12-letter words containing s, o, t, h
- show the way — guide
- show-stopper — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
- show-through — the visibility through paper of what is printed on the other side.
- shower stall — an individual compartment or self-contained unit, having a single shower and accommodating one person.
- showstopping — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
- shut up shop — When a shop, office, or firm shuts up shop, it stops doing business and closes, either at the end of the day or permanently.
- shut-out bid — a pre-emptive bid
- 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
- simhat torah — a Jewish festival, celebrated on the 23d day of Tishri, that marks the end of the annual cycle of Torah readings and the beginning of the next cycle
- sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
- siphonostele — a hollow tube of vascular tissue enclosing a pith and embedded in ground tissue.
- 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.
- sixth former — student: 16-18
- sixty-fourth — next after the sixty-third; being the ordinal number for 64.
- sketch-books — Also, sketchpad. a book or pad of drawing paper for sketches.
- 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.
- slip through — be undetected
- 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.
- slothfulness — sluggardly; indolent; lazy.
- smallclothes — men's close-fitting knee breeches of the 18th and 19th centuries
- 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.
- smooth hound — a smooth dogfish, especially Mustelus mustelus, inhabiting waters along the coast of Europe.
- smooth snake — any of several slender nonvenomous colubrid snakes of the European genus Coronella, esp C. austriaca, having very smooth scales and a reddish-brown coloration
- smooth sumac — a shrub or small tree, Rhus glabra, of the cashew family, native to North America, having pinnate leaves and green flowers in a dense terminal cluster.
- smooth-faced — beardless; smooth-shaven.
- 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
- snaggletooth — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
- snapshotting — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
- 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.
- snow thrower — snow blower.
- snowshoe cat — a breed of cat with soft short hair, blue eyes, an inverted V-shaped marking on the face, and white feet
- soccer pitch — the field of play used in soccer
- sodium light — the light produced by a sodium lamp
- soft chancre — chancroid.
- soft-hearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
- soft-shelled — Also, soft-shelled. having a soft, flexible, or fragile shell, as a crab that has recently molted.
- 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.
- solzhenitsyn — Alexander or Aleksandr (Isayevich) [al-ig-zan-der ee-sahy-uh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr ee-sah-yi-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər iˈsaɪ ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr iˈsɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1918–2008, Russian novelist: Nobel prize 1970; in the U.S. 1974–94.
- somaesthesia — sensory perception of bodily feelings like touch, pain, position of the limbs, etc
- sooty blotch — a disease, especially of apples and pears, characterized by sootlike spots or blotches on the fruit, caused by a fungus, Gloeodes pomigena.
- sophisticate — a sophisticated person.
- sothic cycle — (in the ancient Egyptian calendar) a period of 1460 Sothic years.
- sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- soul brother — a black male, especially a fellow black male.