11-letter words containing h, o, r, t, e
- statehooder — a person who supports or advocates the attainment of statehood for a territory, colony, or the like, especially for Puerto Rico.
- steatorrhea — the presence of excess fat in the stools, usually caused by disease of the pancreas or intestine, and characterized by chronic diarrhea and weight loss.
- stenochrome — a printed design made using stenochromy
- stenochromy — the art of printing designs made of more than one colour using a single impression
- stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity
- stepbrother — one's stepfather's son or stepmother's son by a previous marriage.
- stereograph — a single or double picture for a stereoscope.
- stereophony — the state or condition of being stereophonic.
- stethometer — an instrument for measuring the expansion of the chest and abdomen during respiration.
- stichometry — the practice of writing a prose text in lines, often of slightly differing lengths, that correspond to units of sense and indicate phrasal rhythms.
- stock horse — a horse or pony used in herding cattle.
- stockholder — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
- storm house — a storm cellar.
- stretch out — lie down, sprawl
- strike home — to deliver an effective blow
- stroke hole — (in a handicap match) a hole at which players with a handicap deduct a stroke from the number taken to play the hole.
- supergrowth — exceptional growth; very rapid growth
- supersmooth — exceptionally smooth
- switch over — If you switch over when you are watching television, you change to another channel.
- tacheometer — a type of theodolite designed for the rapid measurement of distances, elevations, and directions
- tacheometry — the measurement of distance, etc, using a tacheometer
- tachysterol — an isomer of ergosterol, C28H44O, formed during the production of calciferol by the irradiation of ergosterol
- tautochrone — a curve upon which a moving object will reach a certain point at the same time through gravity from whichever point it starts
- tchervonetz — chervonets.
- tcp theorem — the proposition that all the laws of physics are unchanged by the combined operations of charge conjugation (C), space inversion (P), and time reversal (T).
- technicolor — (often lowercase) flamboyant or lurid, as in color, meaning, or detail.
- technocracy — a theory and movement, prominent about 1932, advocating control of industrial resources, reform of financial institutions, and reorganization of the social system, based on the findings of technologists and engineers.
- telesphorus — pope a.d. 125?–136?.
- tenorrhaphy — suture of a tendon.
- tenterhooks — one of the hooks or bent nails that hold cloth stretched on a tenter.
- tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
- terpsichore — Classical Mythology. the Muse of dancing and choral song.
- terry-cloth — the loop formed by the pile of a fabric when left uncut.
- tetrahedron — Geometry. a solid contained by four plane faces; a triangular pyramid.
- thaumatrope — a card with different pictures on opposite sides, as a horse on one side and a rider on the other, which appear as if combined when the card is twirled rapidly, thus illustrating the persistence of visual impressions.
- the argonne — a wooded region of NE France: scene of major battles in both World Wars
- the borders — the area either side of the border between England and Scotland
- the cariboo — a region in the W foothills of the Cariboo Mountains, scene of a gold rush beginning in 1860
- the cornish — the natives or inhabitants of Cornwall
- the country — the outlying area or area furthest from the finish of a sports ground or racecourse
- the creator — an epithet of God
- the forties — the numbers 40–49 in a particular century, esp the 20th century
- the gorbals — a district of Glasgow, formerly known for its slums
- the horrors — a fit of extreme nervousness, panic, depression, revulsion, etc.
- the inferno — hell; the infernal region
- the moer in — furious; enraged
- the narrows — strait between Upper & Lower New York Bay, separating Staten Island & Long Island
- the network — network, the
- the nonpoor — people who are not poor