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11-letter words containing s, e, t, h, i

  • pathologies — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
  • pear thrips — a minute, slender-bodied insect, Taeniothrips inconsequens, that eats the blossoms of flowering plants and is a common pest of pear, maple, almond, apple, and other trees in the eastern U.S.
  • peristalith — a group of stones encircling a mound, dolmen, or the like.
  • persichetti — Vincent, 1915–87, U.S. composer.
  • petrarchism — the poetic style introduced by Petrarch and characteristic of his work, marked by complex grammatical structure, elaborate conceits, and conventionalized diction.
  • petrarchist — a person who imitates the literary style employed by Petrarch, especially the poets of the English Renaissance who employed the Petrarchan sonnet style.
  • pheneticist — a person who makes classifications in the field of biology according to phenetic criteria
  • philatelist — the collecting of stamps and other postal matter as a hobby or an investment.
  • philistines — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.
  • phillipsite — a zeolite mineral, similar to stilbite but with potassium replacing some of the calcium.
  • philoctetes — Classical Mythology. a noted archer and squire of Hercules. Bitten by a snake and abandoned on an island because of his festering wound, he was at length brought by the Greeks to Troy, where he recovered and later killed Paris.
  • phonematics — phonemics.
  • phonetastic — (communications)   A CTI product from Callware. Phonetastic employs if-then rules and customer records to tell those receiving calls who is calling (based on ANI and DNIS) and to determine how the call should be routed, e.g. to a certain sales representative or to the general sales department; receive high-priority treatment; receive a fax-back, etc.
  • phoneticism — a phonetic scheme of writing
  • phosphatide — phospholipid.
  • phosphatize — to treat with phosphates.
  • phosphorite — a sedimentary rock sufficiently rich in phosphate minerals to be used as a source of phosphorus for fertilizers.
  • photoresist — Electronics. a photosensitive liquid polymer, used in photolithography to produce integrated circuits.
  • physiolater — somebody who worships nature
  • physiometry — measurement of the physiological functions of the body.
  • physitheism — the attribution of physical form to gods and religious beings
  • pilot house — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
  • pirate ship — vessel sailed by sea robbers
  • pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
  • post chaise — a four-wheeled coach for rapid transportation of passengers and mail, used in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • praetorship — the office of a praetor.
  • predispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
  • prefectship — the position of, or period served as, a prefect
  • 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
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • publishment — publication.
  • rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
  • reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
  • redshirting — a high-school or college athlete kept out of varsity competition for one year to develop skills and extend eligibility. a child held back from starting kindergarten for one year, the practice of which is believed by some parents to give the child academic, athletic, and social advantages.
  • reestablish — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
  • resynthesis — the combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity (opposed to analysis, ) the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements.
  • retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
  • 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.
  • rhinestoned — adorned with rhinestones
  • riefenstahl — Leni [ley-nee] /ˈleɪ ni/ (Show IPA), 1902–2003, German film director.
  • right stage — the part of the stage that is right of center as one faces the audience.
  • righteously — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
  • riot shield — Riot shields are pieces of equipment made of transparent plastic which are used by the police to protect themselves against angry crowds.
  • rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
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