11-letter words containing e, s, o, p, h
- physiometry — measurement of the physiological functions of the body.
- phytosterol — Biochemistry. any of various sterols obtained from plants.
- pilot house — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
- pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
- pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
- ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
- port neches — a town in SE Texas.
- porterhouse — Also called porterhouse steak. a choice cut of beef from between the prime ribs and the sirloin.
- post chaise — a four-wheeled coach for rapid transportation of passengers and mail, used in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
- post-holder — a person who has a particular job or position
- postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- praetorship — the office of a praetor.
- preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
- prehistoric — of or relating to the time or a period prior to recorded history: The dinosaur is a prehistoric beast.
- prep school — preparatory school.
- preschooler — a child below the official school starting age, usually a child up to age five.
- priest-hole — a secret chamber in certain houses in England, built as a hiding place for Roman Catholic priests when they were proscribed in the 16th and 17th centuries
- pro-chinese — the standard language of China, based on the speech of Beijing; Mandarin.
- proof sheet — a printer's proof.
- prophesying — to foretell or predict.
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- prosthetics — an artificial body part; a prosthesis: Hundreds of amputees volunteered to test the new prosthetics.
- prosthetist — a person skilled in making or fitting prosthetic devices.
- proud flesh — granulation tissue.
- psammophile — a plant or animal that thrives in sand
- psammophyte — a plant that grows in sand or sandy soil.
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- pseudomorph — an irregular or unclassifiable form.
- pseudophone — an instrument for producing illusory auditory localization by changing the relationship between the receptor and the actual direction of the sound.
- psychagogue — a necromancer
- psyche knot — a woman's hairdo in which a knot or coil of hair projects from the back of the head.
- psychodelia — the production of, or the culture associated with, psychedelic experiences
- psychogenic — having origin in the mind or in a mental condition or process: a psychogenic disorder.
- psychometer — a device for measuring mental or psychological activity
- psychometry — Psychology. psychometrics.
- psychotogen — a substance that causes a psychotic reaction.
- puppet show — an entertainment, as a play or musical revue, in which the performers are puppets.
- pythonesque — denoting a kind of humour that is absurd and unpredictable; zany; surreal
- record shop — store selling recorded music
- reject shop — a shop that sells damaged or imperfect products that cannot be sold at the full price
- repair shop — garage, body shop: for vehicles
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
- reupholster — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- rh positive — See under Rh factor.
- rh-positive — See under Rh factor.
- rheotropism — the effect of a current of water upon the direction of plant growth.
- rhizosphere — the area of soil that surrounds the roots of a plant and is altered by the plant's root growth, nutrients, respiration, etc.
- rhône-alpes — a region of E France: mainly mountainous, rising to the edge of the Massif Central in the west and the French Alps in the east; drained by the Rivers Rhône, Saône, and Isère
- rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
- rompishness — the state or condition of being rompish