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

  • range light — one of a pattern of navigation lights, usually fixed ashore, used by vessels for manoeuvring in narrow channels at night
  • rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
  • rat-catcher — a person, animal, or thing that catches and exterminates rats, especially a person whose business it is to rid a property of rats.
  • rather than — in preference to
  • rathskeller — (in Germany) the cellar of a town hall, often used as a beer hall or restaurant.
  • rattle-bush — blue false indigo.
  • readthrough — reading (def 1).
  • reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
  • reauthorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
  • rechartered — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
  • reestablish — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
  • rehydration — to restore moisture or fluid to (something dehydrated).
  • 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
  • return half — the return part of a two-way ticket
  • rh negative — See under Rh factor.
  • rh-negative — See under Rh factor.
  • rhetorician — an expert in the art of rhetoric.
  • rheumaticky — affected with rheumatism
  • riefenstahl — Leni [ley-nee] /ˈleɪ ni/ (Show IPA), 1902–2003, German film director.
  • right angle — the angle formed by two radii of a circle that are drawn to the extremities of an arc equal to one quarter of the circle; the angle formed by two perpendicular lines that intersect; an angle of 90°.
  • right brace — (character)   "}". ASCII character 125. Common names: close brace; right brace; right squiggly; right squiggly bracket/brace; right curly bracket/brace; ITU-T: closing brace. Rare: unbrace; uncurly; rytit ("" = leftit); right squirrelly; {INTERCAL: bracelet ("" = embrace).

    Paired with {left brace

  • right heart — the half of the heart, containing the right ventricle and right atrium, which supplies dark-red, oxygen-deficient venous blood to the lungs for oxygenation
  • right stage — the part of the stage that is right of center as one faces the audience.
  • right whale — any of several large whalebone whales of the genus Balaena, of circumpolar seas: the species B. glacialis is greatly reduced in numbers.
  • 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.
  • rude health — If someone is in rude health, they are strong and healthy.
  • rue the day — If you rue the day that you did something, you are sorry that you did it, because it has had unpleasant results.
  • saccharated — sweetened
  • salt shaker — a container for salt with a perforated top to allow the salt to be shaken out.
  • saltchucker — a saltwater angler
  • scarlet hat — a cardinal's hat
  • scattershot — delivered over a wide area and at random; generalized and indiscriminate: a scattershot attack on the proposed program.
  • scratchless — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
  • sea feather — any of several anthozoans of the order Gorgonacea, in which the colony assumes a featherlike shape.
  • sea leather — the skin of sharks, porpoises, dogfishes, etc., prepared and used for the same purposes as ordinary leather.
  • 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.
  • searchlight — a device, usually consisting of a light and reflector, for throwing a beam of light in any direction.
  • sefer torah — Sepher Torah.
  • self-hatred — the feeling of one who hates; intense dislike or extreme aversion or hostility.
  • 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
  • sex therapy — treatment of sexual disorders that have psychological causes, employing psychiatric counseling, behavior modification, and education.
  • shaft grave — a grave consisting of a deep, rectangular pit with vertical sides, roofed over with a stone slab.
  • shaftesbury — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of, 1621–83, English statesman.
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