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11-letter words containing a, s, h, r, m

  • mycorrhizas — Plural form of mycorrhiza.
  • myographist — a person who has expert knowledge of muscles
  • nightdreams — Plural form of nightdream.
  • nightmarish — resembling a nightmare, especially in being terrifying, exasperating, or the like: his nightmarish experience in a concentration camp.
  • north adams — a city in NW Massachusetts.
  • oarsmanship — The skill of rowing a boat.
  • offshoreman — a person who works offshore, especially on an offshore oil rig.
  • parashurama — a Rama and avatar of Vishnu who rid the earth of Kshatriyas.
  • parish pump — of only local interest; parochial
  • petrarchism — the poetic style introduced by Petrarch and characteristic of his work, marked by complex grammatical structure, elaborate conceits, and conventionalized diction.
  • phanerogams — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
  • phariseeism — the principles and practices of the Pharisees.
  • phrasemaker — a person who is skilled in coining well-turned phrases; phraseologist.
  • phraseogram — a written symbol or combination of symbols, as in shorthand, used to represent a phrase.
  • preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
  • 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.
  • prefreshman — before being a freshman
  • primateship — primacy (def 2).
  • prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
  • psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
  • ramakrishna — Sri [sree,, shree] /sri,, ʃri/ (Show IPA), 1836–86, Hindu religious reformer and mystic.
  • ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude
  • ramos-horta — José, born 1949, East Timorese resistance leader, political activist (1975–99) during Indonesian occupation, and foreign minister from independence in 2000 to 2006; president since 2007: Nobel prize 1996.
  • re-emphasis — special stress laid upon, or importance attached to, anything: The president's statement gave emphasis to the budgetary crisis.
  • reemphasize — to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
  • rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
  • rhizomatous — a rootlike subterranean stem, commonly horizontal in position, that usually produces roots below and sends up shoots progressively from the upper surface.
  • roman shade — a window shade that, when raised, is drawn up into a series of concertina folds.
  • rush family — the plant family Juncaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having narrow, grasslike leaves, small and greenish flowers, and capsular fruit with three compartments, comprising the true rushes.
  • sandringham — a village in N Norfolk, England: site of Sandringham House, Royal Family mansion.
  • sarcenchyme — the connective tissue of some sponges
  • scaramouche — a stock character in commedia dell'arte and farce who is a cowardly braggart, easily beaten and frightened.
  • schmierkase — cottage cheese.
  • schoolmarms — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
  • schwarmerei — excessive enthusiasm or sentimentality.
  • search term — Computers. a word or other term used to electronically retrieve data, Web pages, or other information from files, databases, etc.: When you search the shopping website, ads relating to your search terms will appear along with your search results.
  • seismograph — any of various instruments for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes.
  • serrano ham — cured ham from Spain
  • shameworthy — deserving shame; denoting something a person ought to be ashamed of
  • sharefarmer — a farmer who pays a fee to another in return for use of land to raise crops, etc
  • sir michael — Sir Michael (Kemp) 1905–98, British composer.
  • sky marshal — an armed plainclothes federal marshal riding on an airliner to protect against skyjacking.
  • slant rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
  • small hours — pre-dawn
  • smallholder — owner of small plot of land
  • smart phone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
  • smear-sheet — a newspaper, magazine, or other periodical specializing in gossip, scandal, malicious innuendo, etc.
  • smokechaser — a person who fights forest fires, especially one with lightweight equipment.
  • solar month — month (def 4).
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