11-letter words containing p, r, o, h
- british lop — a breed of large white pig with large drooping ears, originating from Wales, Cumberland, and Ulster
- brood patch — a highly vascular, featherless area developed on the abdomen of certain brooding birds that is in direct contact with eggs during incubation and provides additional warmth.
- brood pouch — a pouch or cavity in certain animals, such as frogs and fishes, in which their eggs develop and hatch
- brown patch — a fungus disease of turf grass that results in circular areas of brown, dead grass.
- brushpopper — a cowboy, especially one who works in the brush.
- bryophyllum — a genus of plants of the family Crassulaceae with the ability to produce plantlets on their leaves or floral stems
- bush parole — an escape from prison.
- butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
- cacographic — Displaying the properties of bad spelling or bad handwriting or both.
- caecotrophy — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and other lagomorphs, the consumption of food pellets which are naturally produced by means of digestion, retention in the caecum, and expulsion through the anus.
- cameraphone — a mobile phone incorporating a camera
- camphor ice — an ointment consisting of camphor, white wax, spermaceti, and castor oil, used to treat skin ailments, esp chapped skin
- camphor oil — a colorless liquid obtained from the wood of the camphor tree by distillation and separation from the solid camphor, used in varnish, soaps, and shoe polish, and in medicine chiefly as a rubefacient.
- camphorated — impregnated or combined with camphor
- camphorates — Plural form of camphorate.
- camphorweed — vinegarweed.
- camphorwood — The wood of Cinnamomum camphora, an evergreen tree whose leaves have a smell of camphor when crushed.
- card hopper — a device that allows cards of varying thicknesses to be fed individually through an outlet opening in a printer without adjustment
- cardiograph — an instrument for recording the mechanical force and form of heart movements
- cardiopathy — a heart disease or disorder
- cardophagus — a donkey
- carpet moth — any of several geometrid moths with black- (or brown-)and-white mottled wings
- carpophores — Plural form of carpophore.
- carpophorus — an epithet of both Demeter and her daughter, Persephone, meaning “fruit-bearer.”.
- cartography — Cartography is the art or activity of drawing maps and geographical charts.
- cartophilic — relating to cartophily
- catastrophe — A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage.
- catastrophy — Alternative form of catastrophe.
- cephalogram — An X-ray of the craniofacial area.
- chairpeople — a person who presides over a meeting, committee, board, etc.
- chairperson — The chairperson of a meeting, committee, or organization is the person in charge of it.
- chamber pop — pop music that incorporates orchestral arrangements
- chamber pot — A chamber pot is a round container shaped like a very large cup. Chamber pots used to be kept in bedrooms so that people could urinate in them instead of having to leave their room during the night.
- chamber-pot — a portable container, especially for urine, used in bedrooms.
- champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
- chao phraya — a river in N Thailand, rising in the N highlands and flowing south to the Gulf of Thailand. Length: (including the headstreams Nan and Ping) 1200 km (750 miles)
- chaperonage — The state of being a chaperon.
- chaperoning — a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
- chaperonins — Plural form of chaperonin.
- checkerspot — any of several butterflies of the genus Melitaea, having black wings with yellowish-brown, checkerlike markings.
- chemosphere — an atmospheric zone about 19 to 80 km (11.8 to 49.7 mi) above the earth's surface, in which photochemical reactions take place
- cherepovets — city in NE Russia, on the Rybinsk Reservoir: pop. 319,000
- child-proof — resistant to being opened, tampered with, or operated by a child: a childproof medicine bottle.
- chirography — handwriting; penmanship
- chiropodist — A chiropodist is a person whose job is to treat and care for people's feet.
- chiropteran — of, relating to, or belonging to the Chiroptera, an order of placental mammals comprising the bats
- chlorophyll — Chlorophyll is any, or all, of a group of green pigments that are found in plants and other organisms, which enables them to use the energy from sunlight.
- chlorophyte — A lower plant of the division Chlorophyta, which comprises the green algae.
- chloroplast — a plastid containing chlorophyll and other pigments, occurring in plants and algae that carry out photosynthesis
- chloroprene — a colourless liquid derivative of butadiene that is used in making neoprene rubbers; 2-chloro-1,2-butadiene. Formula: CH2:CHCCl:CH2