11-letter words containing d, e, t, r, a
- garden flat — a flat with direct access to a garden: typically, a garden flat consists of basement accommodation in prewar property, but some are in purpose-built blocks in urban areas
- garden path — paved walkway
- garden seat — a seat, usually kept permanently outdoors in a garden
- garden-path — noting or pertaining to a sentence that is easily parsed incorrectly because its beginning suggests it has an interpretation that it clearly does not have.
- garnet jade — a green grossularite, used as a gem: not a true jade.
- gatecrashed — Simple past tense and past participle of gatecrash.
- giftwrapped — wrapped attractively in pretty paper, perhaps with ribbons or other decorations
- girdlestead — the waist
- goaltenders — Plural form of goaltender.
- goatsbeards — Plural form of goatsbeard.
- goddaughter — a female godchild.
- goldthreads — Plural form of goldthread.
- gonadotrope — a gonadotropic substance.
- good nature — pleasant disposition; kindly nature; amiability.
- goodhearted — Kind, generous and altruistic.
- goodnatured — Alternative spelling of good-natured.
- grade point — Education. a numerical equivalent to a received letter grade, usually 0 for F, 1 for D, 2 for C, 3 for B, and 4 for A, that is multiplied by the number of credits for the course: used to compute a grade point average.
- 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
- gradiometer — any instrument used to measure a gradient, as the rate of change of the geomagnetic field. Compare gradient (def 3a).
- grand terre — Grande-Terre
- grand theft — stealing large amount
- grandfather — the father of one's father or mother.
- grandmaster — the head of a military order of knighthood, a lodge, fraternal order, or the like.
- grandmother — the mother of one's father or mother.
- grandparent — a parent of a parent.
- grant-aided — given financial assistance by an organization
- graphitized — (chemistry, of carbon) Converted to graphite.
- gravidities — Plural form of gravidity.
- gravity-fed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- great world — fashionable society and its way of life
- green audit — the process of assessing the environmental impact of an organization, process, project, product, etc.: A green audit of your home can reveal ways in which you can reduce energy consumption.
- groundwater — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.
- hairbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- halberstadt — a town in central Germany, in Saxony-Anhalt: industrial centre noted for its historic buildings. Pop: 40 014 (2003 est)
- halfhearted — having or showing little enthusiasm: a halfhearted attempt to work.
- hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- hand-letter — to print by hand: She hand-lettered a “for sale” sign.
- handbreadth — a unit of linear measure from 2½ to 4 inches (6.4 to 10 cm).
- handcrafted — handicraft.
- handcrafter — One who handcrafts or engages in handcraft or handicraft.
- handwritten — to write (something) by hand.
- hard hitter — a bowler hat
- hard palate — Anatomy. the roof of the mouth, consisting of an anterior bony portion (hard palate) and a posterior muscular portion (soft palate) that separate the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.
- hard sector — (storage) An archaic floppy disk format employing multiple synchronisation holes in the media to define the sectors.
- hard-bitten — tough; stubborn.
- hard-coated — having a coarsely textured coat, as a dog.
- hard-fisted — stingy; miserly; closefisted.
- hard-ticket — a ticket entitling one to a reserved seat.
- hardecanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).