11-letter words containing h, e, r, t, s
- postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- praetorship — the office of a praetor.
- predispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- prefectship — the position of, or period served as, a prefect
- prehistoric — of or relating to the time or a period prior to recorded history: The dinosaur is a prehistoric beast.
- prelateship — the rank of a prelate
- 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
- primateship — primacy (def 2).
- proof sheet — a printer's proof.
- 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.
- psychometer — a device for measuring mental or psychological activity
- psychometry — Psychology. psychometrics.
- 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.
- redshirting — a high-school or college athlete kept out of varsity competition for one year to develop skills and extend eligibility. a child held back from starting kindergarten for one year, the practice of which is believed by some parents to give the child academic, athletic, and social advantages.
- reestablish — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
- refreshment — something that refreshes, especially food or drink.
- reject shop — a shop that sells damaged or imperfect products that cannot be sold at the full price
- resynthesis — the combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity (opposed to analysis, ) the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements.
- 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.
- rhinestoned — adorned with rhinestones
- rhymesters' — a writer of inferior verse; poetaster.
- 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.
- righteously — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
- riot shield — Riot shields are pieces of equipment made of transparent plastic which are used by the police to protect themselves against angry crowds.
- rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
- roosterfish — a large, edible fish, Nematistius pectoralis, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Pacific Ocean, having the first dorsal fin composed of brightly colored filamentous rays.
- rope stitch — (in embroidery) a stitch formed from the entwining of stitches.
- 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.
- schorlomite — a mineral that is black in colour and belongs to the garnet group
- schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
- scotch rose — a rose, Rosa spinosissima, of Eurasia, having pink, white, or yellow flowers.
- 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.
- screen shot — Also called screen capture. a copy or image of what is seen on a computer screen at a given time: Save the screenshot as a graphics file.
- screenshort — a screenshot that is shared on a social media website.
- 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.