11-letter words containing h, o, a, r
- quadraphony — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- rabbit hole — opening of a rabbit's burrow
- radio shack — a room or structure, as on a ship, for housing radio equipment.
- radiography — the production of radiographs.
- radiophonic — a radiotelephone.
- radiothermy — therapy that utilizes the heat from a shortwave radio apparatus or diathermy machine.
- radnorshire — a historic county in Powys, in E Wales.
- rail anchor — a fastening device for attaching the base of a rail to a crosstie.
- rain shadow — a region in the lee of mountains that receives less rainfall than the region windward of the mountains.
- rain shower — a brief rainfall, usually of variable intensity.
- ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude
- 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.
- ranch house — the house of the owner of a ranch, usually of one story and with a low-pitched roof.
- razor shell — any of various sand-burrowing bivalve molluscs of the genera Ensis and Solen, which have a long tubular shell
- razor-sharp — blade, etc.: dangerously sharp
- readthrough — reading (def 1).
- reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
- reauthorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- rehydration — to restore moisture or fluid to (something dehydrated).
- remand home — a detention home for juvenile offenders aged 8–16 years.
- renographic — of or pertaining to renography, using or produced by a renogram
- repair shop — garage, body shop: for vehicles
- reproachful — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- reprography — the reproduction and duplication of documents, written materials, drawings, designs, etc., by any process making use of light rays or photographic means, including offset printing, microfilming, photography, office duplicating, and the like.
- 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
- rhabdocoele — any member of the turbellarian flatworm order Neorhabdocoela, comprising both freshwater and marine species, having a simple saclike digestive system.
- rhabdomancy — divination by means of a rod or wand, especially in discovering ores, springs of water, etc.
- rhabdomyoma — a benign tumor made up of striated muscular tissue.
- rhabdovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, including the rabies virus.
- rhagadiform — of or relating to rhagades
- rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
- rhapsodical — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
- rhetorician — an expert in the art of rhetoric.
- rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
- rhinorrhoea — an excessive discharge of mucus from the nose.
- rhizanthous — bearing flowers directly from the root.
- rhizoctonia — any of various soil-inhabiting fungi of the genus Rhizoctonia, some species of which are destructive to cultivated plants, causing damping off of seedlings, foliage blight, root and stem cankers, and rot of storage organs.
- rhizomatous — a rootlike subterranean stem, commonly horizontal in position, that usually produces roots below and sends up shoots progressively from the upper surface.
- rhododaphne — a shrub with narrow, poisonous evergreen leaves and attractive pink flowers, also known as oleander or rosebay
- rhône-alpes — a region of E France: mainly mountainous, rising to the edge of the Massif Central in the west and the French Alps in the east; drained by the Rivers Rhône, Saône, and Isère
- rhyme royal — a form of verse introduced into English by Chaucer, consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter in which there are three rhymes, the first line rhyming with the third, the second with the fourth and fifth, and the sixth with the seventh.
- richard hoe — Richard, 1812–86, U.S. inventor and manufacturer of printing-press equipment.
- richard roe — a fictitious name used in legal proceedings for a male party whose true name is not known, used especially as the second such name when two male persons are involved whose real names have not been ascertained.
- right about — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
- road hockey — an imitation of the game of ice hockey played typically by children without ice skates on a public road.
- roadholding — A vehicle's roadholding is how easy it is to control safely in difficult driving conditions or when going round bends.
- rockhampton — a city in E Queensland, in E Australia.
- roh tae woo — born 1932, president of South Korea 1988–93.