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

  • snapshooter — an amateur photographer, especially one who takes snapshots with a simple camera.
  • spatterdash — a long gaiter to protect the trousers or stockings, as from mud while riding.
  • speechcraft — the art of rhetoric
  • spermaphyte — the placenta of a plant
  • spermatheca — a small sac or cavity in female or hermaphroditic invertebrates used to store sperm for fertilizing eggs, as in the queen bee.
  • spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
  • 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.
  • split hairs — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
  • sports hall — venue for physical activities
  • spreadsheet — Accounting. a worksheet that is arranged in the manner of a mathematical matrix and contains a multicolumn analysis of related entries for easy reference on a single sheet.
  • star-shaped — of the shape of or like a star.
  • stasimorphy — structural modification by arrested development
  • stench trap — a trap in a sewer that by means of a water seal prevents the upward passage of foul-smelling gases
  • stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stereograph — a single or double picture for a stereoscope.
  • stevengraph — a small picture woven in colored silk thread: introduced in 1879 and mass-produced on a Jacquard-type loom.
  • 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.
  • straphanger — a passenger who stands in a crowded bus or subway train and holds onto a strap or other support suspended from above.
  • stump ranch — (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees
  • 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
  • super-earth — a hypothetical planet larger than the earth but smaller than the four gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus, thought to be orbiting the sun beyond the Kuiper belt but nearer than the Oort cloud: its existence is suggested by two known dwarf planets in a similar orbit
  • superheated — If a liquid is superheated, it has been heated to a temperature that is higher than its boiling point without being allowed to boil.
  • sympathizer — a person who sympathizes.
  • 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.
  • the proteas — the national cricket team of South Africa
  • the vapours — a depressed mental condition believed originally to be the result of vaporous exhalations from the stomach
  • third space — the coffee shop considered as an alternative to a bar or restaurant as a place to socialize outside the home
  • three-phase — of or relating to a circuit, system, or device that is energized by three electromotive forces that differ in phase by one third of a cycle or 120°.
  • torsiograph — a graph indicating vibrating movements
  • traineeship — the state or position of being a trainee.
  • traitorship — a person who betrays another, a cause, or any trust.
  • transhipper — a person who tranships
  • transphobia — unreasoning hostility, aversion, etc., toward transgender people.
  • trophoblast — the layer of extraembryonic ectoderm that chiefly nourishes the embryo or develops into fetal membranes with nutritive functions.
  • trophoplasm — the cytoplasm that is involved in the nutritive processes of a cell
  • watchspring — the main spring inside a watch
  • watchstraps — Plural form of watchstrap.
  • xiphisterna — Plural form of xiphisternum.
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