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

  • psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
  • psychograph — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
  • ptochocracy — government by the poor
  • pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
  • purchasable — capable of being bought.
  • purehearted — (of a person) without malice, treachery, or evil intent; honest; sincere; guileless.
  • purpleheart — the hard, purplish wood of any of several South American trees belonging to the genus Peltogyne, of the legume family, used for making furniture.
  • push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
  • pyelography — the science or technique of making photographs of the kidneys, renal pelves, and ureters by means of x-rays, after the injection of an opaque solution or of a radiopaque dye.
  • pyrrhuloxia — a cardinallike grosbeak, Cardinalis (Pyrrhuloxia) sinuatus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a bill superficially resembling that of a parrot.
  • pythagorean — of or relating to Pythagoras, to his school, or to his doctrines.
  • quadraphony — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
  • radiography — the production of radiographs.
  • radiophonic — a radiotelephone.
  • ralph izard — Ralph, 1742–1804, U.S. diplomat and politician.
  • ralph nader — Ralph, born 1934, U.S. lawyer, author, political reformer, and consumer advocate.
  • rapid chess — a game of chess played within a fixed amount of time, usually 30 minutes per player for all moves.
  • razor-sharp — blade, etc.: dangerously sharp
  • 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.
  • renographic — of or pertaining to renography, using or produced by a renogram
  • repair shop — garage, body shop: for vehicles
  • reproachful — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • reprography — the reproduction and duplication of documents, written materials, drawings, designs, etc., by any process making use of light rays or photographic means, including offset printing, microfilming, photography, office duplicating, and the like.
  • repurchaser — to buy again; regain by purchase.
  • retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
  • retinopathy — any diseased condition of the retina, especially one that is noninflammatory.
  • retrophilia — a strong liking for things from the past
  • rhapsodical — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
  • rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
  • rhododaphne — a shrub with narrow, poisonous evergreen leaves and attractive pink flowers, also known as oleander or rosebay
  • rhône-alpes — a region of E France: mainly mountainous, rising to the edge of the Massif Central in the west and the French Alps in the east; drained by the Rivers Rhône, Saône, and Isère
  • rockhampton — a city in E Queensland, in E Australia.
  • roman punch — a lemon-water ice flavored with rum or other alcoholic beverage.
  • rough paper — paper that is used for writing a rough copy
  • russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
  • sand hopper — beach flea.
  • sap orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
  • saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
  • sarcophagal — related to or depicted on sarcophagi
  • sarcophagus — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
  • scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
  • scholarship — learning; knowledge acquired by study; the academic attainments of a scholar.
  • schwarzkopf — Elisabeth, 1915–2006, German soprano, born in Poland.
  • scratch pad — a pad of paper used for jotting down ideas, informal notes, preliminary writing, etc.
  • sea-poacher — poacher1 (def 2).
  • 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
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