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11-letter words containing h, o, l, p, r, a

  • philography — the collecting of autographs, especially those of famous persons.
  • phlebograph — an instrument for recording the venous pulse.
  • phraseology — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
  • physiolater — somebody who worships nature
  • physiolatry — the worship of nature
  • pilot chart — any of a number of charts issued to mariners by the U.S. Hydrographic Office and showing meteorological, hydrographic, and navigational conditions prevailing, or likely to prevail, subsequent to the date of issue in some part of the world: issued monthly for most areas.
  • placeholder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
  • planography — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
  • planthopper — any member of a large and varied group of homopterous insects that are related to the leafhoppers and the spittlebugs but rarely damage cultivated plants.
  • plateholder — a lightproof container for a photographic plate, loaded into the camera with the plate and having a slide that is removed before exposing.
  • plerophoria — full conviction
  • ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
  • polarograph — a device for analysing ions in solution by using an electrolytic cell with a very small cathode
  • pole hammer — a shafted weapon having a spiked hammer head.
  • polygrapher — a person who employs a code cipher
  • polygraphic — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
  • pre-holiday — a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
  • procephalic — of or relating to the head.
  • prophetical — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
  • prophylaxis — Medicine/Medical. the preventing of disease. the prevention of a specific disease, as by studying the biological behavior, transmission, etc., of its causative agent and applying a series of measures against it.
  • prothalamia — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
  • prothallium — Botany. the gametophyte of ferns and related plants.
  • prothalloid — resembling a prothallus
  • pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
  • pyelography — the science or technique of making photographs of the kidneys, renal pelves, and ureters by means of x-rays, after the injection of an opaque solution or of a radiopaque dye.
  • pyrrhuloxia — a cardinallike grosbeak, Cardinalis (Pyrrhuloxia) sinuatus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a bill superficially resembling that of a parrot.
  • reproachful — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
  • retrophilia — a strong liking for things from the past
  • rhapsodical — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
  • rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
  • 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
  • sarcophagal — related to or depicted on sarcophagi
  • scholarship — learning; knowledge acquired by study; the academic attainments of a scholar.
  • sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
  • spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
  • splashboard — a board, guard, or screen to protect from splashing, as a dashboard of a vehicle or a guard placed over a wheel to intercept water, dirt, etc.
  • splashproof — resistant to splashing
  • sports hall — venue for physical activities
  • stylography — the art of writing, tracing, drawing, etc., with a style.
  • sulphurator — an apparatus used in treating anything with sulphur or sulphur fumes, such as in fumigating
  • thermopylae — a pass in E Greece, between the cliffs of Mt. Oeta and the Gulf of Lamia: Persian defeat of the Spartans 480 b.c.
  • thorn apple — any poisonous plant belonging to the genus Datura, of the nightshade family, the species of which bear capsules covered with prickly spines, especially the jimson weed, D. stramonium.
  • trophically — of or relating to nutrition; concerned in nutritive processes.
  • trophoblast — the layer of extraembryonic ectoderm that chiefly nourishes the embryo or develops into fetal membranes with nutritive functions.
  • trophoplasm — the cytoplasm that is involved in the nutritive processes of a cell
  • worshipable — Capable of being worshiped; worthy of veneration.
  • xylographed — Simple past tense and past participle of xylograph.
  • xylographer — A person who makes xylographs.
  • xylographic — Of or pertaining to xylographs.
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