11-letter words containing r, e, a, h, o
- plateholder — a lightproof container for a photographic plate, loaded into the camera with the plate and having a slide that is removed before exposing.
- 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
- porkpie hat — a hat with a round flat crown and a brim that can be turned up or down
- postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- pouched rat — pocket gopher.
- 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.
- praetorship — the office of a praetor.
- 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.
- preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
- procephalic — of or relating to the head.
- prophetical — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- 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
- 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.
- pythagorean — of or relating to Pythagoras, to his school, or to his doctrines.
- rabbit hole — opening of a rabbit's burrow
- radiothermy — therapy that utilizes the heat from a shortwave radio apparatus or diathermy machine.
- radnorshire — a historic county in Powys, in E Wales.
- rain shower — a brief rainfall, usually of variable intensity.
- ranch house — the house of the owner of a ranch, usually of one story and with a low-pitched roof.
- razor shell — any of various sand-burrowing bivalve molluscs of the genera Ensis and Solen, which have a long tubular shell
- readthrough — reading (def 1).
- reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
- reauthorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- rehydration — to restore moisture or fluid to (something dehydrated).
- remand home — a detention home for juvenile offenders aged 8–16 years.
- renographic — of or pertaining to renography, using or produced by a renogram
- repair shop — garage, body shop: for vehicles
- reproachful — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- reprography — the reproduction and duplication of documents, written materials, drawings, designs, etc., by any process making use of light rays or photographic means, including offset printing, microfilming, photography, office duplicating, and the like.
- 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
- rhabdocoele — any member of the turbellarian flatworm order Neorhabdocoela, comprising both freshwater and marine species, having a simple saclike digestive system.
- rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
- rhetorician — an expert in the art of rhetoric.
- rhinorrhoea — an excessive discharge of mucus from the nose.
- rhododaphne — a shrub with narrow, poisonous evergreen leaves and attractive pink flowers, also known as oleander or rosebay
- rhône-alpes — a region of E France: mainly mountainous, rising to the edge of the Massif Central in the west and the French Alps in the east; drained by the Rivers Rhône, Saône, and Isère
- rhyme royal — a form of verse introduced into English by Chaucer, consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter in which there are three rhymes, the first line rhyming with the third, the second with the fourth and fifth, and the sixth with the seventh.
- richard hoe — Richard, 1812–86, U.S. inventor and manufacturer of printing-press equipment.
- richard roe — a fictitious name used in legal proceedings for a male party whose true name is not known, used especially as the second such name when two male persons are involved whose real names have not been ascertained.
- road hockey — an imitation of the game of ice hockey played typically by children without ice skates on a public road.
- roh tae woo — born 1932, president of South Korea 1988–93.