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11-letter words containing l, h, e, r

  • phyllophore — the terminal bud of a stem, especially of the stem of a palm.
  • physiolater — somebody who worships nature
  • phytosterol — Biochemistry. any of various sterols obtained from plants.
  • pigeonholer — someone who likes to pigeonhole people or things
  • pill pusher — a medical doctor, especially one who too readily prescribes medication.
  • pill-pusher — a medical doctor, especially one who too readily prescribes medication.
  • placeholder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
  • plane chart — a chart used in plane sailing, in which the lines of latitude and longitude are straight and parallel
  • plane crash — an accident in which an aircraft hits land or water and is damaged or destroyed
  • planisphere — a map of half or more of the celestial sphere with a device for indicating the part of a given location visible at a given time.
  • plank-sheer — a plank or timber covering the upper ends of the frames of a wooden vessel
  • planthopper — any member of a large and varied group of homopterous insects that are related to the leafhoppers and the spittlebugs but rarely damage cultivated plants.
  • plateholder — a lightproof container for a photographic plate, loaded into the camera with the plate and having a slide that is removed before exposing.
  • platyrrhine — Anthropology. having a broad, flat-bridged nose.
  • pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
  • pleomorphic — of, relating to, or characterized by pleomorphism; polymorphous.
  • plerophoria — full conviction
  • ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
  • pole hammer — a shafted weapon having a spiked hammer head.
  • polygrapher — a person who employs a code cipher
  • porto velho — a state in W Brazil. 93,815 sq. mi. (242,980 sq. km). Capital: Pôrto Velho.
  • post-holder — a person who has a particular job or position
  • power lunch — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
  • pre-ethical — not governed by ethics, or not having an ethical or moral aspect
  • pre-holiday — a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
  • preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
  • prehensible — able to be seized or grasped.
  • prelateship — the rank of a prelate
  • preluncheon — a light meal before lunch
  • prep school — preparatory school.
  • preschedule — taking place ahead of schedule
  • preschooler — a child below the official school starting age, usually a child up to age five.
  • priest-hole — a secret chamber in certain houses in England, built as a hiding place for Roman Catholic priests when they were proscribed in the 16th and 17th centuries
  • procephalic — of or relating to the head.
  • prochlorite — a dark green member of the chlorite group, usually foliated.
  • prophetical — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
  • protophloem — the part of the primary phloem that develops first, consisting of narrow, thin-walled cells.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • pyelography — the science or technique of making photographs of the kidneys, renal pelves, and ureters by means of x-rays, after the injection of an opaque solution or of a radiopaque dye.
  • rabbit hole — opening of a rabbit's burrow
  • ralph nader — Ralph, born 1934, U.S. lawyer, author, political reformer, and consumer advocate.
  • range light — one of a pattern of navigation lights, usually fixed ashore, used by vessels for manoeuvring in narrow channels at night
  • rathskeller — (in Germany) the cellar of a town hall, often used as a beer hall or restaurant.
  • rattle-bush — blue false indigo.
  • razor shell — any of various sand-burrowing bivalve molluscs of the genera Ensis and Solen, which have a long tubular shell
  • rechallenge — a call or summons to engage in any contest, as of skill, strength, etc.
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