11-letter words containing s, y, r, p, h
- pastry chef — cook who specializes in patisserie
- perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
- phalanstery — the buildings occupied by a phalanx. the community itself.
- pharyngitis — inflammation of the mucous membrane of the pharynx; sore throat.
- photo story — photo essay.
- phraseology — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
- physiatrics — physical medicine.
- physiatrist — a physician specializing in physical medicine.
- physiolater — somebody who worships nature
- physiolatry — the worship of nature
- physiometry — measurement of the physiological functions of the body.
- phytosterol — Biochemistry. any of various sterols obtained from plants.
- polychroism — the ability of a crystal to absorb different wavelengths of light and thus to display multiple colours
- polyhistory — the quality of a polyhistor
- prickly ash — Also called Northern prickly ash, toothache tree. a citrus shrub or small tree, Zanthoxylum americanum, having aromatic leaves and usually prickly branches.
- 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.
- psaligraphy — the art of cutting out silhouettes
- 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.
- rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
- saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- sclerophyll — Also, sclerophyllous [skleer-uh-fil-uh s] /ˌsklɪər əˈfɪl əs/ (Show IPA). of, relating to, or exhibiting sclerophylly.
- scripophily — the collecting by hobbyists of old stock certificates and bonds that have no intrinsic value other than their aesthetic appeal or relative rarity.
- 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.
- sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
- snobography — an account or description of snobs
- sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
- spermaphyte — the placenta of a plant
- spermophyte — spermatophyte.
- sphygmogram — a tracing or diagram produced by a sphygmograph.
- spirography — the study of breathing using a spirograph
- stasimorphy — structural modification by arrested development
- stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stereophony — the state or condition of being stereophonic.
- stylography — the art of writing, tracing, drawing, etc., with a style.
- sulphhydryl — the univalent radical group -SH
- sundry shop — (in Malaysia) a shop, similar to a delicatessen, that sells predominantly Chinese foodstuffs
- superphylum — a category of related phyla within a kingdom.
- survey ship — a vessel designed to carry out research and surveying
- sympathizer — a person who sympathizes.
- symposiarch — the president, director, or master of a symposium.
- syrphid fly — any of numerous beelike or wasplike flies of the family Syrphidae that feed on the nectar and pollen of flowers and have larvae that feed on decaying vegetation or prey on aphids.