11-letter words containing a, s, h, t, o, r
- phosphorate — Also, phosphorize. Chemistry. to combine or impregnate with phosphorus.
- physiolater — somebody who worships nature
- physiolatry — the worship of nature
- postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- praetorship — the office of a praetor.
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- 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.
- reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
- rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
- rhizanthous — bearing flowers directly from the root.
- rhizomatous — a rootlike subterranean stem, commonly horizontal in position, that usually produces roots below and sends up shoots progressively from the upper surface.
- saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- scattershot — delivered over a wide area and at random; generalized and indiscriminate: a scattershot attack on the proposed program.
- scharnhorst — Gerhard Johann David von [gair-hahrt yoh-hahn dah-veet fuh n] /ˈgɛər hɑrt ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈdɑ vit fən/ (Show IPA), 1755–1813, Prussian general.
- schoolcraft — Henry Rowe [roh] /roʊ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1864, U.S. explorer, ethnologist, and author.
- 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
- shoot craps — to play this game
- shootaround — an informal match or practice session
- short hairs — pubic hair.
- 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.
- sir anthony — Sir Anthony, Van Dyck, Sir Anthony.
- 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.
- solar month — month (def 4).
- solar-month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- 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
- southwardly — toward 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.
- sports hall — venue for physical activities
- stadtholder — stadholder.
- stag's horn — the antlers of a stag used as a material for carved implements
- 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.
- stasimorphy — structural modification by arrested development