11-letter words containing o, n, a, s, i
- fusillation — the use of shooting as a method of capital punishment, esp during warfare
- fustigation — A beating with a club.
- gamogenesis — sexual reproduction.
- ganglioside — any of a class of glycolipids, found chiefly in nerve ganglia, that upon hydrolysis yield sphingosine, neuraminic acid, a fatty acid, and a monosaccharide.
- garrisoning — Present participle of garrison.
- gas station — service station (def 1).
- gasconading — extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
- gastrodynia — (pathology) gastralgia (stomach pain).
- gastronomic — the art or science of good eating.
- gazingstock — (archaic) An object, event or person that is stared at (or gazed at) by many people.
- genealogies — A line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor.
- genealogist — a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group, etc.
- generations — Plural form of generation.
- genioplasty — Mentoplasty.
- geobotanist — a person who studies geobotany
- geodynamics — (used with a singular verb) the science dealing with dynamic processes or forces within the earth.
- gestational — the process, state, or period of gestating.
- ghost train — a small train at an amusement park that travels through a dark tunnel in which sounds, lights, and mechanized objects are used to scare the people in the train
- glaciations — Plural form of glaciation.
- globalising — Present participle of globalise.
- gloss paint — Gloss paint is paint that forms a shiny surface when it dries.
- glossodynia — a condition characterized by a burning or tingling mouth region
- glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
- goat island — an island in the Niagara River in W New York, in the middle of Niagara Falls, dividing the American Falls from the Horseshoe (Canadian) Falls.
- goatishness — The state or condition of being goatish.
- gobsmacking — Causing one to be gobsmacked; astounding, flabbergasting.
- gonimoblast — a spore-bearing filament in the carpogonium of red algae
- gonycampsis — abnormal curvature of the knee.
- goods train — freight train.
- gormandizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gormandize.
- gourmandise — unrestrained enjoyment of fine foods, wines, and the like.
- gourmandism — a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess.
- graduations — Plural form of graduation.
- grain coast — a historic region on the Gulf of Guinea, in W Africa, in present-day Liberia.
- grandiosely — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grandiosity — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- graniferous — bearing grain
- granivorous — (of an animal, especially a bird) eating grain and seeds.
- guaniferous — yielding guano
- guildswoman — a woman who is a member of a guild
- habitations — Plural form of habitation.
- halsingborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, opposite Helsingör.
- harmonicist — Someone who plays the harmonica.
- harmonising — Present participle of harmonise.
- harmonistic — pertaining to a harmonist or harmony.
- harmonizers — Plural form of harmonizer.
- hash coding — (programming, algorithm) (Or "hashing") A scheme for providing rapid access to data items which are distinguished by some key. Each data item to be stored is associated with a key, e.g. the name of a person. A hash function is applied to the item's key and the resulting hash value is used as an index to select one of a number of "hash buckets" in a hash table. The table contains pointers to the original items. If, when adding a new item, the hash table already has an entry at the indicated location then that entry's key must be compared with the given key to see if it is the same. If two items' keys hash to the same value (a "hash collision") then some alternative location is used (e.g. the next free location cyclically following the indicated one). For best performance, the table size and hash function must be tailored to the number of entries and range of keys to be used. The hash function usually depends on the table size so if the table needs to be enlarged it must usually be completely rebuilt. When you look up a name in the phone book (for example), you typically hash it by extracting its first letter; the hash buckets are the alphabetically ordered letter sections. See also: btree, checksum, CRC, pseudorandom number, random, random number, soundex.
- hemianopsia — any of several conditions in which there is blindness in half of the visual field, involving one or both eyes.
- hesitations — Plural form of hesitation.