11-letter words containing a, t, r, i, s
- graptolites — Plural form of graptolite.
- grass skirt — a skirt made from long grass, typically worn by female dancers from some Pacific islands
- gratuitious — Misspelling of gratuitous.
- gravenstein — a variety of large, yellow apple with red streaks
- 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).
- gustatorily — in a gustatory manner
- gutturalism — The quality of being guttural.
- gyrostatics — the science that deals with the laws of rotating bodies.
- hair stroke — a fine line in writing or printing.
- hairstreaks — Plural form of hairstreak.
- hairstyling — a person who designs and arranges hair styles.
- hairstylist — A person who cuts and styles people's hair professionally.
- 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.
- hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- handicrafts — Plural form of handicraft.
- hard-fisted — stingy; miserly; closefisted.
- harmonicist — Someone who plays the harmonica.
- harmonistic — pertaining to a harmonist or harmony.
- haruspicate — of or relating to a haruspex
- harvestfish — a butterfish of the genus Peprilus, especially P. alepidotus of Atlantic waters.
- harvesttime — the time of year when a crop or crops are harvested, especially autumn.
- hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
- head-strict — (theory) A head-strict function will not necessarily evaluate every cons cell of its (list) argument, but whenever it does evaluate a cons cell it will also evaluate the element in the head of that cell. An example of a head-strict function is beforeZero :: [Int] -> [Int] beforeZero [] = [] beforeZero (0:xs) = [] beforeZero (x:xs) = x : beforeZero xs which returns a list up to the first zero. This pattern of evaluation is important because it is common in functions which operate on a list of inputs. See also tail-strict, hyperstrict.
- headstripes — Plural form of headstripe.
- headwaiters — Plural form of headwaiter.
- health risk — something that could cause harm to people's health
- hear things — a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
- heartstring — Singular of heartstrings.
- hemipterans — Plural form of hemipteran.
- heptarchies — Plural form of heptarchy.
- heptarchist — A ruler of one division of a heptarchy.
- hetaerismic — of or relating to courtesans
- hetairismic — relating to hetairism, concubinage
- heteroscian — a name applied to the people who live in temperate zones, so given because in these areas shadows created by the sun at noon will fall in opposite directions
- heterotaxis — abnormal or irregular arrangement, as of parts of the body, geological strata, etc.
- heuristical — Of or pertaining to heuristics.
- hexametrist — a person who writes in hexameters
- hibernators — Plural form of hibernator.
- hierarchist — hierarchical principles, rule, or influence.
- hierophants — Plural form of hierophant.
- hinterlands — Plural form of hinterland.
- hippeastrum — any plant of the South American amaryllidaceous genus Hippeastrum: cultivated for their large funnel-shaped typically red flowers
- hippiatrics — the study of the diseases of horses
- hippiatrist — someone who treats the diseases of horses