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11-letter words containing a, e, r, o, t, h

  • retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
  • retinopathy — any diseased condition of the retina, especially one that is noninflammatory.
  • retrophilia — a strong liking for things from the past
  • rhetorician — an expert in the art of rhetoric.
  • roh tae woo — born 1932, president of South Korea 1988–93.
  • room father — a male volunteer, often the father of a student, who assists an elementary-school teacher, as by working with students who need extra help.
  • rough trade — male homosexual prostitution, especially involving brutality or sadism.
  • route march — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
  • scattershot — delivered over a wide area and at random; generalized and indiscriminate: a scattershot attack on the proposed program.
  • sefer torah — Sepher Torah.
  • senatorship — the office or position of a senator
  • serotherapy — therapy by means of injections of a serum obtained especially from an immune animal.
  • servanthood — the condition of being a servant
  • shameworthy — deserving shame; denoting something a person ought to be ashamed of
  • short-dated — (of a gilt-edged security) having less than five years to run before redemption
  • short-range — having a limited extent, as in distance or time: a short-range shot; a short-range plan.
  • shortchange — to give less than the correct change to.
  • shorthaired — (of an animal) having hair that is short and lies close to the body.
  • smart phone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
  • snapshooter — an amateur photographer, especially one who takes snapshots with a simple camera.
  • softhearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
  • sore throat — a painful or sensitive condition of the throat exaggerated by swallowing or talking, usually caused by bacteria or viruses; laryngitis; pharyngitis; tonsillitis.
  • sothic year — the fixed year of the ancient Egyptians, determined by the heliacal rising of Sirius, and equivalent to 365 days.
  • south korea — 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.
  • southeaster — a wind or storm from the southeast.
  • southlander — a person from the south
  • spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
  • spirochaete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
  • stadtholder — stadholder.
  • stake horse — a horse that is regularly entered in stake races.
  • stakeholder — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
  • stallholder — A stallholder is a person who sells goods at a stall in a market.
  • statehooder — a person who supports or advocates the attainment of statehood for a territory, colony, or the like, especially for Puerto Rico.
  • steatorrhea — the presence of excess fat in the stools, usually caused by disease of the pancreas or intestine, and characterized by chronic diarrhea and weight loss.
  • stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stereograph — a single or double picture for a stereoscope.
  • tacheometer — a type of theodolite designed for the rapid measurement of distances, elevations, and directions
  • tacheometry — the measurement of distance, etc, using a tacheometer
  • tachysterol — an isomer of ergosterol, C28H44O, formed during the production of calciferol by the irradiation of ergosterol
  • tautochrone — a curve upon which a moving object will reach a certain point at the same time through gravity from whichever point it starts
  • technocracy — a theory and movement, prominent about 1932, advocating control of industrial resources, reform of financial institutions, and reorganization of the social system, based on the findings of technologists and engineers.
  • tenorrhaphy — suture of a tendon.
  • tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
  • tetrahedron — Geometry. a solid contained by four plane faces; a triangular pyramid.
  • thaumatrope — a card with different pictures on opposite sides, as a horse on one side and a rider on the other, which appear as if combined when the card is twirled rapidly, thus illustrating the persistence of visual impressions.
  • the argonne — a wooded region of NE France: scene of major battles in both World Wars
  • the cariboo — a region in the W foothills of the Cariboo Mountains, scene of a gold rush beginning in 1860
  • the creator — an epithet of God
  • the gorbals — a district of Glasgow, formerly known for its slums
  • the narrows — strait between Upper & Lower New York Bay, separating Staten Island & Long Island
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