11-letter words containing h, a, t, s
- ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
- post chaise — a four-wheeled coach for rapid transportation of passengers and mail, used in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
- postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- postholiday — occurring after a holiday
- potash alum — alum1 (def 1).
- praetorship — the office of a praetor.
- predispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- prelateship — the rank of a prelate
- primateship — primacy (def 2).
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- psammophyte — a plant that grows in sand or sandy soil.
- psychiatric — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- psychopathy — a mental disorder in which an individual manifests amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.
- quitchgrass — Elymus repens.
- rabbitbrush — any of several composite shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus, of the western U.S. and Mexico, having whitish, hairy branches and yellow flowers.
- 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.
- rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
- rathskeller — (in Germany) the cellar of a town hall, often used as a beer hall or restaurant.
- rattle-bush — blue false indigo.
- reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
- reestablish — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
- 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.
- riefenstahl — Leni [ley-nee] /ˈleɪ ni/ (Show IPA), 1902–2003, German film director.
- right stage — the part of the stage that is right of center as one faces the audience.
- saccharated — sweetened
- saddlecloth — Horse Racing. a cloth placed over the saddle of a racehorse bearing the horse's number.
- safety hook — a hook that can be transformed into an eye by locking a hinged piece in place.
- sales pitch — promotional talk
- salt shaker — a container for salt with a perforated top to allow the salt to be shaken out.
- saltchucker — a saltwater angler
- saltishness — the condition of being saltish
- sam houston — Sam(uel) 1793–1863, U.S. soldier and political leader: president of the Republic of Texas 1836–38 and 1841–44.
- saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- sash weight — a counterweight to a vertically sliding window sash.
- satanophany — a manifestation or incarnation of Satan; demonic possession
- savannakhet — a city in S central Laos.
- saw-toothed — having pointing resembling the edge of a saw.
- saxophonist — musician who plays saxophone
- 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.
- 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.
- schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
- schematical — based on a scheme or structured arrangement
- schenectady — a city in E New York, on the Mohawk River.
- schismatist — schismatic (def 2).
- schismatize — to take part in a schism.