11-letter words containing s, p, e, a, r, h
- 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.
- prefreshman — before being a freshman
- prehispanic — Spanish.
- prelateship — the rank of a prelate
- prepurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- primateship — primacy (def 2).
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- 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.
- reemphasize — to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
- repair shop — garage, body shop: for vehicles
- repurchaser — to buy again; regain by purchase.
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
- 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
- sand hopper — beach flea.
- scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- sea-poacher — poacher1 (def 2).
- seismograph — any of various instruments for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes.
- senatorship — the office or position of a senator
- serigrapher — someone who engages in serigraphy
- serigraphic — of or pertaining to serigraphy
- serotherapy — therapy by means of injections of a serum obtained especially from an immune animal.
- sex therapy — treatment of sexual disorders that have psychological causes, employing psychiatric counseling, behavior modification, and education.
- shag carpet — shag pile carpet
- shakespeare — William ("the Bard"; "the Bard of Avon") 1564–1616, English poet and dramatist.
- share price — cost of financial stocks
- sharp-eared — having pointed ears.
- sharp-edged — having a fine edge or edges.
- sharp-nosed — having a thin, pointed nose.
- sharpbender — an organization that has been underperforming its competitors but suddenly becomes more successful, often as a result of new management or changes in its business strategy
- sharpeville — a town in E South Africa: scene of riots in 1960 (when 69 demonstrators died), 1984, and 1985 (when 19 died)
- sheep track — a pathway made by and used by sheep, often in rocky or mountainous terrain, and sometimes followed by hikers
- shelf paper — paper used for covering shelves, especially those of a cupboard or kitchen cabinet.
- shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
- shopbreaker — a robber who breaks into a shop
- smart phone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- snapshooter — an amateur photographer, especially one who takes snapshots with a simple camera.
- sonographer — a diagnostic technician who operates a sonograph
- spare wheel — A spare wheel is a wheel with a tyre on it that you keep in your car in case you get a flat tyre and need to replace one of your wheels.
- spatterdash — a long gaiter to protect the trousers or stockings, as from mud while riding.
- speakership — a person who speaks.
- spearheaded — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
- speechcraft — the art of rhetoric
- speechmaker — a person who delivers speeches.
- sperm whale — a large, square-snouted whale, Physeter catodon, valued for its oil and spermaceti: now reduced in number and rare in some areas.
- spermaphyte — the placenta of a plant
- spermatheca — a small sac or cavity in female or hermaphroditic invertebrates used to store sperm for fertilizing eggs, as in the queen bee.