11-letter words containing a, r, e, t, s
- gastronomer — A lover of good food; a connoisseur or gourmet.
- gastronomes — Plural form of gastronome.
- gastroscope — a lighted flexible tubular instrument passed through the mouth for examining the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum.
- gatecrashed — Simple past tense and past participle of gatecrash.
- gatecrasher — a person who attends or enters a social function without an invitation, a theater without a ticket, etc.
- gatekeepers — Plural form of gatekeeper.
- generalists — Plural form of generalist.
- generations — Plural form of generation.
- geostrategy — The strategic use of geopolitics.
- gestatorial — related to carrying
- girdlestead — the waist
- glabrescent — becoming glabrous.
- 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
- goaltenders — Plural form of goaltender.
- goatsbeards — Plural form of goatsbeard.
- goatsuckers — Plural form of goatsucker.
- goldthreads — Plural form of goldthread.
- grade sheet — a piece of paper on which a student's grades are recorded
- graded post — a position in a school having special responsibility for which additional payment is given
- grandmaster — the head of a military order of knighthood, a lodge, fraternal order, or the like.
- grape stake — a post used in vineyards to support wires along which grapevines are trained.
- grapefruits — Plural form of grapefruit.
- graptolites — Plural form of graptolite.
- grass style — a style of Japanese calligraphy and sumi-e painting, characterized chiefly by free or loose brush strokes.
- grasscutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
- gravenstein — a variety of large, yellow apple with red streaks
- gravestones — Plural form of gravestone.
- gravidities — Plural form of gravidity.
- gravimeters — Plural form of gravimeter.
- 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 falls — a city in central Montana, on the Missouri River.
- great gross — a unit of quantity equivalent to 12 gross. Abbreviation: GGR.
- great lakes — group of lakes in North America
- 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.
- great satan — any force, person, organization, or country that is regarded as evil, used esp of the United States by radical Islamists
- green stamp — Citizens Band Radio Slang. a speeding ticket. Usually, Green Stamps. money; currency.
- greenhearts — Plural form of greenheart.
- guaranteers — Plural form of guaranteer.
- 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.
- hair stroke — a fine line in writing or printing.
- hairstreaks — Plural form of hairstreak.
- halberstadt — a town in central Germany, in Saxony-Anhalt: industrial centre noted for its historic buildings. Pop: 40 014 (2003 est)
- half sister — sister (def 2).
- half-sister — sister (def 2).
- hammersmith — a borough of Greater London, England.
- hammerstein — Oscar, 1847?–1919, U.S. theatrical manager, born in Germany.
- hammerstone — an ancient stone tool used as a hammer, as for chipping flint, processing food, or breaking up bones.
- hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- harassments — Plural form of harassment.