11-letter words containing h, o, a, r
- roman punch — a lemon-water ice flavored with rum or other alcoholic beverage.
- roman shade — a window shade that, when raised, is drawn up into a series of concertina folds.
- room father — a male volunteer, often the father of a student, who assists an elementary-school teacher, as by working with students who need extra help.
- rose chafer — a tan scarabaeid beetle, Macrodactylus subspinosis, that feeds on the flowers and foliage of roses, grapes, peach trees, etc.
- rough draft — writing: unfinished version
- rough paper — paper that is used for writing a rough copy
- rough trade — male homosexual prostitution, especially involving brutality or sadism.
- roundarched — having semicircular arches
- roundheaded — (of a person) possessing a round head; brachycephalic.
- route march — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
- royal burgh — (in Scotland) a burgh that was established by a royal charter granted directly by the sovereign
- royal flush — the five highest cards of a suit.
- russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
- saddle horn — horn (def 19).
- safe harbor — a harbor considered safe for a ship, as in wartime or during a storm at sea.
- sand hopper — beach flea.
- sap orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
- saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- sarcophagal — related to or depicted on sarcophagi
- sarcophagus — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
- sash ribbon — a strip of steel or aluminum alloy for connecting a vertically sliding window sash with a counterweight.
- scaramouche — a stock character in commedia dell'arte and farce who is a cowardly braggart, easily beaten and frightened.
- scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
- scattershot — delivered over a wide area and at random; generalized and indiscriminate: a scattershot attack on the proposed program.
- scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- 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.
- scholarship — learning; knowledge acquired by study; the academic attainments of a scholar.
- schollander — Donald ("Don") born 1946, U.S. swimmer.
- school year — the months of the year during which school is open and attendance at school is required.
- schoolcraft — Henry Rowe [roh] /roʊ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1864, U.S. explorer, ethnologist, and author.
- schoolmarms — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
- schoolwards — in the direction of school
- schwarzkopf — Elisabeth, 1915–2006, German soprano, born in Poland.
- sea-poacher — poacher1 (def 2).
- sefer torah — Sepher Torah.
- seismograph — any of various instruments for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes.
- senatorship — the office or position of a senator
- serotherapy — therapy by means of injections of a serum obtained especially from an immune animal.
- serrano ham — cured ham from Spain
- servanthood — the condition of being a servant
- shade-grown — grown in the shade, especially in artificial shade, as under a cloth.
- shadow roll — sheepskin that is placed just below the eyes of a pacing horse in order to prevent it from seeing moving shadows cast by its body.
- shadowgraph — a picture produced by throwing a shadow, as of the hands, on a lighted screen, wall, or the like.
- shameworthy — deserving shame; denoting something a person ought to be ashamed of
- shareholder — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- sharonville — a town in SW Ohio.
- sharp-nosed — having a thin, pointed nose.
- shcherbakov — a former name (1946–57) of Andropov.
- shear force — Shear force is force that makes one surface of a substance move over another parallel surface.
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.