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11-letter words containing r, h, e, o, p, i

  • plerophoria — full conviction
  • 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).
  • porkpie hat — a hat with a round flat crown and a brim that can be turned up or down
  • 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.
  • pre-homeric — of, relating to, or suggestive of Homer or his poetry.
  • preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
  • prehistoric — of or relating to the time or a period prior to recorded history: The dinosaur is a prehistoric beast.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • prophesying — to foretell or predict.
  • prophetical — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
  • 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.
  • pyrotechnic — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
  • rehypnotize — to hypnotize again
  • renographic — of or pertaining to renography, using or produced by a renogram
  • repair shop — garage, body shop: for vehicles
  • 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.
  • rheotropism — the effect of a current of water upon the direction of plant growth.
  • 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.
  • scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
  • scripophile — a person who practices scripophily.
  • seismograph — any of various instruments for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes.
  • senatorship — the office or position of a senator
  • ship-broker — a person who acts for a shipowner by getting cargo and passengers for his ships and also handling insurance and other matters
  • siderophile — (of a cell or tissue) having an affinity for iron.
  • soldiership — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
  • sophistries — Sophistries are clever arguments that sound convincing but are in fact false.
  • spermophile — any of various burrowing rodents of the squirrel family, especially of the genus Spermophilus (or Citellus), sometimes sufficiently numerous to do much damage to crops, as the ground squirrels and susliks.
  • spheroidize — to turn or be turned into spheroids
  • spider hole — a foxhole with a camouflaged lid or cover in which a sniper hides
  • spirochaete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
  • springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
  • superheroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
  • surgeonship — the position or responsibility of a surgeon
  • terpsichore — Classical Mythology. the Muse of dancing and choral song.
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