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11-letter words containing s, h, r

  • anglo-irish — the English language as spoken in Ireland
  • anglosphere — a group of English-speaking countries that share common roots in British culture and history, usually the UK, the US, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada
  • anorthosite — a coarse-grained plutonic igneous rock consisting almost entirely of plagioclase feldspar
  • answerphone — An answerphone is a device which you connect to your telephone and which records telephone calls while you are out.
  • anthesteria — one of the ancient Athenian festivals composing the Dionysia; a spring festival celebrating flowers and new wine.
  • anthracnose — any of several fungus diseases of plants and trees, such as vines and beans, characterized by oval dark depressed spots on the fruit and elsewhere
  • anthracosis — a lung disease due to inhalation of coal dust
  • anthropoids — Plural form of anthropoid.
  • antichrists — Plural form of antichrist.
  • antiheroism — (literature) The quality of being an antihero.
  • antiphrasis — the use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal one, esp for ironic effect
  • antistrophe — the second of two movements made by a chorus during the performance of a choral ode
  • antitarnish — resistant to or protecting against tarnishing
  • aphelandras — Plural form of aphelandra.
  • aphrodisiac — An aphrodisiac is a food, drink, or drug which is said to make people want to have sex.
  • apostrophes — Plural form of apostrophe.
  • apostrophic — a digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea, as “O Death, where is thy sting?”.
  • apostrophus — a symbol resembling a reversed letter C used in Roman numerals to denote large numbers
  • arachis oil — peanut oil.
  • archaeornis — an extinct primitive Jurassic bird, formerly placed in the genus Archaeornis but now thought to be a species of archaeopteryx
  • archaicisms — Plural form of archaicism.
  • archbishops — Plural form of archbishop.
  • archdeacons — Plural form of archdeacon.
  • archdiocese — An archdiocese is the area over which an archbishop has control.
  • archduchess — the wife or widow of an archduke
  • archduchies — Plural form of archduchy.
  • archenemies — Plural form of archenemy.
  • archilochus — 7th century bc, Greek poet of Paros, notable for using his own experience as subject matter
  • architraves — Plural form of architrave.
  • archnemesis — A chief nemesis.
  • archpriests — Plural form of archpriest.
  • argyllshire — (until 1975) a county of W Scotland, part of Strathclyde region (1975–96), now part of Argyll and Bute
  • aristarchus — a crater in the NE quadrant of the moon, having a diameter of about 37 kilometres, which is the brightest formation on the moon
  • arithmetics — Plural form of arithmetic.
  • arkhangelsk — seaport in NW Russia, at the mouth of the Northern Dvina River: pop. 407,000
  • armory show — an international art show held in a New York City armory in 1913: considered a landmark in the public and critical acceptance of modern art.
  • arms-length — not closely or intimately connected or associated; distant; remote: an arm's-length relationship.
  • aron kodesh — Holy Ark.
  • arrhythmias — Plural form of arrhythmia.
  • arsonphobia — Pyrophobia.
  • art history — study of art through the ages
  • arthralgias — Plural form of arthralgia.
  • arthritides — (medicine) Plural form of arthritis.
  • arthrodesis — the fusion of bones in a joint through surgery which causes immobility of the joint
  • arthrograms — Plural form of arthrogram.
  • arthroscope — a tubular instrument that is inserted into the capsule of a joint to examine the joint, extract tissue, etc
  • arthroscopy — the use of an arthroscope to diagnose an injury to or disease of a joint or to perform minor surgery on a joint.
  • arthrospore — a sporelike cell of ascomycetous fungi and some algae produced by a breaking of the hyphae
  • artisanship — the occupation or product of a craftsperson or artisan
  • artsybashev — Mikhail [Russian myi-khuh-yeel] /Russian myɪ xʌˈyil/ (Show IPA), Artzybashev, Mikhail.
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