11-letter words containing h, i, p, u, r
- perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
- perithecium — the fruiting body of ascomycetous fungi, typically a minute, more or less completely closed, globose or flask-shaped body enclosing the asci.
- perithelium — the connective tissue surrounding certain small vessels, as capillaries.
- picture hat — a woman's hat having a very broad, flexible brim, often decorated with feathers, flowers, or the like.
- pill pusher — a medical doctor, especially one who too readily prescribes medication.
- pill-pusher — a medical doctor, especially one who too readily prescribes medication.
- plutarchian — of or relating to the biographer Plutarch.
- prothallium — Botany. the gametophyte of ferns and related plants.
- pulchritude — physical beauty; comeliness.
- pull hitter — a batter who tends to hit the ball to the same side of the field as that on which he or she stands at home plate.
- pyrrhuloxia — a cardinallike grosbeak, Cardinalis (Pyrrhuloxia) sinuatus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a bill superficially resembling that of a parrot.
- republisher — a person who republishes
- rubbish tip — dump for refuse
- russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
- shipbuilder — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- sphaeridium — a round body found on sea urchins
- springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
- spur blight — a disease of raspberries, characterized by reddish-brown spots on the stems, caused by a fungus, Didymella applanata.
- 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.
- sun-worship — the act of worshipping the sun as a deity
- superbright — exceptionally bright
- supercherie — deception, trickery or an instance thereof
- superheroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- surgeonship — the position or responsibility of a surgeon
- survey ship — a vessel designed to carry out research and surveying
- therapeutic — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
- thoroughpin — an abnormal swelling just above the hock of a horse, usually appearing on both sides of the leg and sometimes causing lameness.
- triphibious — employing or involving land, naval, and air forces in a combined operation.
- triphyllous — having three leaves.
- trisulphide — any sulphide containing three sulphur atoms per molecule
- trumpetfish — any of several fishes of the family Aulostomidae, having a long, tubular snout, as the slender, brown-flecked Aulostomus maculatus, inhabiting waters on both sides of the tropical Atlantic Ocean, having the habit of orienting vertically in the water and capturing its prey from that position.
- trusteeship — Law. the office or function of a trustee.
- tulip chair — an armchair designed by Eero Saarinen in 1956, having a contoured seat of molded plastic supported by a slender, stemlike pedestal of plastic-covered cast metal that terminates in a large, flat, round foot.
- turnip moth — a common noctuid moth, Agrotis segetum, drab grey-brown in colour, the larvae of which feed on root crops and brassica stems
- unhampering — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
- unperishing — not perishing; enduring
- unprophetic — not prophetic, not seeing future events correctly
- upper sixth — (in England, Wales and Northern Ireland) the final year of sixth form
- uprightness — erect or vertical, as in position or posture.
- xerophilous — Botany. growing in or adapted to dry, especially dry and hot, regions.