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

  • phantasmatic — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
  • phantasmical — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
  • phonasthenia — difficult or abnormal voice production; vocal weakness.
  • phonotactics — the patterns in which the phonemes of a language may combine to form sequences.
  • plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • prehistorian — an authority on or specialist in prehistory
  • radiophonist — a person who produces radiophonic music
  • ranjit singh — ("Lion of the Punjab") 1780–1839, Indian maharaja: founder of the Sikh kingdom of Punjab.
  • relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
  • retainership — the condition of being a retainer or of having retainers.
  • rush matting — a floor covering made from rushes (plants of the genus Juncus)
  • rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
  • saccharinity — of the nature of or resembling that of sugar: a powdery substance with a saccharine taste.
  • safety chain — a chain on the fastening of a bracelet, watch, etc, to ensure that it cannot open enough to fall off accidentally
  • 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 hubert — a borough in S Quebec, Canada, just E of Montreal.
  • saint john's — an island state comprising Antigua and two smaller islands: a member of the former West Indies Associated States; formerly a British crown colony; gained independence 1981. 171 sq. mi. (442 sq. km). Capital: St. John's.
  • saint joseph — a city in NW Missouri, on the Missouri River.
  • saint martha — a sister of Mary and Lazarus, who lived at Bethany and ministered to Jesus (Luke 10:38–42). Feast day: July 29 or June 4
  • 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 thomas — Saint Thomas ("the Angelic Doctor") 1225?–74, Italian scholastic philosopher: a major theologian of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • saint-hubert — town in S Quebec, Canada: part of metropolitan Montreal: pop. 77,000
  • saint-mihiel — a town in NE France, on the Meuse River, NW of Nancy: captured by American forces 1918.
  • sandy blight — trachoma.
  • sanity check — (programming)   1. Checking code (or anything else, e.g. a Usenet posting) for completely stupid mistakes. Implies that the check is to make sure the author was sane when it was written; e.g. if a piece of scientific software relied on a particular formula and was giving unexpected results, one might first look at the nesting of parentheses or the coding of the formula, as a "sanity check", before looking at the more complex I/O or data structure manipulation routines, much less the algorithm itself. Compare reality check. 2. A run-time test, either validating input or ensuring that the program hasn't screwed up internally (producing an inconsistent value or state).
  • satanophobia — a morbid fear of the devil or Satan
  • satin stitch — a long, straight embroidery stitch worked closely parallel in rows to form a pattern that resembles satin.
  • satin-smooth — pleasantly soft and smooth, like satin
  • scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
  • scintigraphy — the process of producing a scintigram.
  • scotch grain — a coarse, pebble-grained finish given to heavy leather, esp. for men's shoes
  • scratch line — a line that marks the start of a race.
  • scratchingly — in a scratching manner, with a scratching action
  • section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
  • self-heating — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
  • sergeantfish — the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
  • share option — A share option is an opportunity for the employees of a company to buy shares at a special price.
  • sheath knife — a knife carried in a sheath.
  • shoot a line — to try to create a false image, as by boasting or exaggerating
  • 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
  • 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.
  • sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
  • slant height — (of a right circular cone) the distance from the vertex to any point on the circumference of the base.
  • 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.
  • smith island — a group of islands in S Maryland and N Virginia, in Chesapeake Bay.
  • snapshotting — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
  • south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
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