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.