11-letter words containing p, a, r, i, s, h
- preemphasis — a process of increasing the amplitude of certain frequencies relative to others in a signal in order to help them override noise, complemented by deemphasis before final reproduction of the signal being received.
- prehispanic — Spanish.
- prelateship — the rank of a prelate
- prickly ash — Also called Northern prickly ash, toothache tree. a citrus shrub or small tree, Zanthoxylum americanum, having aromatic leaves and usually prickly branches.
- primateship — primacy (def 2).
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prophylaxis — Medicine/Medical. the preventing of disease. the prevention of a specific disease, as by studying the biological behavior, transmission, etc., of its causative agent and applying a series of measures against it.
- psaligraphy — the art of cutting out silhouettes
- psychiatric — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- rapid chess — a game of chess played within a fixed amount of time, usually 30 minutes per player for all moves.
- re-emphasis — special stress laid upon, or importance attached to, anything: The president's statement gave emphasis to the budgetary crisis.
- reemphasize — to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
- repair shop — garage, body shop: for vehicles
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
- rhapsodical — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
- rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
- russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
- saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- scholarship — learning; knowledge acquired by study; the academic attainments of a scholar.
- seismograph — any of various instruments for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes.
- senatorship — the office or position of a senator
- serigrapher — someone who engages in serigraphy
- serigraphic — of or pertaining to serigraphy
- share price — cost of financial stocks
- sharpeville — a town in E South Africa: scene of riots in 1960 (when 69 demonstrators died), 1984, and 1985 (when 19 died)
- shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
- ship of war — warship.
- shrink wrap — transparent film for wrapping food
- shrink-wrap — to wrap and seal (a book, a food product, etc.) in a flexible film of plastic that, when exposed to a heating process, shrinks to the contour of the merchandise.
- sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
- sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
- spanish fir — a species of fir native to S Spain and N Morocco, Abies pinsapo
- speakership — a person who speaks.
- sphaeridium — a round body found on sea urchins
- sphragistic — of or relating to seals or signet rings.
- 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.
- spirography — the study of breathing using a spirograph
- split hairs — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
- stasimorphy — structural modification by arrested development
- stewardship — the position and duties of a steward, a person who acts as the surrogate of another or others, especially by managing property, financial affairs, an estate, etc.
- straight up — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- straight-up — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- strap hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
- strap-hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
- sympathizer — a person who sympathizes.
- symposiarch — the president, director, or master of a symposium.
- teachership — a person who teaches or instructs, especially as a profession; instructor.
- tertianship — (in the Jesuit order) a period of strict discipline before the taking of final vows, beginning one or two years after ordination.
- third space — the coffee shop considered as an alternative to a bar or restaurant as a place to socialize outside the home
- torsiograph — a graph indicating vibrating movements