11-letter words containing o, r, t, h
- prochlorite — a dark green member of the chlorite group, usually foliated.
- proctorship — a person appointed to keep watch over students at examinations.
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prohibition — the act of prohibiting.
- prohibitive — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- prohibitory — prohibitive.
- proof sheet — a printer's proof.
- prophethood — a person who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration.
- prophetical — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- propter hoc — because of this.
- prosthetics — an artificial body part; a prosthesis: Hundreds of amputees volunteered to test the new prosthetics.
- prosthetist — a person skilled in making or fitting prosthetic devices.
- prothalamia — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
- prothallium — Botany. the gametophyte of ferns and related plants.
- prothalloid — resembling a prothallus
- prothoracic — relating to an insect's prothorax
- prothrombin — a plasma protein involved in blood coagulation that on activation by factors in the plasma is converted to thrombin.
- protolithic — noting or pertaining to stone implements selected according to suitability of the form to a particular purpose without definite shaping on the part of the user.
- protopathic — noting or pertaining to a general, nondiscriminating responsiveness to pain or temperature stimuli (opposed to epicritic).
- protophilic — having or involving an affinity for hydrogen ions (protons)
- protophloem — the part of the primary phloem that develops first, consisting of narrow, thin-walled cells.
- protophytic — pertaining to the class Protophyta
- prototrophy — the state of being a prototroph
- provostship — the office of a provost
- proxy fight — a contest between factions of stockholders in a company, in which each group attempts to gain control by soliciting signed proxy statements for sufficient votes.
- 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.
- ptochocracy — government by the poor
- put through — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- pyrotechnic — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- pythagorean — of or relating to Pythagoras, to his school, or to his doctrines.
- quoteworthy — quotable.
- rabbit hole — opening of a rabbit's burrow
- radiothermy — therapy that utilizes the heat from a shortwave radio apparatus or diathermy machine.
- 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.
- re-enthrone — to enthrone (a king, queen, etc) again
- readthrough — reading (def 1).
- reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
- reauthorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- redhibition — the nullification of a sale because of a defect in the article sold of such nature as to make it totally or virtually unusable or as to have prevented the purchase if known to the buyer.
- redhibitory — the nullification of a sale because of a defect in the article sold of such nature as to make it totally or virtually unusable or as to have prevented the purchase if known to the buyer.
- rehydration — to restore moisture or fluid to (something dehydrated).
- rehypnotize — to hypnotize again
- reject shop — a shop that sells damaged or imperfect products that cannot be sold at the full price
- 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.
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
- retinopathy — any diseased condition of the retina, especially one that is noninflammatory.