11-letter words containing s, h, r, a
- prickly ash — Also called Northern prickly ash, toothache tree. a citrus shrub or small tree, Zanthoxylum americanum, having aromatic leaves and usually prickly branches.
- primateship — primacy (def 2).
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prophylaxis — Medicine/Medical. the preventing of disease. the prevention of a specific disease, as by studying the biological behavior, transmission, etc., of its causative agent and applying a series of measures against it.
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- prosobranch — a gastropod mollusc of the subclass Prosobranchia, which includes conches, limpets, abalones, and numerous aquatic and terrestrial snails
- psaligraphy — the art of cutting out silhouettes
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- psychiatric — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
- psychograph — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
- purchasable — capable of being bought.
- push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- quail-brush — a salt-tolerant, silvery gray shrub, Atriplex lentiformis breweri, of the amaranth family, native to southern California.
- quitchgrass — Elymus repens.
- rabbitbrush — any of several composite shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus, of the western U.S. and Mexico, having whitish, hairy branches and yellow flowers.
- radio shack — a room or structure, as on a ship, for housing radio equipment.
- radnorshire — a historic county in Powys, in E Wales.
- rain shadow — a region in the lee of mountains that receives less rainfall than the region windward of the mountains.
- rain shower — a brief rainfall, usually of variable intensity.
- rajya sabha — the upper house of parliament in India.
- ramakrishna — Sri [sree,, shree] /sri,, ʃri/ (Show IPA), 1836–86, Hindu religious reformer and mystic.
- ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude
- ramos-horta — José, born 1949, East Timorese resistance leader, political activist (1975–99) during Indonesian occupation, and foreign minister from independence in 2000 to 2006; president since 2007: Nobel prize 1996.
- ranch house — the house of the owner of a ranch, usually of one story and with a low-pitched roof.
- rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
- rapid chess — a game of chess played within a fixed amount of time, usually 30 minutes per player for all moves.
- rathskeller — (in Germany) the cellar of a town hall, often used as a beer hall or restaurant.
- rattle-bush — blue false indigo.
- ravishingly — extremely beautiful or attractive; enchanting; entrancing.
- razor shell — any of various sand-burrowing bivalve molluscs of the genera Ensis and Solen, which have a long tubular shell
- razor-sharp — blade, etc.: dangerously sharp
- re-emphasis — special stress laid upon, or importance attached to, anything: The president's statement gave emphasis to the budgetary crisis.
- reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
- reemphasize — to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
- reestablish — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
- repair shop — garage, body shop: for vehicles
- repurchaser — to buy again; regain by purchase.
- researchers — diligent and systematic inquiry or investigation into a subject in order to discover or revise facts, theories, applications, etc.: recent research in medicine.
- researchful — (of a book, academic paper etc) full of research, containing or built upon a great deal of research
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
- rhabdovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, including the rabies virus.
- rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
- rhapsodical — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
- rhea silvia — a vestal virgin who became the mother, by Mars, of Romulus and Remus.
- rhesus baby — a baby suffering from haemolytic disease at birth as its red blood cells (which are Rh positive) have been attacked in the womb by antibodies from its Rh negative mother
- rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
- rhizanthous — bearing flowers directly from the root.
- rhizomatous — a rootlike subterranean stem, commonly horizontal in position, that usually produces roots below and sends up shoots progressively from the upper surface.