11-letter words containing a, i, n, e, r
- gracileness — The state or quality of being gracile.
- grade point — Education. a numerical equivalent to a received letter grade, usually 0 for F, 1 for D, 2 for C, 3 for B, and 4 for A, that is multiplied by the number of credits for the course: used to compute a grade point average.
- graminivore — An herbivorous animal, a grazer, that feeds primarily on grasses.
- grand river — former name of the Colorado River above its junction with the Green River in SE Utah.
- grandbabies — Plural form of grandbaby.
- grandiosely — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grandnieces — Plural form of grandniece.
- grangerized — Simple past tense and past participle of grangerize.
- graniferous — bearing grain
- granitelike — Resembling granite.
- graniteware — a kind of ironware with a gray, stonelike enamel.
- grant-aided — given financial assistance by an organization
- graphicness — The quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness.
- grass snipe — the pectoral sandpiper.
- gravenstein — a variety of large, yellow apple with red streaks
- greasepaint — an oily mixture of melted tallow or grease and a pigment, used by actors, clowns, etc., for making up their faces.
- great basin — a region in the Western U.S. that has no drainage to the ocean: includes most of Nevada and parts of Utah, California, Oregon, and Idaho. 210,000 sq. mi. (544,000 sq. km).
- great-niece — a daughter of one's nephew or niece; grandniece.
- green audit — the process of assessing the environmental impact of an organization, process, project, product, etc.: A green audit of your home can reveal ways in which you can reduce energy consumption.
- greenlandic — a dialect of Inuit, spoken in Greenland.
- greenmailer — One who greenmails.
- grenadelike — Resembling a grenade (weapon).
- grindelwald — a valley and resort in central Switzerland, in the Bernese Oberland: mountaineering centre, with the Wetterhorn and the Eiger nearby
- guaniferous — yielding guano
- gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
- guinea corn — durra.
- guinea worm — a long, slender roundworm, Dracunculus medinensis, parasitic under the skin of humans and animals, common in parts of India and Africa.
- hairbrained — giddy; reckless.
- hairweaving — the attachment of matching hair to a base of nylon thread interwoven with a person's own hair, as to cover a bald area or to add length: Three of the makeovers involved hairweaving.
- half gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward half-somersault, entering the water headfirst and facing the springboard.
- half-ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- hammerstein — Oscar, 1847?–1919, U.S. theatrical manager, born in Germany.
- hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- handicapper — Horse Racing. a racetrack official or employee who assigns the weight a horse must carry in a race. a person employed, as by a newspaper, to make predictions on the outcomes of horse races.
- handwringer — a person who wrings the hands often as a display of worry or upset
- handwritten — to write (something) by hand.
- hang glider — a kitelike glider consisting of a V -shaped wing underneath which the pilot is strapped: kept aloft by updrafts and guided by the pilot's shifting body weight.
- hang-glider — a kitelike glider consisting of a V -shaped wing underneath which the pilot is strapped: kept aloft by updrafts and guided by the pilot's shifting body weight.
- harbingered — Simple past tense and past participle of harbinger.
- hard-bitten — tough; stubborn.
- hardicanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- hardwearing — resistant to extensive wear; durable: a pair of hardwearing jeans.
- harebrained — giddy; reckless.
- harmonizers — Plural form of harmonizer.
- head injury — wound to the head
- head margin — the empty space between the first line or other printed element on a page and the top of the page.
- hear things — a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
- hearing aid — a compact electronic amplifier worn to improve one's hearing, usually placed in or behind the ear.
- hearing dog — a dog that has been trained to alert a hearing-impaired person to sounds, as a telephone ringing or dangerous noises.
- heartaching — emotional pain or distress; sorrow; grief; anguish.