11-letter words containing a, l, e, t, u
- fluticasone — (organic compound) A synthetic corticosteroid whose furoate and propionate forms are used as topical anti-inflammatories.
- flutterball — (baseball) A type of pitch; knuckleball.
- folliculate — pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling a follicle or follicles; provided with follicles.
- forficulate — resembling scissors
- fortunately — having good fortune; receiving good from uncertain or unexpected sources; lucky: a fortunate young actor who got the lead in the play.
- foul matter — Printing. materials, as manuscript, galleys, or proofs, that have been superseded by revised proofs or galleys or by the bound book, and have been returned to the publisher by the printer.
- fracturable — Capable of being fractured.
- funambulate — to walk on a tightrope
- fundamental — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- furtwangler — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1886–1954, German orchestral conductor.
- gemmulation — the process of reproduction by gemmules.
- geniculated — Geniculate.
- 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.
- get a laugh — If a person or their comment gets a laugh or raises a laugh, they make the people listening to them laugh.
- 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
- glaucescent — becoming glaucous; somewhat glaucous.
- glomerulate — grouped in small, dense clusters
- glutaminase — an enzyme used to treat cancer
- glutathione — a crystalline, water-soluble peptide of glutamic acid, cysteine, and glycine, C 10 H 17 N 3 O 6 S, found in blood and in animal and plant tissues, and important in tissue oxidations and in the activation of some enzymes.
- granulocyte — a circulating white blood cell having prominent granules in the cytoplasm and a nucleus of two or more lobes.
- gray mullet — mullet1 (def 1).
- great mogul — the emperor of the former Mogul Empire in India founded in 1526 by Baber.
- great-uncle — a granduncle.
- 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).
- gutter ball — a bowling ball that is rolled into one of the gutters and does not hit any pins.
- gutturalize — to speak or pronounce (something) in a guttural manner.
- haemolutein — (obsolete) bilirubin.
- half-hunter — a watch with a hinged lid in which a small circular opening or crystal allows the approximate time to be read
- half-minute — 30 seconds
- hallucinate — to have hallucinations.
- hasta luego — so long; (I'll) see you soon
- hatefulness — arousing hate or deserving to be hated: the hateful oppression of dictators.
- haustellate — having a haustellum.
- haute ecole — a series of intricate steps, gaits, etc., taught to an exhibition horse.
- haute-loire — a department in central France. 1931 sq. mi. (5000 sq. km). Capital: Le Puy.
- health club — a usually private club that offers its members facilities for exercising and physical conditioning.
- healthfully — conducive to health; wholesome or salutary: a healthful diet.
- heater plug — one of usually four plugs fitted to the cylinder block of a diesel engine that warms the engine chamber to facilitate starting in cold weather
- heptangular — having seven angles.
- heuristical — Of or pertaining to heuristics.
- house plant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- houseplants — Plural form of houseplant.
- huitlacoche — Corn smut prepared as a delicacy.
- humiliative — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- hurdle rate — the rate of return that a proposed project must provide if it is to be worth considering: usually calculated as the cost of the capital involved adjusted by a risk factor
- ill-natured — having or showing an unkindly or unpleasant disposition.
- illuminated — to supply or brighten with light; light up.