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12-letter words that end in h

  • spar varnish — a durable, weather-resistant varnish applied to unpainted wooden areas, especially on ships.
  • spatter dash — roughcast (def 1).
  • spatter-dash — Also called spatter dash. an exterior wall finish composed of mortar and fine pebbles mixed together and dashed against the wall. Compare pebble dash.
  • spectrograph — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • sphygmograph — an instrument for recording the rapidity, strength, and uniformity of the arterial pulse.
  • sponge cloth — any cloth loosely woven of coarse yarn to produce a spongy look or texture, especially one constructed in honeycomb weave.
  • spring catch — a catch for an interior or cabinet door that has a bolt operated by a spring.
  • spring vetch — any of several mostly climbing plants belonging to the genus Vicia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves ending in tendrils and bearing pealike flowers, especially V. sativa (spring vetch) cultivated for forage and soil improvement.
  • squirrelfish — any of several brightly colored, nocturnal fishes of the family Holocentridae, inhabiting shallow waters of tropical reefs, especially the reddish Holocentrus ascensionis of the West Indies, armed with sharp spines and scales.
  • stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
  • stand-offish — If you say that someone is stand-offish, you mean that they behave in a formal and rather unfriendly way.
  • state church — established church.
  • steganograph — a piece of coded writing; cipher
  • stinking ash — hoptree.
  • strip-search — to search (a suspect who has been required to remove all clothing) especially for concealed weapons, contraband, or evidence of drug abuse.
  • studio couch — an upholstered couch, usually without a back, convertible into a double bed by sliding a bed frame out from beneath it and covering the frame with the mattress that forms the upper thickness of the upholstery.
  • stump speech — a political campaign speech, especially one made on a campaign tour.
  • subparagraph — a distinct portion of written or printed matter dealing with a particular idea, usually beginning with an indentation on a new line.
  • sucker punch — to strike (someone) with an unexpected blow.
  • sucker-punch — to strike (someone) with an unexpected blow.
  • sudden death — an overtime period in which a tied contest is won and play is stopped immediately after one of the contestants scores, as in football, or goes ahead, as in golf.
  • sulphur bath — a curative bath in which the water used has sulphates dissolved in it, especially one in which the water comes from a natural hot spring
  • sunday punch — Boxing. the most powerful and effective punch of a boxer, especially the punch used in trying to gain a knockout.
  • super-sleuth — a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.
  • super-smooth — dead-smooth.
  • swiss-french — of or relating to a person from French-speaking Switzerland
  • sycophantish — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • synchroflash — of or relating to photography employing a device that synchronizes the photoflash with the shutter.
  • take an oath — pledge
  • take up with — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
  • talk through — guide through: a procedure, etc.
  • talmud torah — (in Europe) a community-supported Jewish elementary school for teaching children Hebrew, Bible, and the fundamentals of Judaism.
  • team up with — join forces with
  • telautograph — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting, drawings, etc, the movements of an electromagnetically controlled pen at one end being transmitted along a line to a similar pen at the receiving end
  • the cenotaph — the monument in Whitehall, London, honouring the dead of both World Wars: designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens: erected in 1920
  • the scottish — the Scots collectively
  • therethrough — (of a place) through it; through them
  • thirdborough — an under constable of a township
  • thirty-fifth — next after the thirty-fourth; being the ordinal number for 35.
  • thirty-ninth — next after the thirty-eighth; being the ordinal number for 39.
  • thirty-sixth — next after the thirty-fifth; being the ordinal number for 36.
  • through with — having finished with (esp when dissatisfied with)
  • thunderflash — a pyrotechnic device which is noisy, but not dangerous, and which is used in military exercises
  • ticket booth — kiosk: sells tickets
  • timber hitch — a knot used for tying a rope round a spar, log, etc, for haulage
  • timber-hitch — to fasten by means of a timber hitch.
  • to hell with — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
  • to the death — to the very end (of a struggle, quarrel, etc.)
  • to the teeth — (in most vertebrates) one of the hard bodies or processes usually attached in a row to each jaw, serving for the prehension and mastication of food, as weapons of attack or defense, etc., and in mammals typically composed chiefly of dentin surrounding a sensitive pulp and covered on the crown with enamel.
  • tone in with — to harmonize with
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