11-letter words containing t, h, a, g
- pintsch gas — gas with high illuminating power made from shale oil or petroleum, used in buoys, lighthouses, and railroad cars.
- plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
- plectognath — belonging to the Plectognathi, a group or order of fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick, often spiny, scaleless skin, and including the filefish, globefish, puffer, and triggerfish.
- ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
- plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- pythagorean — of or relating to Pythagoras, to his school, or to his doctrines.
- quitchgrass — Elymus repens.
- range light — one of a pattern of navigation lights, usually fixed ashore, used by vessels for manoeuvring in narrow channels at night
- readthrough — reading (def 1).
- rh negative — See under Rh factor.
- rh-negative — See under Rh factor.
- right about — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
- right angle — the angle formed by two radii of a circle that are drawn to the extremities of an arc equal to one quarter of the circle; the angle formed by two perpendicular lines that intersect; an angle of 90°.
- right brace — (character) "}". ASCII character 125. Common names: close brace; right brace; right squiggly; right squiggly bracket/brace; right curly bracket/brace; ITU-T: closing brace. Rare: unbrace; uncurly; rytit ("" = leftit); right squirrelly; {INTERCAL: bracelet ("" = embrace). Paired with {left brace
- right brain — the right cerebral hemisphere of the human brain, which includes areas associated with abstraction, artistic ability, and emotional response
- right heart — the half of the heart, containing the right ventricle and right atrium, which supplies dark-red, oxygen-deficient venous blood to the lungs for oxygenation
- right stage — the part of the stage that is right of center as one faces the audience.
- right whale — any of several large whalebone whales of the genus Balaena, of circumpolar seas: the species B. glacialis is greatly reduced in numbers.
- rough draft — writing: unfinished version
- rough trade — male homosexual prostitution, especially involving brutality or sadism.
- sash weight — a counterweight to a vertically sliding window sash.
- scratch wig — a short wig, especially one that covers only part of the head.
- sea bathing — the activity of swimming in the sea
- searchlight — a device, usually consisting of a light and reflector, for throwing a beam of light in any direction.
- self-hating — harbouring feelings of self-hatred
- self-taught — taught to oneself or by oneself to be (as indicated) without the aid of a formal education: self-taught typing; a self-taught typist.
- shaft grave — a grave consisting of a deep, rectangular pit with vertical sides, roofed over with a stone slab.
- shag carpet — shag pile carpet
- sheet glass — glass in sheet form produced by drawing or by the cylinder glass process.
- shift gears — change speed manually in a vehicle
- short-range — having a limited extent, as in distance or time: a short-range shot; a short-range plan.
- shortchange — to give less than the correct change to.
- sight draft — a draft payable upon presentation.
- sixth grade — (in the US) the sixth school year after kindergarten, usually containing pupils around 11 or 12 years old
- slaughtered — the killing or butchering of cattle, sheep, etc., especially for food.
- snatchingly — in a snatching manner
- soothsaying — the practice or art of foretelling events.
- spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
- spaghettini — pasta in the form of long thin strings
- sphragistic — of or relating to seals or signet rings.
- sponge bath — a bath in which the bather is cleaned by a wet sponge or washcloth dipped in water, without getting into a tub of water.
- stag's horn — the antlers of a stag used as a material for carved implements
- stage right — Stage right is the right side of the stage for an actor who is standing facing the audience.
- staggerbush — an ericaceous deciduous shrub, Lyonia mariana, of E North America, having white or pinkish flowers: it is poisonous to livestock
- starlighted — lit by the stars
- stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
- step change — A step change is a sudden or major change in the way that something happens or the way that someone behaves.
- stereograph — a single or double picture for a stereoscope.