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11-letter words containing p, h, i, l, o, r

  • plerophoria — full conviction
  • polychroism — the ability of a crystal to absorb different wavelengths of light and thus to display multiple colours
  • polychromic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
  • polygraphic — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
  • polyhistory — the quality of a polyhistor
  • polymorphic — polymorphism
  • polytrophic — (of certain bacteria) deriving nourishment from many organic substances.
  • pre-holiday — a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
  • priest-hole — a secret chamber in certain houses in England, built as a hiding place for Roman Catholic priests when they were proscribed in the 16th and 17th centuries
  • procephalic — of or relating to the head.
  • prochlorite — a dark green member of the chlorite group, usually foliated.
  • prophetical — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
  • 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.
  • prothalamia — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
  • prothallium — Botany. the gametophyte of ferns and related plants.
  • prothalloid — resembling a prothallus
  • protolithic — noting or pertaining to stone implements selected according to suitability of the form to a particular purpose without definite shaping on the part of the user.
  • protophilic — having or involving an affinity for hydrogen ions (protons)
  • pyrrhuloxia — a cardinallike grosbeak, Cardinalis (Pyrrhuloxia) sinuatus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a bill superficially resembling that of a parrot.
  • retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
  • retrophilia — a strong liking for things from the past
  • rhapsodical — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
  • rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
  • scholarship — learning; knowledge acquired by study; the academic attainments of a scholar.
  • school trip — educational outing
  • scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
  • scripophile — a person who practices scripophily.
  • scripophily — the collecting by hobbyists of old stock certificates and bonds that have no intrinsic value other than their aesthetic appeal or relative rarity.
  • sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
  • siderophile — (of a cell or tissue) having an affinity for iron.
  • soldiership — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
  • spermophile — any of various burrowing rodents of the squirrel family, especially of the genus Spermophilus (or Citellus), sometimes sufficiently numerous to do much damage to crops, as the ground squirrels and susliks.
  • spider hole — a foxhole with a camouflaged lid or cover in which a sniper hides
  • thermophile — a thermophilic organism.
  • timbrophily — the love of stamps; stamp collecting
  • triphyllous — having three leaves.
  • trophically — of or relating to nutrition; concerned in nutritive processes.
  • trothplight — engagement to be married; betrothal.
  • tyroglyphid — a tick or mite of the family Tyroglyphidae
  • worshipable — Capable of being worshiped; worthy of veneration.
  • worshipless — lacking worship, not worshipped
  • xerophilous — Botany. growing in or adapted to dry, especially dry and hot, regions.
  • xylographic — Of or pertaining to xylographs.
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