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11-letter words containing a, s, u, r, g, e

  • grasscutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
  • 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.
  • groundshare — to share the facilities and running costs of a single stadium with another team
  • guaniferous — yielding guano
  • guaranteers — Plural form of guaranteer.
  • guardedness — The state or condition of being guarded.
  • guardhouses — Plural form of guardhouse.
  • guardswomen — Plural form of guardswoman.
  • 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.
  • gullywasher — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
  • hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
  • hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
  • horse guard — a black and yellow sand wasp, Bembix carolina, of the southern U.S., preying on flies that gather around horses and cattle.
  • horse laugh — a loud, coarse laugh, especially of derision.
  • horselaughs — Plural form of horselaugh.
  • hourglasses — Plural form of hourglass.
  • house organ — a periodical issued by a business or other establishment for its employees, customers, and other interested readers, presenting news about the firm, its products, and its personnel.
  • hucksterage — the business of a huckster; peddling
  • hydragogues — Plural form of hydragogue.
  • ignoramuses — Plural form of ignoramus.
  • inaugurates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inaugurate.
  • juggernauts — Plural form of juggernaut.
  • klausenburg — German name of Cluj-Napoca.
  • launderings — Plural form of laundering.
  • legislature — a deliberative body of persons, usually elective, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state; the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government.
  • life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
  • magisterium — the authority and power of the church to teach religious truth.
  • maple sugar — a yellowish-brown sugar produced by boiling down maple syrup.
  • marguerites — Plural form of marguerite.
  • maunderings — Plural form of maundering.
  • megalosaurs — Plural form of megalosaur.
  • misregulate — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
  • museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
  • onagraceous — belonging to the Onagraceae, the evening primrose family of plants.
  • onslaughter — An onslaught.
  • orange rust — a disease of blackberries and raspberries, characterized by an orange, powdery mass of spores on the undersides of the leaves and stunted, misshapen foliage, caused by a rust fungus, Gymnoconia interstitialis.
  • outgenerals — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outgeneral.
  • outswearing — Present participle of outswear.
  • parkersburg — a city in NW West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
  • persian rug — an Oriental rug made in Persia (Iran), having rich, soft colors in any of various intricate, often floral, patterns
  • ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
  • pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
  • purple sage — a plant, Salvia leucophylla, of the mint family, native to California, having silvery leaves and purple spikes of flowers.
  • quadrangles — Plural form of quadrangle.
  • retroussage — the technique or action, in etching or engraving, of drawing up ink from within the incised lines of an inked plate by deftly passing a soft cloth across its surface in order to spread ink to the adjacent areas.
  • rogue state — When politicians or journalists talk about a rogue state, they mean a country that they regard as a threat to their own country's security, for example because it supports terrorism.
  • rugosa rose — a shrub, Rosa rugosa, having densely bristled stems, wrinkled leaves, and fragrant red or white flowers.
  • sage grouse — a large grouse, Centrocercus urophasianus, of the sagebrush regions of western North America, having plumage of gray, buff, and black.
  • sand grouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
  • scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
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