessalonike — official name of Salonika.
  • thessaloníki — official name of Salonika.
  • transleithan — beyond the river Leitha, which once formed part of the boundary between Austria and Hungary
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