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11-letter words containing a, n, s, e, r

  • kauri resin — a hard resin obtained from the bark of the kauri or found, sometimes in masses of as much as 100 pounds (45 kg), in the soil where the tree has grown: used chiefly in making varnish.
  • keratinised — Simple past tense and past participle of keratinise.
  • keratoconus — a degenerative condition characterized by conical protrusion of the cornea and irregular astigmatism.
  • kew gardens — the Royal Botanic Gardens in the Greater London borough of Richmond-upon-Thames, on the River Thames; established in 1759 and given to the nation in 1841
  • kinesiatric — of or relating to kinesiatrics
  • klausenburg — German name of Cluj-Napoca.
  • kleene star — (text)   (Or "Kleene closure", named after Stephen Kleene) The postfix "*" operator used in regular expressions, Extended Backus-Naur Form, and similar formalisms to specify a match for zero or more occurrences of the preceding expression. For example, the regular expression "be*t" would match the string "bt", "bet", "beet", "beeeeet", and so on.
  • knotgrasses — Plural form of knotgrass.
  • konrad zuse — (person)   The designer of the first programming language, Plankalkül, and the first fully functional program-controlled electromechanical digital computer in the world, the Z3. He died on 1995-12-18 in Huenfeld, Germany.
  • kristiansen — Ingrid. born 1956, Norwegian long-distance runner: world 10 000 metres record holder (1986–93)
  • la fresnaye — Roger de [raw-zhey duh] /rɔˈʒeɪ də/ (Show IPA), 1885–1925, French painter.
  • lacerations — Plural form of laceration.
  • ladyfingers — Plural form of ladyfinger.
  • laggardness — The quality or state of being a laggard.
  • lambrequins — Plural form of lambrequin.
  • lanarkshire — a historic county in S Scotland.
  • landholders — Plural form of landholder.
  • landlubbers — Plural form of landlubber.
  • landscapers — Plural form of landscaper.
  • landsteiner — Karl [kahrl;; German kahrl] /kɑrl;; German kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1868–1943, Austrian pathologist in the U.S.: Nobel Prize 1930.
  • lanternfish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
  • larcenously — In a larcenous manner.
  • launderings — Plural form of laundering.
  • laundresses — Plural form of laundress.
  • lead singer — main singer in a popular music group
  • leaf spring — a long, narrow, multiple spring composed of several layers of spring metal bracketed together: used in some suspension systems of carriages and automobiles.
  • learnedness — The quality of being learned.
  • legendaries — of, relating to, or of the nature of a legend.
  • legionaries — Plural form of legionary.
  • lemon grass — any of several lemon-scented grasses of the genus Cymbopogon, especially C. citratus, of tropical regions, yielding lemon-grass oil.
  • lemon shark — a common shallow-water shark, Negaprion brevirostris, having a yellowish body and inhabiting inshore regions of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil.
  • leopardskin — the skin of a leopard
  • leprechauns — a dwarf or sprite.
  • lewis range — a mountain range in NW Montana, a front range of the N Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Mount Cleveland, 10,466 feet (3192 meters).
  • liberalness — The property of being liberal.
  • lindisfarne — Holy Island (def 1).
  • line starve — (MIT, opposite of line feed) 1. To feed paper through a printer the wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this). On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to the previous line of the screen. "To print "X squared", you just output "X", line starve, "2", line feed." (The line starve causes the "2" to appear on the line above the "X", and the line feed gets back to the original line.) 2. A character (or character sequence) that causes a terminal to perform this action. ASCII 26, also called SUB or control-Z, was one common line-starve character in the days before microcomputers and the X3.64 terminal standard. Unlike "line feed", "line starve" is *not* standard ASCII terminology. Even among hackers it is considered silly. 3. (Proposed) A sequence such as \c (used in System V echo, as well as nroff and troff) that suppresses a newline or other character(s) that would normally be emitted.
  • linearities — Plural form of linearity.
  • linebackers — Plural form of linebacker.
  • literalness — in accordance with, involving, or being the primary or strict meaning of the word or words; not figurative or metaphorical: the literal meaning of a word.
  • lunarscapes — Plural form of lunarscape.
  • lutheranism — of or relating to Luther, adhering to his doctrines, or belonging to one of the Protestant churches that bear his name.
  • macdesigner — A design CASE tool for the Mac from Excel Software, Inc.
  • machineries — an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
  • maidservant — a female servant.
  • mailpersons — Plural form of mailperson.
  • main course — Nautical. a square mainsail.
  • main street — a novel (1920) by Sinclair Lewis.
  • mainlanders — Plural form of mainlander.
  • mains water — gas supplied to a building through pipes
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