11-letter words containing t, h, r, i, p
- plutarchian — of or relating to the biographer Plutarch.
- polyhistory — the quality of a polyhistor
- polytrophic — (of certain bacteria) deriving nourishment from many organic substances.
- porkpie hat — a hat with a round flat crown and a brim that can be turned up or down
- porphyratin — any of various complex compounds formed of metals and porphyrins
- porphyritic — of, pertaining to, containing, or resembling porphyry, its texture, or its structure.
- potty-chair — a small chair with an open seat over a removable pot, for use by a child during toilet training.
- 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
- 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.
- pro-british — of or relating to Great Britain or its inhabitants.
- prochlorite — a dark green member of the chlorite group, usually foliated.
- proctorship — a person appointed to keep watch over students at examinations.
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prohibition — the act of prohibiting.
- prohibitive — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- prohibitory — prohibitive.
- prophetical — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- 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.
- prothalamia — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
- prothallium — Botany. the gametophyte of ferns and related plants.
- prothalloid — resembling a prothallus
- prothoracic — relating to an insect's prothorax
- prothrombin — a plasma protein involved in blood coagulation that on activation by factors in the plasma is converted to thrombin.
- protolithic — noting or pertaining to stone implements selected according to suitability of the form to a particular purpose without definite shaping on the part of the user.
- protopathic — noting or pertaining to a general, nondiscriminating responsiveness to pain or temperature stimuli (opposed to epicritic).
- protophilic — having or involving an affinity for hydrogen ions (protons)
- protophytic — pertaining to the class Protophyta
- provostship — the office of a provost
- proxy fight — a contest between factions of stockholders in a company, in which each group attempts to gain control by soliciting signed proxy statements for sufficient votes.
- psychiatric — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- 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.
- pyrotechnic — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- rehypnotize — to hypnotize again
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
- retinopathy — any diseased condition of the retina, especially one that is noninflammatory.
- retrophilia — a strong liking for things from the past
- rh positive — See under Rh factor.
- rh-positive — See under Rh factor.
- rheotropism — the effect of a current of water upon the direction of plant growth.