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

  • red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
  • relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
  • resort hotel — a hotel in a holiday resort
  • reupholstery — the materials used to cushion and cover furniture.
  • reverse shot — a shot that views the action from the opposite side of the previous shot, as during a conversation between two actors, giving the effect of looking from one actor to the other.
  • ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
  • rock-shelter — a shallow cave or cavelike area, as one formed by an overhanging cliff or standing rocks, occupied by Stone Age peoples, possibly for extended periods.
  • run the show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
  • sacher torte — a chocolate cake covered with apricot jam and chocolate icing, usually served with whipped cream.
  • say the word — If someone says the word, they give their approval as a sign that something should start to happen.
  • scatter shot — shot prepared for a weapon having a rifled bore or barrel.
  • schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
  • second birth — spiritual rebirth.
  • self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • sell-through — quantity of direct sales made
  • sepher torah — a scroll of the Torah, typically of parchment, from which the designated Parashah is chanted or read on the prescribed days.
  • servitorship — the office or position of a servitor; the condition of being a servitor
  • share option — A share option is an opportunity for the employees of a company to buy shares at a special price.
  • 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.
  • sharpshooter — a person skilled in shooting, especially with a rifle.
  • shatter cone — a cone-shaped fragment of rock, probably formed by violent shock waves, as from meteoritic impact or atomic explosions
  • shatterproof — designed or made to resist shattering: shatterproof glass in automobile windows.
  • sheet anchor — Nautical. a large anchor used only in cases of emergency.
  • shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
  • ship's store — a retail store aboard a navy ship that sells toiletries, cigarettes, etc., to the ship's personnel.
  • shoe leather — treated animal skin used for shoes
  • shop steward — commerce: union rep
  • 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 notice — little warning
  • short seller — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
  • short splice — a splice used when an increased thickness of the united rope is not objectionable, made by unlaying the rope ends a certain distance, uniting them so that their strands overlap, then tucking each alternately over and under others several times.
  • short-change — to give less than the correct change to.
  • short-haired — having short hair
  • short-handed — not having the usual or necessary number of workers, helpers, etc.
  • short-spoken — speaking in a short, brief, or curt manner.
  • short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
  • shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
  • shortsighted — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
  • show stopper — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
  • show-stopper — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
  • shower stall — an individual compartment or self-contained unit, having a single shower and accommodating one person.
  • sixth former — student: 16-18
  • slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
  • smother-love — a relationship between a parent and child in which the parent is over-protective to the extent that the child's normal psychological development is inhibited
  • smotheriness — the condition or state of smothering
  • smotheringly — in a smothering manner
  • snow thrower — snow blower.
  • soccer pitch — the field of play used in soccer
  • soft chancre — chancroid.
  • soft-hearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
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