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11-letter words containing p, h, i

  • pulchritude — physical beauty; comeliness.
  • pull hitter — a batter who tends to hit the ball to the same side of the field as that on which he or she stands at home plate.
  • pumpkinhead — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
  • punchinello — a grotesque or absurd chief character in a puppet show of Italian origin: the prototype of Punch.
  • put up with — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
  • pyrotechnic — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
  • pyrrhuloxia — a cardinallike grosbeak, Cardinalis (Pyrrhuloxia) sinuatus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a bill superficially resembling that of a parrot.
  • quasi-happy — delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing: to be happy to see a person.
  • radiography — the production of radiographs.
  • radiophonic — a radiotelephone.
  • ralph izardRalph, 1742–1804, U.S. diplomat and politician.
  • 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.
  • re-shipping — to ship again.
  • reemphasize — to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
  • rehypnotize — to hypnotize again
  • renographic — of or pertaining to renography, using or produced by a renogram
  • repair shop — garage, body shop: for vehicles
  • replenished — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
  • replenisher — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
  • republisher — a person who republishes
  • 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
  • rh positive — See under Rh factor.
  • rh-positive — See under Rh factor.
  • rhapsodical — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
  • rheotropism — the effect of a current of water upon the direction of plant growth.
  • rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
  • rhizosphere — the area of soil that surrounds the roots of a plant and is altered by the plant's root growth, nutrients, respiration, etc.
  • rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
  • rompishness — the state or condition of being rompish
  • rope stitch — (in embroidery) a stitch formed from the entwining of stitches.
  • rubbish tip — dump for refuse
  • russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
  • sales pitch — promotional talk
  • sapphic ode — Horatian ode.
  • saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
  • saxophonist — musician who plays saxophone
  • schizophyte — any of the Schizophyta, a group of organisms comprising the schizomycetes and the schizophyceous algae, characterized by a simple structure and reproduction by simple fission or spores.
  • schizopodal — pertaining to a split-foot or appendage
  • scholarship — learning; knowledge acquired by study; the academic attainments of a scholar.
  • school ship — a vessel used in training students for nautical careers.
  • school trip — educational outing
  • schoonschip — (mathematics, tool)   (From the Dutch for "beautiful ship" or "clean ship") A program for symbolic mathematics, especially High Energy Physics, written by M. Veltman of CERN in 1964. Schoonschip only does algebra, no derivatives. It was implemented originally in CDC 6600 and CDC 7600 assembly language and currently in 680x0 assembly language. Runs on Amiga, Atari ST, Sun-3 and NeXT. It was once maintained by David Williams at the University of Michigan Physics Department.
  • scopophilia — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
  • scopophilic — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
  • scopophobia — the fear of being observed
  • scotch pine — a pine, Pinus sylvestris, of Eurasia, having a reddish trunk and twisted, bluish-green needles.
  • scotophilic — living and flourishing in darkness.
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