11-letter words containing a, g, u, s, t
- edgar guest — Edgar A(lbert) 1881–1959, U.S. journalist and writer of verse, born in England.
- egg custard — sweet custard made with milk and egg and baked
- epigastrium — The part of the upper abdomen immediately over the stomach.
- epignathous — having a protruding upper jaw
- figurations — Plural form of figuration.
- foot guards — (in Britain) an infantry unit forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- fruit sugar — fructose.
- frustrating — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
- fungistatic — (of a substance or preparation) inhibiting the growth of a fungus.
- fungus gnat — any of several mosquitolike insects of the family Mycetophilidae, the larvae of which feed on fungi or decaying vegetation.
- fustigating — Present participle of fustigate.
- fustigation — A beating with a club.
- gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- gangbusting — the activity of a gangbuster
- gas fixture — a heating or lighting fixture that uses gas
- gas turbine — a turbine utilizing the gaseous products of combustion.
- gesticulant — making or tending to make gestures or gesticulations: a gesticulant speaker.
- gesticulate — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- giant squid — any squid of the genus Architeuthis, inhabiting deep ocean bottoms and sometimes attaining an arm span of 65 feet (20 meters) or more.
- gigantesque — of a huge or gigantic size; of or suited to a giant.
- glasscutter — a small hand tool that is specially designed for cutting sheets of glass, having a cutting wheel of steel or tungsten carbide and notches for snapping the glass
- glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
- glaucescent — becoming glaucous; somewhat glaucous.
- glutaminase — an enzyme used to treat cancer
- goatsuckers — Plural form of goatsucker.
- graduations — Plural form of graduation.
- grapefruits — Plural form of grapefruit.
- grass court — an outdoor tennis court having a grass surface.
- grasscutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
- gratuitious — Misspelling of gratuitous.
- great runes — Uppercase-only text or display messages. Some archaic operating systems still emit these. See also runes, smash case, fold case. Decades ago, back in the days when it was the sole supplier of long-distance hardcopy transmittal devices, the Teletype Corporation was faced with a major design choice. To shorten code lengths and cut complexity in the printing mechanism, it had been decided that teletypes would use a monocase font, either ALL UPPER or all lower. The Question Of The Day was therefore, which one to choose. A study was conducted on readability under various conditions of bad ribbon, worn print hammers, etc. Lowercase won; it is less dense and has more distinctive letterforms, and is thus much easier to read both under ideal conditions and when the letters are mangled or partly obscured. The results were filtered up through management. The chairman of Teletype killed the proposal because it failed one incredibly important criterion: "It would be impossible to spell the name of the Deity correctly." In this way (or so, at least, hacker folklore has it) superstition triumphed over utility. Teletypes were the major input devices on most early computers, and terminal manufacturers looking for corners to cut naturally followed suit until well into the 1970s. Thus, that one bad call stuck us with Great Runes for thirty years.
- guaranteers — Plural form of guaranteer.
- guesstimate — to estimate without substantial basis in facts or statistics.
- guestimates — Plural form of guestimate.
- gulf states — the oil-producing states around the Persian Gulf: Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman
- gulf stream — a warm ocean current flowing N from the Gulf of Mexico, along the E coast of the U.S., to an area off the SE coast of Newfoundland, where it becomes the western terminus of the North Atlantic Current.
- gum elastic — rubber1 (def 1).
- gustatorily — in a gustatory manner
- gustavus ii — (Gustavus Adolphus"Lion of the North") 1594–1632, king of Sweden 1611–32: national military hero (grandson of Gustavus I).
- gustavus iv — (Gustavus Adolphus) 1778–1837, king of Sweden 1792–1809 (son of Gustavus III).
- gustavus vi — (Gustaf Adolf) 1882–1973, king of Sweden 1950–73 (son of Gustavus V).
- gutturalism — The quality of being guttural.
- gymnanthous — achlamydeous.
- hasta luego — so long; (I'll) see you soon
- hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
- haughtiness — disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.
- heptagynous — (of a flower) having seven pistils
- house agent — a real-estate agent.
- hsuan t'ung — Pu-yi, Henry.
- hsuan tsung — a.d. 685–762, Chinese emperor of the Tang dynasty 712–756.