11-letter words containing e, a, s, t, u
- goatsuckers — Plural form of goatsucker.
- grapefruits — Plural form of grapefruit.
- 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.
- guaranteers — Plural form of guaranteer.
- guesstimate — to estimate without substantial basis in facts or statistics.
- guestimates — Plural form of guestimate.
- gulf states — the oil-producing states around the Persian Gulf: Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman
- 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.
- gum elastic — rubber1 (def 1).
- haruspicate — of or relating to a haruspex
- hash bucket — hash coding
- hasta luego — so long; (I'll) see you soon
- hatefulness — arousing hate or deserving to be hated: the hateful oppression of dictators.
- hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
- haughtiness — disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.
- haustellate — having a haustellum.
- haute-saone — a department in E France. 2075 sq. mi. (5375 sq. km). Capital: Vesoul.
- headhunters — Plural form of headhunter.
- heartstruck — Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind.
- heat source — sth that generates warmth
- heptagynous — (of a flower) having seven pistils
- heptamerous — consisting of or divided into seven parts.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- heuristical — Of or pertaining to heuristics.
- hippeastrum — any plant of the South American amaryllidaceous genus Hippeastrum: cultivated for their large funnel-shaped typically red flowers
- house agent — a real-estate agent.
- house party — the guests at such an affair or party: The house party goes sailing today.
- house plant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- house-craft — skill in domestic management
- house-train — to housebreak.
- houseboater — One who lives in a houseboat.
- housefather — a man responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc.
- housemaster — a man who is in charge of a house or a dormitory in a private school for boys.
- houseparent — one of a married couple responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc., sometimes acting solely as an advisor, but often serving as host or hostess, chaperon, housekeeper, etc.
- houseplants — Plural form of houseplant.
- hucksterage — the business of a huckster; peddling
- illuminates — to supply or brighten with light; light up.
- illustrated — containing pictures, drawings, and other illustrations: an illustrated book.
- illustrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of illustrate.
- impostumate — affected by an abscess
- inaugurates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inaugurate.
- incapsulate — Alternative form of encapsulate.
- inductances — Plural form of inductance.
- inexhausted — Not exhausted.
- inosculated — Simple past tense and past participle of inosculate.
- inosculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inosculate.
- inscrutable — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- insectarium — a place in which a collection of living insects is kept, as in a zoo.
- insinuative — to suggest or hint slyly: He insinuated that they were lying.