11-letter words containing h, o, r, s, c, p
- nephroscope — (surgery) An instrument used to examine the kidney through an inserted tube.
- officership — a person who holds a position of rank or authority in the army, navy, air force, or any similar organization, especially one who holds a commission.
- orthopedics — (used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments.
- orthoscopic — pertaining to, characterized by, or produced by normal vision.
- panchreston — a proposed explanation intended to address a complex problem by trying to account for all possible contingencies but typically proving to be too broadly conceived and therefore oversimplified to be of any practical use.
- pechora sea — the SE part of the Barents Sea, northwest of Russia
- perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
- phoniatrics — the study and treatment of voice disorders.
- pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
- pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
- polychroism — the ability of a crystal to absorb different wavelengths of light and thus to display multiple colours
- port neches — a town in SE Texas.
- prehistoric — of or relating to the time or a period prior to recorded history: The dinosaur is a prehistoric beast.
- prep school — preparatory school.
- preschooler — a child below the official school starting age, usually a child up to age five.
- pro-chinese — the standard language of China, based on the speech of Beijing; Mandarin.
- prochronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date earlier than the actual one; prolepsis.
- proctorship — a person appointed to keep watch over students at examinations.
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- prosobranch — a gastropod mollusc of the subclass Prosobranchia, which includes conches, limpets, abalones, and numerous aquatic and terrestrial snails
- prosthetics — an artificial body part; a prosthesis: Hundreds of amputees volunteered to test the new prosthetics.
- psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
- psychograph — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
- psychometer — a device for measuring mental or psychological activity
- psychometry — Psychology. psychometrics.
- psychomotor — of or relating to a response involving both motor and psychological components.
- record shop — store selling recorded music
- reject shop — a shop that sells damaged or imperfect products that cannot be sold at the full price
- rhapsodical — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
- rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
- rope stitch — (in embroidery) a stitch formed from the entwining of stitches.
- 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.
- scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- scholarship — learning; knowledge acquired by study; the academic attainments of a scholar.
- school trip — educational outing
- schwarzkopf — Elisabeth, 1915–2006, German soprano, born in Poland.
- sclerophyll — Also, sclerophyllous [skleer-uh-fil-uh s] /ˌsklɪər əˈfɪl əs/ (Show IPA). of, relating to, or exhibiting sclerophylly.
- scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
- scripophile — a person who practices scripophily.
- scripophily — the collecting by hobbyists of old stock certificates and bonds that have no intrinsic value other than their aesthetic appeal or relative rarity.
- sea-poacher — poacher1 (def 2).
- sepulchrous — of the nature of a sepulchre
- shoot craps — to play this game
- sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
- speech form — linguistic form.
- spirochaete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
- stop chorus — a solo during which the rhythm section plays only the first beat of each phrase of music