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11-letter words containing t, r, a, p, h

  • plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
  • platyrrhine — Anthropology. having a broad, flat-bridged nose.
  • plutarchian — of or relating to the biographer Plutarch.
  • 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
  • port arthur — a port in W Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Superior: created in 1970 by the merger of twin cities (Fort William and Port Arthur) and two adjoining townships.
  • postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
  • potty-chair — a small chair with an open seat over a removable pot, for use by a child during toilet training.
  • 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.
  • prelateship — the rank of a prelate
  • preterhuman — beyond what is human: preterhuman experience.
  • primateship — primacy (def 2).
  • privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
  • prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • 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
  • prothoracic — relating to an insect's prothorax
  • protopathic — noting or pertaining to a general, nondiscriminating responsiveness to pain or temperature stimuli (opposed to epicritic).
  • psychiatric — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
  • ptochocracy — government by the poor
  • 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.
  • pythagorean — of or relating to Pythagoras, to his school, or to his doctrines.
  • 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
  • rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
  • rockhampton — a city in E Queensland, in E Australia.
  • saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
  • scratch pad — a pad of paper used for jotting down ideas, informal notes, preliminary writing, etc.
  • senatorship — the office or position of a senator
  • serotherapy — therapy by means of injections of a serum obtained especially from an immune animal.
  • sex therapy — treatment of sexual disorders that have psychological causes, employing psychiatric counseling, behavior modification, and education.
  • shag carpet — shag pile carpet
  • sheep track — a pathway made by and used by sheep, often in rocky or mountainous terrain, and sometimes followed by hikers
  • shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
  • shoot craps — to play this game
  • smart phone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
  • snapshooter — an amateur photographer, especially one who takes snapshots with a simple camera.
  • spatterdash — a long gaiter to protect the trousers or stockings, as from mud while riding.
  • speechcraft — the art of rhetoric
  • spermaphyte — the placenta of a plant
  • spermatheca — a small sac or cavity in female or hermaphroditic invertebrates used to store sperm for fertilizing eggs, as in the queen bee.
  • spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
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