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11-letter words containing m, h, o, r

  • psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
  • psychometer — a device for measuring mental or psychological activity
  • psychometry — Psychology. psychometrics.
  • psychomotor — of or relating to a response involving both motor and psychological components.
  • pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
  • radiothermy — therapy that utilizes the heat from a shortwave radio apparatus or diathermy machine.
  • ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude
  • ramos-horta — José, born 1949, East Timorese resistance leader, political activist (1975–99) during Indonesian occupation, and foreign minister from independence in 2000 to 2006; president since 2007: Nobel prize 1996.
  • remand home — a detention home for juvenile offenders aged 8–16 years.
  • remote echo — (communications)   (Obsolete: "full-duplex") A mode of operation of communicating programs or devices in which the sending system does not display the characters the user enters, but only sends them to the remote system which then "echoes" them back to be displayed to the user. This lets the operator see not only typing errors, but also transmission errors. This is now the usual mode of most systems with remote users. Contrast: local echo.
  • rhabdomancy — divination by means of a rod or wand, especially in discovering ores, springs of water, etc.
  • rhabdomyoma — a benign tumor made up of striated muscular tissue.
  • rhagadiform — of or relating to rhagades
  • rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
  • rheotropism — the effect of a current of water upon the direction of plant growth.
  • rhizomatous — a rootlike subterranean stem, commonly horizontal in position, that usually produces roots below and sends up shoots progressively from the upper surface.
  • rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
  • rhyme royal — a form of verse introduced into English by Chaucer, consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter in which there are three rhymes, the first line rhyming with the third, the second with the fourth and fifth, and the sixth with the seventh.
  • right money — any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
  • river-mouth — an estuary
  • roche limit — the minimum distance below which a moon orbiting a celestial body would be disrupted by tidal forces or below which a moon would not have formed.
  • rockhampton — a city in E Queensland, in E Australia.
  • roman punch — a lemon-water ice flavored with rum or other alcoholic beverage.
  • roman shade — a window shade that, when raised, is drawn up into a series of concertina folds.
  • rompishness — the state or condition of being rompish
  • room father — a male volunteer, often the father of a student, who assists an elementary-school teacher, as by working with students who need extra help.
  • room mother — a female volunteer, often the mother of a student, who assists an elementary-school teacher, as by working with students who need extra help.
  • 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.
  • rough music — (formerly) a loud cacophony created with tin pans, drums, etc, esp as a protest or demonstration of indignation outside someone's house
  • route march — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
  • scaramouche — a stock character in commedia dell'arte and farce who is a cowardly braggart, easily beaten and frightened.
  • schoolmarms — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
  • schorlomite — a mineral that is black in colour and belongs to the garnet group
  • scrimshoner — a person who makes scrimshaw
  • seismograph — any of various instruments for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes.
  • serrano ham — cured ham from Spain
  • sex hormone — any of a class of steroid hormones that regulate the growth and function of the reproductive organs or stimulate the development of the secondary sexual characteristics.
  • shameworthy — deserving shame; denoting something a person ought to be ashamed of
  • shed dormer — a dormer with a flat roof sloping in the same direction as the roof from which the dormer projects.
  • short metre — a stanza form, used esp for hymns, consisting of four lines, the third of which has eight syllables, while the rest have six
  • short money — (in Britain) the annual payment made to Opposition parties in the House of Commons to help them pay for certain services necessary to the carrying out of their parliamentary duties; established in 1975
  • short-timer — a person, as a soldier, who has a short period of time left to serve on a tour of duty.
  • shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
  • show jumper — A show jumper is a person who takes part in the sport of show jumping.
  • shower room — a room which contains a shower
  • showrooming — the practice of looking at an item of merchandise in a shop, often using a smartphone app to compare its price elsewhere, before buying it from an online distributor
  • shuddersome — tending to shudder
  • shunt motor — A shunt motor is a direct current motor whose two windings are in parallel, with the same voltage across each.
  • small hours — pre-dawn
  • smallholder — owner of small plot of land
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