11-letter words containing a, i, s, h
- physiciancy — the position, job, or office of physician
- physiolater — somebody who worships nature
- physiolatry — the worship of nature
- pillow sham — an ornamental cover laid over a bed pillow.
- pintsch gas — gas with high illuminating power made from shale oil or petroleum, used in buoys, lighthouses, and railroad cars.
- pirate ship — vessel sailed by sea robbers
- pissasphalt — a sticky semi-liquid form of bitumen that is similar to tar
- planisphere — a map of half or more of the celestial sphere with a device for indicating the part of a given location visible at a given time.
- polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
- post chaise — a four-wheeled coach for rapid transportation of passengers and mail, used in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
- postholiday — occurring after a holiday
- praetorship — the office of a praetor.
- pre-spanish — of or relating to Spain, its people, or their language.
- preachiness — the quality of being preachy; a preachy style, esp a tedious one
- preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
- predispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- preemphasis — a process of increasing the amplitude of certain frequencies relative to others in a signal in order to help them override noise, complemented by deemphasis before final reproduction of the signal being received.
- prehispanic — Spanish.
- prelateship — the rank of a prelate
- prickly ash — Also called Northern prickly ash, toothache tree. a citrus shrub or small tree, Zanthoxylum americanum, having aromatic leaves and usually prickly branches.
- primateship — primacy (def 2).
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prophylaxis — Medicine/Medical. the preventing of disease. the prevention of a specific disease, as by studying the biological behavior, transmission, etc., of its causative agent and applying a series of measures against it.
- psaligraphy — the art of cutting out silhouettes
- psammophile — a plant or animal that thrives in sand
- psychedelia — the realm or artifacts of psychedelic drugs, art, writings, or the like.
- psychiatric — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- psychically — of or relating to the human soul or mind; mental (opposed to physical).
- psychodelia — the production of, or the culture associated with, psychedelic experiences
- publishable — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
- pukka sahib — (in British India) a term of respectful address used to British colonial authorities.
- qilian shan — a mountain range in W China, bordered between Qinghai and Gansu provinces.
- quail-brush — a salt-tolerant, silvery gray shrub, Atriplex lentiformis breweri, of the amaranth family, native to southern California.
- quasi-happy — delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing: to be happy to see a person.
- quitchgrass — Elymus repens.
- rabbitbrush — any of several composite shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus, of the western U.S. and Mexico, having whitish, hairy branches and yellow flowers.
- radio shack — a room or structure, as on a ship, for housing radio equipment.
- radnorshire — a historic county in Powys, in E Wales.
- rain shadow — a region in the lee of mountains that receives less rainfall than the region windward of the mountains.
- rain shower — a brief rainfall, usually of variable intensity.
- ramakrishna — Sri [sree,, shree] /sri,, ʃri/ (Show IPA), 1836–86, Hindu religious reformer and mystic.
- rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
- rapid chess — a game of chess played within a fixed amount of time, usually 30 minutes per player for all moves.
- ravishingly — extremely beautiful or attractive; enchanting; entrancing.
- re-emphasis — special stress laid upon, or importance attached to, anything: The president's statement gave emphasis to the budgetary crisis.
- reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
- reemphasize — to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
- reestablish — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
- repair shop — garage, body shop: for vehicles
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers