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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.
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