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11-letter words containing o, t, h, e, r, i

  • rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
  • roosterfish — a large, edible fish, Nematistius pectoralis, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Pacific Ocean, having the first dorsal fin composed of brightly colored filamentous rays.
  • rope stitch — (in embroidery) a stitch formed from the entwining of stitches.
  • schorlomite — a mineral that is black in colour and belongs to the garnet group
  • senatorship — the office or position of a senator
  • shergottite — a type of igneous rock or meteorite thought to originate on Mars
  • sherrington — Sir Charles Scott, 1861–1952, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1932.
  • shoe-string — a shoelace.
  • short field — the area of the infield between third base and second, covered by the shortstop.
  • short title — an abridged listing in a catalog or bibliography, giving only such essential information as the author's name and the book's title, publisher, and date and place of publication.
  • short-lived — living or lasting only a little while.
  • short-timer — a person, as a soldier, who has a short period of time left to serve on a tour of duty.
  • shorthaired — (of an animal) having hair that is short and lies close to the body.
  • shortweight — to give less than the weight charged for: The firm is accused of shortweighting grain.
  • shower unit — fitted shower
  • six-shooter — a revolver from which six shots can be fired without reloading.
  • somewhither — to some unspecified place; somewhere.
  • sophistries — Sophistries are clever arguments that sound convincing but are in fact false.
  • sothic year — the fixed year of the ancient Egyptians, determined by the heliacal rising of Sirius, and equivalent to 365 days.
  • south river — a borough in central New Jersey.
  • southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
  • southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
  • southernize — to make or become southern
  • 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.
  • stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity
  • stichometry — the practice of writing a prose text in lines, often of slightly differing lengths, that correspond to units of sense and indicate phrasal rhythms.
  • strike home — to deliver an effective blow
  • switch over — If you switch over when you are watching television, you change to another channel.
  • technicolor — (often lowercase) flamboyant or lurid, as in color, meaning, or detail.
  • terpsichore — Classical Mythology. the Muse of dancing and choral song.
  • the cariboo — a region in the W foothills of the Cariboo Mountains, scene of a gold rush beginning in 1860
  • the cornish — the natives or inhabitants of Cornwall
  • the forties — the numbers 40–49 in a particular century, esp the 20th century
  • the inferno — hell; the infernal region
  • the moer in — furious; enraged
  • the trizone — the area of Germany from 1945-49, later to become West Germany, comprising three zones occupied by Britain, USA and France respectively
  • the tropics — that part of the earth's surface between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn; the Torrid Zone
  • theobromine — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, C 7 H 8 N 4 O 2 , an isomer of theophylline and lower homologue of caffeine, occurring in tea and obtained from the cacao bean: used chiefly as a diuretic, myocardial stimulant, and vasodilator.
  • theocentric — having God as the focal point of thoughts, interests, and feelings: theocentric philosophy.
  • theodorakis — Mikis (ˈmikis). born 1925, Greek composer, who wrote the music for the films Zorba the Greek (1965) and Serpico (1973): imprisoned (1967–70) for his opposition to the Greek military government
  • theodore ii — pope a.d. 897.
  • theomorphic — having the form or likeness of God or a deity.
  • theoretical — given to, forming, or dealing with theories; speculative.
  • there is no — If you say there is no doing a particular thing, you mean that it is very difficult or impossible to do that thing.
  • theriolatry — the worship of theriomorphic deities or deities that are a combination of human and animal forms
  • thermionics — the branch of physics that deals with thermionic phenomena.
  • thermobaric — (of an explosive device or explosion) detonated by means of an explosive substance reacting spontaneously with air
  • thermocline — a layer of water in an ocean or certain lakes, where the temperature gradient is greater than that of the warmer layer above and the colder layer below.
  • thermoduric — (of certain microorganisms) able to survive high temperatures, as during pasteurization.
  • thermogenic — causing or pertaining to the production of heat.
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