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11-letter words containing t, e, r, h

  • pastry chef — cook who specializes in patisserie
  • pathbreaker — a person who blazes a trail or path; pathfinder.
  • pct theorem — the proposition that all the laws of physics are unchanged by the combined operations of charge conjugation (C), space inversion (P), and time reversal (T).
  • pea-shooter — a tube through which dried peas, beans, or small pellets are blown, used as a toy.
  • pear thrips — a minute, slender-bodied insect, Taeniothrips inconsequens, that eats the blossoms of flowering plants and is a common pest of pear, maple, almond, apple, and other trees in the eastern U.S.
  • pelotherapy — the application of mud to the body for therapeutic purposes
  • pentahedron — a solid figure having five faces.
  • pentahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) pentahydroxy.
  • penthemimer — a unit in poetry consisting of two and a half metrical feet
  • perchlorate — a salt or ester of perchloric acid, as potassium perchlorate, KClO 4 .
  • perihepatic — surrounding the liver; located around the liver
  • peristalith — a group of stones encircling a mound, dolmen, or the like.
  • perithecial — of, pertaining to, or having a perithecium
  • perithecium — the fruiting body of ascomycetous fungi, typically a minute, more or less completely closed, globose or flask-shaped body enclosing the asci.
  • perithelium — the connective tissue surrounding certain small vessels, as capillaries.
  • persichetti — Vincent, 1915–87, U.S. composer.
  • persulphate — a sulphuric acid salt of a base peroxide
  • perth amboy — a seaport in E New Jersey.
  • petrarchism — the poetic style introduced by Petrarch and characteristic of his work, marked by complex grammatical structure, elaborate conceits, and conventionalized diction.
  • petrarchist — a person who imitates the literary style employed by Petrarch, especially the poets of the English Renaissance who employed the Petrarchan sonnet style.
  • petroglyphy — the skill or procedure of making rock carvings
  • petrography — the branch of petrology dealing with the description and classification of rocks, especially by microscopic examination.
  • phalanstery — the buildings occupied by a phalanx. the community itself.
  • phentermine — a white, crystalline powder, phenyl-tertiary-butylamine hydrochloride, soluble in water and alcohol, that stimulates the central nervous system and elevates the systolic blood pressure: used chiefly in the treatment of obesity.
  • phosphorate — Also, phosphorize. Chemistry. to combine or impregnate with phosphorus.
  • phosphorite — a sedimentary rock sufficiently rich in phosphate minerals to be used as a source of phosphorus for fertilizers.
  • photocopier — any electrically operated machine using a photographic method, as the electrostatic process, for making instant copies of written, drawn, or printed material.
  • photometric — the measurement of the intensity of light or of relative illuminating power.
  • photoperiod — the interval in a 24-hour period during which a plant or animal is exposed to light.
  • photoreduce — to undergo or to cause to undergo photoreduction
  • photoresist — Electronics. a photosensitive liquid polymer, used in photolithography to produce integrated circuits.
  • photosensor — a photocell used to detect light.
  • photosphere — a sphere of light or radiance.
  • phrenetical — of or relating to phrenitis
  • phylacteric — of or relating to phylacteries
  • physiolater — somebody who worships nature
  • physiometry — measurement of the physiological functions of the body.
  • phytochrome — a plant pigment that is associated with the absorption of light in the photoperiodic response and that may regulate various types of growth and development.
  • phytosterol — Biochemistry. any of various sterols obtained from plants.
  • picture hat — a woman's hat having a very broad, flexible brim, often decorated with feathers, flowers, or the like.
  • pin-feather — an undeveloped feather before the web portions have expanded.
  • pirate ship — vessel sailed by sea robbers
  • pitchometer — an instrument embodying a clinometer, for measuring the pitch of a ship's propeller
  • pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
  • plane chart — a chart used in plane sailing, in which the lines of latitude and longitude are straight and parallel
  • planthopper — any member of a large and varied group of homopterous insects that are related to the leafhoppers and the spittlebugs but rarely damage cultivated plants.
  • plateholder — a lightproof container for a photographic plate, loaded into the camera with the plate and having a slide that is removed before exposing.
  • platyrrhine — Anthropology. having a broad, flat-bridged nose.
  • porkpie hat — a hat with a round flat crown and a brim that can be turned up or down
  • port neches — a town in SE Texas.
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