11-letter words containing rh
- menorrhagia — excessive menstrual discharge.
- monorhinous — having a single, median nostril, as the cyclostomes.
- motherhouse — The monastery from which the other 'houses' of a religious order or congregation were (directly or indirectly) founded, often eponymous.
- mycorrhizae — Plural form of mycorrhiza.
- mycorrhizas — Plural form of mycorrhiza.
- niederrhein — a section of the Rhine River between Bonn, Germany and the North Sea.
- niggerheads — Plural form of niggerhead.
- nonrhythmic — Not having rhythm; irregular.
- overhanging — extending or dangling
- overharvest — the harvesting of plants or animals in an unsustainable manner
- overhastily — in such a way as to be excessively hasty or done without enough consideration
- overheating — heating (something) excessively
- overhunting — to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
- oxyrhynchus — a fish found in the Nile, sometimes depicted on Egyptian sculptures and coins
- paperhanger — a person whose job is covering walls with wallpaper.
- platyrrhine — Anthropology. having a broad, flat-bridged nose.
- porterhouse — Also called porterhouse steak. a choice cut of beef from between the prime ribs and the sirloin.
- preterhuman — beyond what is human: preterhuman experience.
- pyrrhuloxia — a cardinallike grosbeak, Cardinalis (Pyrrhuloxia) sinuatus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a bill superficially resembling that of a parrot.
- rh negative — See under Rh factor.
- rh positive — See under Rh factor.
- rh-negative — See under Rh factor.
- rh-positive — See under Rh factor.
- rhabdocoele — any member of the turbellarian flatworm order Neorhabdocoela, comprising both freshwater and marine species, having a simple saclike digestive system.
- rhabdomancy — divination by means of a rod or wand, especially in discovering ores, springs of water, etc.
- rhabdomyoma — a benign tumor made up of striated muscular tissue.
- rhabdovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, including the rabies virus.
- rhagadiform — of or relating to rhagades
- rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
- rhapsodical — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
- rhea silvia — a vestal virgin who became the mother, by Mars, of Romulus and Remus.
- rheinhessen — a former Prussian province, now part of Hesse, Germany.
- rheotropism — the effect of a current of water upon the direction of plant growth.
- rhesus baby — a baby suffering from haemolytic disease at birth as its red blood cells (which are Rh positive) have been attacked in the womb by antibodies from its Rh negative mother
- rhetorician — an expert in the art of rhetoric.
- rheumaticky — affected with rheumatism
- rhine river — Joseph Banks, 1895–1980, U.S. psychologist: pioneer in parapsychology.
- rhinestoned — adorned with rhinestones
- rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
- rhinorrhoea — an excessive discharge of mucus from the nose.
- rhizanthous — bearing flowers directly from the root.
- rhizoctonia — any of various soil-inhabiting fungi of the genus Rhizoctonia, some species of which are destructive to cultivated plants, causing damping off of seedlings, foliage blight, root and stem cankers, and rot of storage organs.
- rhizomatous — a rootlike subterranean stem, commonly horizontal in position, that usually produces roots below and sends up shoots progressively from the upper surface.
- rhizosphere — the area of soil that surrounds the roots of a plant and is altered by the plant's root growth, nutrients, respiration, etc.
- rhododaphne — a shrub with narrow, poisonous evergreen leaves and attractive pink flowers, also known as oleander or rosebay
- rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
- rhone river — a river flowing from the Alps in S Switzerland through the Lake of Geneva and SE France into the Mediterranean. 504 miles (810 km) long.
- rhône-alpes — a region of E France: mainly mountainous, rising to the edge of the Massif Central in the west and the French Alps in the east; drained by the Rivers Rhône, Saône, and Isère
- rhyme royal — a form of verse introduced into English by Chaucer, consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter in which there are three rhymes, the first line rhyming with the third, the second with the fourth and fifth, and the sixth with the seventh.
- rhymesters' — a writer of inferior verse; poetaster.