11-letter words containing h, u, r, l
- prothallium — Botany. the gametophyte of ferns and related plants.
- proud flesh — granulation tissue.
- pulchritude — physical beauty; comeliness.
- pull hitter — a batter who tends to hit the ball to the same side of the field as that on which he or she stands at home plate.
- pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
- purchasable — capable of being bought.
- purpleheart — the hard, purplish wood of any of several South American trees belonging to the genus Peltogyne, of the legume family, used for making furniture.
- pyrrhuloxia — a cardinallike grosbeak, Cardinalis (Pyrrhuloxia) sinuatus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a bill superficially resembling that of a parrot.
- quail-brush — a salt-tolerant, silvery gray shrub, Atriplex lentiformis breweri, of the amaranth family, native to southern California.
- rattle-bush — blue false indigo.
- relaunching — an act or instance of launching something again.
- reproachful — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- republisher — a person who republishes
- researchful — (of a book, academic paper etc) full of research, containing or built upon a great deal of research
- return half — the return part of a two-way ticket
- reupholster — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- rideau hall — (in Canada) the official residence of the Governor General, in Ottawa
- righteously — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
- ritual bath — a mikvah.
- rough lemon — a variety of lemon that has orange-yellow, rough-skinned fruit and is used as a rootstock for the cultivation of other citrus fruits.
- royal burgh — (in Scotland) a burgh that was established by a royal charter granted directly by the sovereign
- royal flush — the five highest cards of a suit.
- rude health — If someone is in rude health, they are strong and healthy.
- rush candle — a candle made from a dried, partly peeled rush that has been dipped in grease.
- rush family — the plant family Juncaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having narrow, grasslike leaves, small and greenish flowers, and capsular fruit with three compartments, comprising the true rushes.
- saltchucker — a saltwater angler
- sepulchrous — of the nature of a sepulchre
- shipbuilder — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- shroud-laid — noting a fiber rope of four strands laid right-handed with or without a heart.
- shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
- shutterless — lacking a shutter
- slaughtered — the killing or butchering of cattle, sheep, etc., especially for food.
- sleep rough — to spend the night in the open; be without a home or without shelter
- slough over — to gloss over; minimize
- small hours — pre-dawn
- solar house — a house designed to absorb and store solar heat.
- south tyrol — a former part of the Austrian state of Tyrol: ceded to Italy in 1919, becoming the Bolzano and Trento provinces of the Trentino-Alto Adige Autonomous Region. Area: 14 037 sq km (5420 sq miles)
- southlander — a person from the south
- southwardly — toward the south
- spur blight — a disease of raspberries, characterized by reddish-brown spots on the stems, caused by a fungus, Didymella applanata.
- strengthful — full of strength, strong
- subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
- subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- sulphhydryl — the univalent radical group -SH
- sulphurator — an apparatus used in treating anything with sulphur or sulphur fumes, such as in fumigating
- sulphureous — of the yellow colour of sulphur
- sulphurwort — an umbelliferous perennial plant, Peucedanum officinale, of which the roots produce a smell like that of sulphur
- superphylum — a category of related phyla within a kingdom.
- superschool — a large school
- supersleuth — a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.