11-letter words containing h, a, p, u
- port arthur — a port in W Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Superior: created in 1970 by the merger of twin cities (Fort William and Port Arthur) and two adjoining townships.
- potash alum — alum1 (def 1).
- pouched rat — pocket gopher.
- prepurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- preterhuman — beyond what is human: preterhuman experience.
- prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prothallium — Botany. the gametophyte of ferns and related plants.
- prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- psychagogue — a necromancer
- 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.
- pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
- pumpkinhead — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- purchasable — capable of being bought.
- purehearted — (of a person) without malice, treachery, or evil intent; honest; sincere; guileless.
- purpleheart — the hard, purplish wood of any of several South American trees belonging to the genus Peltogyne, of the legume family, used for making furniture.
- push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- pyrrhuloxia — a cardinallike grosbeak, Cardinalis (Pyrrhuloxia) sinuatus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a bill superficially resembling that of a parrot.
- quadraphony — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quasi-happy — delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing: to be happy to see a person.
- reproachful — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- repurchaser — to buy again; regain by purchase.
- roman punch — a lemon-water ice flavored with rum or other alcoholic beverage.
- rough paper — paper that is used for writing a rough copy
- russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
- sarcophagus — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
- sceuophylax — a keeper of sacred vessels
- shop around — compare prices
- southampton — Henry Wriothesley [rahy-uh ths-lee] /ˈraɪ əθs li/ (Show IPA), 3rd Earl of, 1573–1624, English nobleman, soldier, and patron of writers, including William Shakespeare.
- spathaceous — of the nature of or resembling a spathe.
- sphaeridium — a round body found on sea urchins
- straight up — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- straight-up — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- stump ranch — (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees
- sulphurator — an apparatus used in treating anything with sulphur or sulphur fumes, such as in fumigating
- super-earth — a hypothetical planet larger than the earth but smaller than the four gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus, thought to be orbiting the sun beyond the Kuiper belt but nearer than the Oort cloud: its existence is suggested by two known dwarf planets in a similar orbit
- supercharge — to charge with an abundant or excessive amount, as of energy, emotion, or tension.
- superharden — harden (def 6).
- superheated — If a liquid is superheated, it has been heated to a temperature that is higher than its boiling point without being allowed to boil.
- sympathique — pleasing or congenial
- tautophonic — having or repeating the same sound
- tehuantepec — Isthmus of, an isthmus in S Mexico, between the Gulf of Tehuantepec and the Gulf of Campeche. 125 miles (200 km) wide at its narrowest point.
- thaumatrope — a card with different pictures on opposite sides, as a horse on one side and a rider on the other, which appear as if combined when the card is twirled rapidly, thus illustrating the persistence of visual impressions.
- the rapture — in some Christian theologies, the bodily ascent into heaven just before Armageddon of those who are saved (see save1 (sense 8)
- the vapours — a depressed mental condition believed originally to be the result of vaporous exhalations from the stomach
- theophagous — relating to theophagy or the practice of symbolically consuming the body of God or a god
- theophanous — a manifestation or appearance of God or a god to a person.
- therapeutic — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
- thumb piano — any of various African boxlike musical instruments, such as the kalimba or mbira, having tuned strips of metal or wood that vibrate when played with the thumbs.