11-letter words containing s, p, h, r, a
- 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.
- 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.
- rapid chess — a game of chess played within a fixed amount of time, usually 30 minutes per player for all moves.
- 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.
- 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
- rhapsodical — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
- rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
- 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
- russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
- sand hopper — beach flea.
- sap orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
- saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- sarcophagal — related to or depicted on sarcophagi
- sarcophagus — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
- scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- scholarship — learning; knowledge acquired by study; the academic attainments of a scholar.
- schwarzkopf — Elisabeth, 1915–2006, German soprano, born in Poland.
- scratch pad — a pad of paper used for jotting down ideas, informal notes, preliminary writing, etc.
- 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.
- shadowgraph — a picture produced by throwing a shadow, as of the hands, on a lighted screen, wall, or the like.
- shag carpet — shag pile carpet
- shakespeare — William ("the Bard"; "the Bard of Avon") 1564–1616, English poet and dramatist.