11-letter words containing h, o, s, e, a
- paint horse — paint (def 6).
- 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.
- panel house — a brothel having rooms with secret entrances, as sliding panels, for admitting panel thieves.
- paranephros — the adrenal gland
- parishioner — one of the community or inhabitants of a parish.
- pathologies — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
- pea-shooter — a tube through which dried peas, beans, or small pellets are blown, used as a toy.
- peach stone — the stone in the centre of the fruit the peach
- pechora sea — the SE part of the Barents Sea, northwest of Russia
- pedagoguish — resembling or reminiscent of a pedagogue
- phagocytose — phagocytize.
- phanerogams — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
- phonematics — phonemics.
- phonetastic — (communications) A CTI product from Callware. Phonetastic employs if-then rules and customer records to tell those receiving calls who is calling (based on ANI and DNIS) and to determine how the call should be routed, e.g. to a certain sales representative or to the general sales department; receive high-priority treatment; receive a fax-back, etc.
- phosphatase — any of several classes of esterases of varying specificity that catalyze the hydrolysis of phosphoric esters.
- phosphatide — phospholipid.
- phosphatize — to treat with phosphates.
- phosphorate — Also, phosphorize. Chemistry. to combine or impregnate with phosphorus.
- photo essay — a group of photographs, usually with supplementary text, that conveys a unified story and is published as a book or as a feature in a magazine or newspaper.
- photostated — a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.
- phrase book — a small book containing everyday phrases and sentences and their equivalents in a foreign language, written especially for travelers.
- phraseogram — a written symbol or combination of symbols, as in shorthand, used to represent a phrase.
- phraseology — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
- physiolater — somebody who worships nature
- ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
- post chaise — a four-wheeled coach for rapid transportation of passengers and mail, used in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
- postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- praetorship — the office of a praetor.
- preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- psammophile — a plant or animal that thrives in sand
- psammophyte — a plant that grows in sand or sandy soil.
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- psychagogue — a necromancer
- psychodelia — the production of, or the culture associated with, psychedelic experiences
- radnorshire — a historic county in Powys, in E Wales.
- rain shower — a brief rainfall, usually of variable intensity.
- 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
- reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
- repair shop — garage, body shop: for vehicles
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
- rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
- 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
- roman shade — a window shade that, when raised, is drawn up into a series of concertina folds.
- rose chafer — a tan scarabaeid beetle, Macrodactylus subspinosis, that feeds on the flowers and foliage of roses, grapes, peach trees, etc.
- saddle horn — horn (def 19).
- saddle shoe — an oxford with a saddle of contrasting color.
- saddlecloth — Horse Racing. a cloth placed over the saddle of a racehorse bearing the horse's number.
- safe harbor — a harbor considered safe for a ship, as in wartime or during a storm at sea.