11-letter words containing n, e, r, s, t
- goaltenders — Plural form of goaltender.
- goniometers — Plural form of goniometer.
- governments — Plural form of government.
- grandmaster — the head of a military order of knighthood, a lodge, fraternal order, or the like.
- gravenstein — a variety of large, yellow apple with red streaks
- gravestones — Plural form of gravestone.
- 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).
- 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.
- great satan — any force, person, organization, or country that is regarded as evil, used esp of the United States by radical Islamists
- green bytes — (jargon) (Or "green words") Meta-information embedded in a file, such as the length of the file or its name; as opposed to keeping such information in a separate description file or record. By extension, the non-data bits in any self-describing format. "A GIF file contains, among other things, green bytes describing the packing method for the image". At a meeting of the SHARE Systems Division, November 22, 1964, in Washington, DC, George Mealy of IBM described the new block tape format for FORTRAN in which unformatted binary records had a Control Word. George used green chalk to describe it. No one liked the contents of the Green Word (not information, wrong location, etc.) so Conrad Weisert and Channing Jackson made badges saying "Stamp out Green Words". This was the first computer badge. Compare out-of-band, zigamorph, fence.
- green stamp — Citizens Band Radio Slang. a speeding ticket. Usually, Green Stamps. money; currency.
- green stuff — paper money.
- greenhearts — Plural form of greenheart.
- greenschist — schist colored green by an abundance of chlorite, epidote, or actinolite.
- grindstones — Plural form of grindstone.
- gristliness — The quality or state of being gristly.
- gros ventre — a river in W central Wyoming, flowing W to the Snake River. 100 miles (161 km) long.
- groundsheet — a waterproof sheet of plastic, canvas, or other durable material spread on the ground, as under a sleeping bag or in a tent, for protection against moisture.
- groundstone — A simple neolithic stone tool made by grinding.
- growthiness — the quality of being growthy
- guaranteers — Plural form of guaranteer.
- guttersnipe — a person belonging to or characteristic of the lowest social group in a city.
- hammerstein — Oscar, 1847?–1919, U.S. theatrical manager, born in Germany.
- hammerstone — an ancient stone tool used as a hammer, as for chipping flint, processing food, or breaking up bones.
- hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- harassments — Plural form of harassment.
- harem pants — a kind of baggy trousers worn by women, made of lightweight fabric and closefitting at the ankles
- hatemongers — Plural form of hatemonger.
- headhunters — Plural form of headhunter.
- headstander — A small deep-bodied freshwater fish of the Amazon region, popular in aquaria. It swims and feeds at an oblique angle with the head down.
- hear things — a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
- heartedness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being hearted.
- hearthstone — a stone forming a hearth.
- heartstring — Singular of heartstrings.
- hemipterans — Plural form of hemipteran.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- hertzsprung — Ejnar (ˈəɪnar). 1873–1967, Danish astronomer: he discovered the existence of giant and dwarf stars, originating one form of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
- 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
- hibernators — Plural form of hibernator.
- hierophants — Plural form of hierophant.
- hinterlands — Plural form of hinterland.
- hirsuteness — The characteristic of being hirsute; hairiness.
- homopterans — Plural form of homopteran.
- honesty bar — an unattended area in a hotel, resort, etc, where patrons may serve themselves drinks and are expected to leave money to pay for them
- honeyeaters — Plural form of honeyeater.
- host number — (networking) The host part of an Internet address. The rest is the network number.
- house-train — to housebreak.
- 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.
- huckstering — Present participle of huckster.