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11-letter words containing s, p, h, r

  • preschedule — taking place ahead of schedule
  • preschooler — a child below the official school starting age, usually a child up to age five.
  • prickly ash — Also called Northern prickly ash, toothache tree. a citrus shrub or small tree, Zanthoxylum americanum, having aromatic leaves and usually prickly branches.
  • 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).
  • pro-british — of or relating to Great Britain or its inhabitants.
  • pro-chinese — the standard language of China, based on the speech of Beijing; Mandarin.
  • prochronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date earlier than the actual one; prolepsis.
  • proctorship — a person appointed to keep watch over students at examinations.
  • prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • proof sheet — a printer's proof.
  • prophesying — to foretell or predict.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • proud flesh — granulation tissue.
  • provostship — the office of a provost
  • psaligraphy — the art of cutting out silhouettes
  • pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
  • pseudomorph — an irregular or unclassifiable form.
  • 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.
  • psychometer — a device for measuring mental or psychological activity
  • psychometry — Psychology. psychometrics.
  • psychomotor — of or relating to a response involving both motor and psychological components.
  • punch press — a power-driven machine used to cut, draw, or otherwise shape material, especially metal sheets, with dies, under pressure or by heavy blows.
  • 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.
  • re-shipping — to ship again.
  • record shop — store selling recorded music
  • reemphasize — to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
  • reject shop — a shop that sells damaged or imperfect products that cannot be sold at the full price
  • repair shop — garage, body shop: for vehicles
  • replenished — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
  • replenisher — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
  • republisher — a person who republishes
  • repurchaser — to buy again; regain by purchase.
  • retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
  • reupholster — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
  • rh positive — See under Rh factor.
  • rh-positive — See under Rh factor.
  • rhapsodical — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
  • rheotropism — the effect of a current of water upon the direction of plant growth.
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