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11-letter words containing n, e, p, h, r, o

  • pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
  • pondicherry — a union territory of India, on the Coromandel Coast: formerly the chief settlement of French India; territory includes Mahé (on the Malabar Coast), Karikal, and Yanaon. 181 sq. mi. (469 sq. km).
  • port neches — a town in SE Texas.
  • powder horn — a powder flask made from the horn of a cow or ox.
  • power chain — an endless chain for transmitting motion and power between sprockets on shafts with parallel axes.
  • power lunch — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
  • preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
  • preluncheon — a light meal before lunch
  • pro-chinese — the standard language of China, based on the speech of Beijing; Mandarin.
  • prophesying — to foretell or predict.
  • prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
  • pyrotechnic — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
  • pythagorean — of or relating to Pythagoras, to his school, or to his doctrines.
  • rehypnotize — to hypnotize again
  • renographic — of or pertaining to renography, using or produced by a renogram
  • retinopathy — any diseased condition of the retina, especially one that is noninflammatory.
  • rhododaphne — a shrub with narrow, poisonous evergreen leaves and attractive pink flowers, also known as oleander or rosebay
  • 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
  • rompishness — the state or condition of being rompish
  • rope-length — a length of standard climbing rope, normally 50–60m
  • sand hopper — beach flea.
  • scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
  • senatorship — the office or position of a senator
  • sharp-nosed — having a thin, pointed nose.
  • smart phone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
  • snapshooter — an amateur photographer, especially one who takes snapshots with a simple camera.
  • sonographer — a diagnostic technician who operates a sonograph
  • springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
  • stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stereophony — the state or condition of being stereophonic.
  • surgeonship — the position or responsibility of a surgeon
  • tenorrhaphy — suture of a tendon.
  • tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
  • the nonpoor — people who are not poor
  • thermophone — an electroacoustic transducer that forms sound waves by the expansion and contraction of the air adjacent to a conductor that varies in temperature according to the magnitude of the current passing through it; formerly used to calibrate microphones.
  • thorn apple — any poisonous plant belonging to the genus Datura, of the nightshade family, the species of which bear capsules covered with prickly spines, especially the jimson weed, D. stramonium.
  • unhoped for — (esp of something pleasant) not anticipated; unexpected
  • unhoped-for — unexpected; unanticipated: an unhoped-for piece of good luck.
  • unprophetic — not prophetic, not seeing future events correctly
  • venographic — of or relating to venography
  • witherspoonJohn, 1723–94, U.S. theologian and statesman, born in Scotland.
  • xanthophore — a chromatophore containing a yellow pigment, as in some cold-blooded animals.
  • xenographic — Of or pertaining to xenography.
  • xenomorphic — in an unusual form; having a strange form.
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