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11-letter words containing t, h, a, l

  • plateholder — a lightproof container for a photographic plate, loaded into the camera with the plate and having a slide that is removed before exposing.
  • plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
  • platyrrhine — Anthropology. having a broad, flat-bridged nose.
  • 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
  • plutarchian — of or relating to the biographer Plutarch.
  • postholiday — occurring after a holiday
  • potash alum — alum1 (def 1).
  • pre-ethical — not governed by ethics, or not having an ethical or moral aspect
  • prelateship — the rank of a prelate
  • prophetical — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
  • prothalamia — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
  • prothallium — Botany. the gametophyte of ferns and related plants.
  • prothalloid — resembling a prothallus
  • 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.
  • rabbit hole — opening of a rabbit's burrow
  • range light — one of a pattern of navigation lights, usually fixed ashore, used by vessels for manoeuvring in narrow channels at night
  • rathskeller — (in Germany) the cellar of a town hall, often used as a beer hall or restaurant.
  • rattle-bush — blue false indigo.
  • reestablish — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
  • retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
  • retrophilia — a strong liking for things from the past
  • return half — the return part of a two-way ticket
  • rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
  • riefenstahl — Leni [ley-nee] /ˈleɪ ni/ (Show IPA), 1902–2003, German film director.
  • 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 whale — any of several large whalebone whales of the genus Balaena, of circumpolar seas: the species B. glacialis is greatly reduced in numbers.
  • ritual bath — a mikvah.
  • rude health — If someone is in rude health, they are strong and healthy.
  • saddlecloth — Horse Racing. a cloth placed over the saddle of a racehorse bearing the horse's number.
  • sales pitch — promotional talk
  • salt shaker — a container for salt with a perforated top to allow the salt to be shaken out.
  • saltchucker — a saltwater angler
  • saltishness — the condition of being saltish
  • scarlet hat — a cardinal's hat
  • schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
  • schematical — based on a scheme or structured arrangement
  • schoolcraft — Henry Rowe [roh] /roʊ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1864, U.S. explorer, ethnologist, and author.
  • scratch awl — an awllike device for scribing wood.
  • scratchless — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
  • sea leather — the skin of sharks, porpoises, dogfishes, etc., prepared and used for the same purposes as ordinary leather.
  • 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-hatred — the feeling of one who hates; intense dislike or extreme aversion or hostility.
  • 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.
  • shade cloth — a covering made of cloth or plastic, especially one used to control the amount of sunlight to which plants are exposed.
  • shaft alley — an enclosure on a ship for housing a propeller shaft and a walk for oilers.
  • sheet glass — glass in sheet form produced by drawing or by the cylinder glass process.
  • sheet metal — metal in sheets or thin plates.
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