11-letter words containing p, r, e, h
- phytosterol — Biochemistry. any of various sterols obtained from plants.
- picture hat — a woman's hat having a very broad, flexible brim, often decorated with feathers, flowers, or the like.
- pigeonholer — someone who likes to pigeonhole people or things
- pill pusher — a medical doctor, especially one who too readily prescribes medication.
- pill-pusher — a medical doctor, especially one who too readily prescribes medication.
- pin-feather — an undeveloped feather before the web portions have expanded.
- pipe wrench — a tool having two toothed jaws, one fixed and the other free to grip pipes and other tubular objects when the tool is turned in one direction only.
- pirate ship — vessel sailed by sea robbers
- pitchometer — an instrument embodying a clinometer, for measuring the pitch of a ship's propeller
- pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
- placeholder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
- plane chart — a chart used in plane sailing, in which the lines of latitude and longitude are straight and parallel
- plane crash — an accident in which an aircraft hits land or water and is damaged or destroyed
- planisphere — a map of half or more of the celestial sphere with a device for indicating the part of a given location visible at a given time.
- plank-sheer — a plank or timber covering the upper ends of the frames of a wooden vessel
- planthopper — any member of a large and varied group of homopterous insects that are related to the leafhoppers and the spittlebugs but rarely damage cultivated plants.
- plateholder — a lightproof container for a photographic plate, loaded into the camera with the plate and having a slide that is removed before exposing.
- platyrrhine — Anthropology. having a broad, flat-bridged nose.
- pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
- pleomorphic — of, relating to, or characterized by pleomorphism; polymorphous.
- plerophoria — full conviction
- ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
- pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
- pole hammer — a shafted weapon having a spiked hammer head.
- polygrapher — a person who employs a code cipher
- pondicherry — a union territory of India, on the Coromandel Coast: formerly the chief settlement of French India; territory includes Mahé (on the Malabar Coast), Karikal, and Yanaon. 181 sq. mi. (469 sq. km).
- porkchopper — a labor official put on the union payroll as a reward for past loyalty or services.
- porkpie hat — a hat with a round flat crown and a brim that can be turned up or down
- port neches — a town in SE Texas.
- porterhouse — Also called porterhouse steak. a choice cut of beef from between the prime ribs and the sirloin.
- porto velho — a state in W Brazil. 93,815 sq. mi. (242,980 sq. km). Capital: Pôrto Velho.
- post-holder — a person who has a particular job or position
- postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- pouched rat — pocket gopher.
- powder horn — a powder flask made from the horn of a cow or ox.
- power ahead — If an economy or company powers ahead, it becomes stronger and more successful.
- power chain — an endless chain for transmitting motion and power between sprockets on shafts with parallel axes.
- power lunch — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- praetorship — the office of a praetor.
- pre-ethical — not governed by ethics, or not having an ethical or moral aspect
- pre-hearing — the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived.
- 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.
- pre-homeric — of, relating to, or suggestive of Homer or his poetry.
- pre-spanish — of or relating to Spain, its people, or their language.
- preachiness — the quality of being preachy; a preachy style, esp a tedious one
- preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
- preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
- predispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- preemphasis — a process of increasing the amplitude of certain frequencies relative to others in a signal in order to help them override noise, complemented by deemphasis before final reproduction of the signal being received.
- prefectship — the position of, or period served as, a prefect