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12-letter words containing e, a, s, t, r

  • grandstanded — Simple past tense and past participle of grandstand.
  • grandstander — the main seating area of a stadium, racetrack, parade route, or the like, usually consisting of tiers with rows of individual seats.
  • granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
  • grapple shot — a grapnellike projectile fired from a gun and used as a hold for the end of a line in rescue operations or in kedging.
  • grass cutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
  • grass-cutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
  • gratefulness — warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help.
  • grease paint — an oily mixture of melted tallow or grease and a pigment, used by actors, clowns, etc., for making up their faces.
  • great gatsby — a novel (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
  • great plains — a semiarid region E of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. and Canada.
  • great schism — a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378–1417, over papal succession, during which there were two, or sometimes three, claimants to the papal office.
  • great spirit — the chief deity in the religion of many North American Indian tribes.
  • great sunday — Easter Sunday.
  • great vassal — (in feudal society) a man who entered into a personal relationship with a king to whom he paid homage and fealty in return for protection and often a fief.
  • greenmarkets — Plural form of greenmarket.
  • grossularite — a mineral, calcium aluminum garnet, Ca 3 Al 2 Si 3 O 12 , occurring in gray-white to pinkish crystals.
  • ground state — the state of least energy of a particle, as an atom, or of a system of particles.
  • gustav hertz — Gustav [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1887–1975, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1925.
  • gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
  • gutturalness — The quality of being guttural.
  • gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
  • hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
  • half-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
  • handbreadths — Plural form of handbreadth.
  • handsbreadth — A small distance.
  • harbormaster — A harbormaster is the official in charge of a harbor.
  • harris tweed — a hand-woven tweed made only by residents in the Outer Hebrides from locally dyed and spun wool
  • harvest home — the bringing home of the harvest.
  • harvest mite — chigger (def 1).
  • harvest moon — the moon at and about the period of fullness that is nearest to the autumnal equinox.
  • harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
  • harvest time — season when crops are gathered
  • head for sth — If you a have a head for something, you can deal with it easily. For example, if you have a head for figures, you can do arithmetic easily, and if you have a head for heights, you can climb to a great height without feeling afraid.
  • headforemost — headfirst (def 1).
  • headmasterly — In a manner befitting a headmaster.
  • headmistress — a woman in charge of a private school.
  • headquarters — a center of operations, as of the police or a business, from which orders are issued; the chief administrative office of an organization: The operatives were always in touch with headquarters.
  • headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
  • health scare — a state of alarm caused by a revelation concerning public heath
  • hearing test — a test to establish whether someone's hearing is normal or whether they have suffered some degree of hearing loss
  • heart-shaped — shaped like a stylized heart with a double rounded top
  • heartfulness — The state or quality of being heartful.
  • hearthstones — Plural form of hearthstone.
  • heartstopper — something so frightening or emotionally gripping as to make one's heart seem to stop beating: We didn't crash, but it was a heartstopper.
  • heartstrings — (obsolete, anatomy) The tendons once thought to brace the heart. (15th-19th c.).
  • hellgramites — Plural form of hellgramite.
  • hemarthrosis — (pathology) bleeding in the joints.
  • hemihydrates — Plural form of hemihydrate.
  • hemiparasite — A plant that obtains or may obtain part of its food by parasitism, e.g., mistletoe, which also photosynthesizes.
  • heptahedrons — Plural form of heptahedron.
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