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11-letter words containing o, r, t, h, p, s

  • psychometry — Psychology. psychometrics.
  • psychomotor — of or relating to a response involving both motor and psychological components.
  • reject shop — a shop that sells damaged or imperfect products that cannot be sold at the full price
  • retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
  • reupholster — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
  • rh positive — See under Rh factor.
  • rh-positive — See under Rh factor.
  • rheotropism — the effect of a current of water upon the direction of plant growth.
  • rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
  • rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
  • rope stitch — (in embroidery) a stitch formed from the entwining of stitches.
  • saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
  • school trip — educational outing
  • senatorship — the office or position of a senator
  • serotherapy — therapy by means of injections of a serum obtained especially from an immune animal.
  • shoot craps — to play this game
  • shot putter — a sportsperson who competes in the shot put
  • shot-putter — a participant in shot put.
  • showstopper — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
  • 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.
  • sophistries — Sophistries are clever arguments that sound convincing but are in fact false.
  • spermophyte — spermatophyte.
  • spherometer — an instrument for measuring the curvature of spheres and curved surfaces.
  • spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
  • spirochaete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
  • sport shirt — a long- or short-sleeved soft shirt for informal wear by men, having a squared-off shirttail that may be left outside the trousers, usually worn without a tie.
  • sports hall — venue for physical activities
  • sports shop — a shop where sports clothes and equipment are sold
  • stasimorphy — structural modification by arrested development
  • stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stepbrother — one's stepfather's son or stepmother's son by a previous marriage.
  • stereograph — a single or double picture for a stereoscope.
  • stereophony — the state or condition of being stereophonic.
  • stop chorus — a solo during which the rhythm section plays only the first beat of each phrase of music
  • stylography — the art of writing, tracing, drawing, etc., with a style.
  • sulphurator — an apparatus used in treating anything with sulphur or sulphur fumes, such as in fumigating
  • sulphurwort — an umbelliferous perennial plant, Peucedanum officinale, of which the roots produce a smell like that of sulphur
  • supergrowth — exceptional growth; very rapid growth
  • supersmooth — exceptionally smooth
  • telesphorus — pope a.d. 125?–136?.
  • terpsichore — Classical Mythology. the Muse of dancing and choral song.
  • the proteas — the national cricket team of South Africa
  • the support — an actor or group of actors playing subordinate roles
  • the tropics — that part of the earth's surface between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn; the Torrid Zone
  • the vapours — a depressed mental condition believed originally to be the result of vaporous exhalations from the stomach
  • thermoscope — a device that indicates a change in temperature, esp one that does not measure the actual temperature
  • thornproofs — garments that resist penetration by thorns
  • thrift shop — a retail store that sells secondhand goods at reduced prices.
  • thrust upon — If something is thrust upon you, you are forced to have it, deal with it, or experience it.
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