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

  • 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
  • supercharge — to charge with an abundant or excessive amount, as of energy, emotion, or tension.
  • superharden — harden (def 6).
  • 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.
  • symposiarch — the president, director, or master of a symposium.
  • tachygraphy — shorthand, especially the ancient Greek and Roman handwriting used for rapid stenography and writing.
  • tamper with — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
  • teachership — a person who teaches or instructs, especially as a profession; instructor.
  • telegraphed — an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place, especially by means of an electric device consisting essentially of a sending instrument and a distant receiving instrument connected by a conducting wire or other communications channel.
  • telegraphic — of or relating to the telegraph.
  • teletherapy — treatment in which the source of therapy is some distance from the body, as certain radiation therapies.
  • tenorrhaphy — suture of a tendon.
  • tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
  • tertianship — (in the Jesuit order) a period of strict discipline before the taking of final vows, beginning one or two years after ordination.
  • thaumatrope — a card with different pictures on opposite sides, as a horse on one side and a rider on the other, which appear as if combined when the card is twirled rapidly, thus illustrating the persistence of visual impressions.
  • the permian — the Permian period or rock system
  • the proteas — the national cricket team of South Africa
  • the rapture — in some Christian theologies, the bodily ascent into heaven just before Armageddon of those who are saved (see save1 (sense 8)
  • the vapours — a depressed mental condition believed originally to be the result of vaporous exhalations from the stomach
  • the-prairie — a historical novel (1827) by James Fenimore Cooper.
  • therapeutic — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
  • thermograph — a thermometer that records the temperatures it measures.
  • thermopylae — a pass in E Greece, between the cliffs of Mt. Oeta and the Gulf of Lamia: Persian defeat of the Spartans 480 b.c.
  • third party — any party to an incident, case, quarrel, etc., who is incidentally involved.
  • third space — the coffee shop considered as an alternative to a bar or restaurant as a place to socialize outside the home
  • thorn apple — any poisonous plant belonging to the genus Datura, of the nightshade family, the species of which bear capsules covered with prickly spines, especially the jimson weed, D. stramonium.
  • thread rope — cordage 1/2 inch (1.3 cm) or less in thickness.
  • 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°.
  • thunderclap — a crash of thunder.
  • thunderpeal — a crash of thunder; thunderclap.
  • tomographic — relating to tomography
  • topographer — a specialist in topography.
  • topographic — the detailed mapping or charting of the features of a relatively small area, district, or locality.
  • torsiograph — a graph indicating vibrating movements
  • touch paper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
  • traineeship — the state or position of being a trainee.
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