11-letter words containing t, e, r, h
- porterhouse — Also called porterhouse steak. a choice cut of beef from between the prime ribs and the sirloin.
- porto velho — a state in W Brazil. 93,815 sq. mi. (242,980 sq. km). Capital: Pôrto Velho.
- post-holder — a person who has a particular job or position
- postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- pouched rat — pocket gopher.
- praetorship — the office of a praetor.
- pre-ethical — not governed by ethics, or not having an ethical or moral aspect
- predispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- prefectship — the position of, or period served as, a prefect
- prehistoric — of or relating to the time or a period prior to recorded history: The dinosaur is a prehistoric beast.
- prelateship — the rank of a prelate
- preterhuman — beyond what is human: preterhuman experience.
- pretty much — mostly
- 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).
- privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
- prize fight — A prize fight is a boxing match where the boxers are paid to fight, especially one that is not official.
- prizeworthy — deserving or qualified for a prize: a prizeworthy performance.
- prochlorite — a dark green member of the chlorite group, usually foliated.
- prohibitive — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- proof sheet — a printer's proof.
- prophethood — a person who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration.
- prophetical — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- propter hoc — because of this.
- 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.
- protophloem — the part of the primary phloem that develops first, consisting of narrow, thin-walled cells.
- psychometer — a device for measuring mental or psychological activity
- psychometry — Psychology. psychometrics.
- pulchritude — physical beauty; comeliness.
- pull hitter — a batter who tends to hit the ball to the same side of the field as that on which he or she stands at home plate.
- purehearted — (of a person) without malice, treachery, or evil intent; honest; sincere; guileless.
- purpleheart — the hard, purplish wood of any of several South American trees belonging to the genus Peltogyne, of the legume family, used for making furniture.
- pyrotechnic — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- pythagorean — of or relating to Pythagoras, to his school, or to his doctrines.
- quoteworthy — quotable.
- rabbit hole — opening of a rabbit's burrow
- radiothermy — therapy that utilizes the heat from a shortwave radio apparatus or diathermy machine.
- range light — one of a pattern of navigation lights, usually fixed ashore, used by vessels for manoeuvring in narrow channels at night
- rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
- rat-catcher — a person, animal, or thing that catches and exterminates rats, especially a person whose business it is to rid a property of rats.
- rather than — in preference to
- rathskeller — (in Germany) the cellar of a town hall, often used as a beer hall or restaurant.
- rattle-bush — blue false indigo.
- re-enthrone — to enthrone (a king, queen, etc) again
- re-entrench — to place in a position of strength; establish firmly or solidly: safely entrenched behind undeniable facts.
- readthrough — reading (def 1).
- reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
- reauthorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- rechartered — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.