11-letter words containing s, e, p, h, r
- preachiness — the quality of being preachy; a preachy style, esp a tedious one
- 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
- prefinished — coated or treated before use or sale: prefinished wood.
- prefreshman — before being a freshman
- 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
- 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.
- 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).
- pro-chinese — the standard language of China, based on the speech of Beijing; Mandarin.
- proof sheet — a printer's proof.
- prophesying — to foretell or predict.
- 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.
- proud flesh — granulation tissue.
- 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.
- 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.
- rapid chess — a game of chess played within a fixed amount of time, usually 30 minutes per player for all moves.
- re-emphasis — special stress laid upon, or importance attached to, anything: The president's statement gave emphasis to the budgetary crisis.
- re-shipping — to ship again.
- record shop — store selling recorded music
- reemphasize — to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
- reject shop — a shop that sells damaged or imperfect products that cannot be sold at the full price
- repair shop — garage, body shop: for vehicles
- replenished — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- replenisher — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- republisher — a person who republishes
- repurchaser — to buy again; regain by purchase.
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
- reupholster — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- 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.
- 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
- rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.