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

  • 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.
  • pythagorean — of or relating to Pythagoras, to his school, or to his doctrines.
  • 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
  • senatorship — the office or position of a senator
  • serotherapy — therapy by means of injections of a serum obtained especially from an immune animal.
  • sex therapy — treatment of sexual disorders that have psychological causes, employing psychiatric counseling, behavior modification, and education.
  • shag carpet — shag pile carpet
  • sheep track — a pathway made by and used by sheep, often in rocky or mountainous terrain, and sometimes followed by hikers
  • shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
  • 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.
  • spatterdash — a long gaiter to protect the trousers or stockings, as from mud while riding.
  • speechcraft — the art of rhetoric
  • spermaphyte — the placenta of a plant
  • spermatheca — a small sac or cavity in female or hermaphroditic invertebrates used to store sperm for fertilizing eggs, as in the queen bee.
  • 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.
  • spreadsheet — Accounting. a worksheet that is arranged in the manner of a mathematical matrix and contains a multicolumn analysis of related entries for easy reference on a single sheet.
  • star-shaped — of the shape of or like a star.
  • stench trap — a trap in a sewer that by means of a water seal prevents the upward passage of foul-smelling gases
  • stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stereograph — a single or double picture for a stereoscope.
  • stevengraph — a small picture woven in colored silk thread: introduced in 1879 and mass-produced on a Jacquard-type loom.
  • stewardship — the position and duties of a steward, a person who acts as the surrogate of another or others, especially by managing property, financial affairs, an estate, etc.
  • strap hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
  • strap-hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
  • straphanger — a passenger who stands in a crowded bus or subway train and holds onto a strap or other support suspended from above.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • sympathizer — a person who sympathizes.
  • tamper with — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
  • teachership — a person who teaches or instructs, especially as a profession; instructor.
  • telegraphed — an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place, especially by means of an electric device consisting essentially of a sending instrument and a distant receiving instrument connected by a conducting wire or other communications channel.
  • telegraphic — of or relating to the telegraph.
  • teletherapy — treatment in which the source of therapy is some distance from the body, as certain radiation therapies.
  • tenorrhaphy — suture of a tendon.
  • tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
  • tertianship — (in the Jesuit order) a period of strict discipline before the taking of final vows, beginning one or two years after ordination.
  • 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 permian — the Permian period or rock system
  • the proteas — the national cricket team of South Africa
  • 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
  • the-prairie — a historical novel (1827) by James Fenimore Cooper.
  • therapeutic — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
  • thermograph — a thermometer that records the temperatures it measures.
  • thermopylae — a pass in E Greece, between the cliffs of Mt. Oeta and the Gulf of Lamia: Persian defeat of the Spartans 480 b.c.
  • third space — the coffee shop considered as an alternative to a bar or restaurant as a place to socialize outside the home
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