11-letter words containing p, r, e, h
- prefinished — coated or treated before use or sale: prefinished wood.
- prefreshman — before being a freshman
- preheadache — occurring before a headache
- prehensible — able to be seized or grasped.
- prehispanic — Spanish.
- prehistoric — of or relating to the time or a period prior to recorded history: The dinosaur is a prehistoric beast.
- prelateship — the rank of a prelate
- preluncheon — a light meal before lunch
- premiership — the head of the cabinet in France or Italy or certain other countries; first minister; prime minister.
- prep school — preparatory school.
- prepurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- preschedule — taking place ahead of schedule
- preschooler — a child below the official school starting age, usually a child up to age five.
- preterhuman — beyond what is human: preterhuman experience.
- pretty much — mostly
- price check — A price check is an investigation of the prices charged by different retailers for the same goods to find the best value.
- 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
- primateship — primacy (def 2).
- privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
- prize fight — A prize fight is a boxing match where the boxers are paid to fight, especially one that is not official.
- prizeworthy — deserving or qualified for a prize: a prizeworthy performance.
- pro-chinese — the standard language of China, based on the speech of Beijing; Mandarin.
- pro-choicer — a person who supports the right of a woman to have an abortion
- procephalic — of or relating to the head.
- prochlorite — a dark green member of the chlorite group, usually foliated.
- prohibitive — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- proof sheet — a printer's proof.
- prophesying — to foretell or predict.
- prophethood — a person who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration.
- prophetical — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- propter hoc — because of this.
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- prosthetics — an artificial body part; a prosthesis: Hundreds of amputees volunteered to test the new prosthetics.
- prosthetist — a person skilled in making or fitting prosthetic devices.
- protophloem — the part of the primary phloem that develops first, consisting of narrow, thin-walled cells.
- proud flesh — granulation tissue.
- prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- pseudomorph — an irregular or unclassifiable form.
- psychometer — a device for measuring mental or psychological activity
- psychometry — Psychology. psychometrics.
- 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.
- punch press — a power-driven machine used to cut, draw, or otherwise shape material, especially metal sheets, with dies, under pressure or by heavy blows.
- 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.
- 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.
- pyrotechnic — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- pythagorean — of or relating to Pythagoras, to his school, or to his doctrines.