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12-letter words containing u, n, h, o

  • school lunch — School lunches are midday meals provided for children at a school.
  • schopenhauer — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
  • shame on you — expressing disapproval
  • 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.
  • 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
  • shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
  • show jumping — sport: horseriding event
  • 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.
  • sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
  • 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.
  • slothfulness — sluggardly; indolent; lazy.
  • smooth hound — a smooth dogfish, especially Mustelus mustelus, inhabiting waters along the coast of Europe.
  • sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
  • sounion head — the tip of the Attica peninsula, E central Greece: site of ancient temple ruins.
  • soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
  • south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
  • south korean — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 36,600 sq. mi. (94,795 sq. km). Capital: Seoul. Compare Korea.
  • south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • south-facing — facing towards the south
  • southeastern — from the south east
  • southernmost — farthest south.
  • southernness — the state of being southern
  • southernwood — a woody-stemmed wormwood, Artemisia abrotanum, of southern Europe, having aromatic, finely dissected leaves.
  • southwestern — the point or direction midway between south and west. Abbreviation: SW.
  • speech sound — any of the set of distinctive sounds of a given language. Compare phoneme.
  • stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
  • stockpunisht — punished by being put in stocks
  • strophanthus — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Strophanthus, of the dogbane family, chiefly of tropical Africa.
  • subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
  • subhastation — a public auction or sale
  • 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
  • superheroine — a woman noted for courageous acts or nobility of character: Esther and other biblical heroines.
  • synantherous — with united anthers
  • synchro unit — a type of alternating-current motor designed to maintain continuously, at some remote location, the same rotational angle that may be imposed by force upon the electrically connected rotating element of a similar motor.
  • technicolour — brightly, showily, or garishly coloured; vividly noticeable
  • technojunkie — a person addicted to or obsessed by new technology
  • telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
  • thaumatogeny — the belief that the origin of life was the result of a miracle
  • the conquest — the conquest by the United Kingdom of French North America, ending in 1763
  • the monument — a tall columnar building designed (1671) by Sir Christopher Wren to commemorate the Fire of London (1666), which destroyed a large part of the medieval city
  • the mountain — an extremist faction during the French Revolution led by Danton and Robespierre
  • theoclymenus — (in the Odyssey) a seer who foretold the return of Odysseus and the death of Penelope's suitors.
  • thoroughness — executed without negligence or omissions: a thorough search.
  • thousandfold — having a thousand elements or parts.
  • thread count — thread density of a woven fabric
  • through-line — a theme or idea that runs from the beginning to the end of a book, film, etc
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