11-letter words containing r, a, s, p
- grants pass — a city in SW Oregon.
- grape stake — a post used in vineyards to support wires along which grapevines are trained.
- grape sugar — dextrose.
- grapefruits — Plural form of grapefruit.
- graphicness — The quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness.
- graptolites — Plural form of graptolite.
- grass snipe — the pectoral sandpiper.
- grasshopper — any of numerous herbivorous, orthopterous insects, especially of the families Acrididae and Tettigoniidae, having the hind legs adapted for leaping and having chewing mouth parts, some species being highly destructive to vegetation. Compare locust (def 1), long-horned grasshopper.
- gravisphere — the area in which the gravitational force of a celestial body is predominant.
- greasepaint — an oily mixture of melted tallow or grease and a pigment, used by actors, clowns, etc., for making up their faces.
- greaseproof — Resistant to grease.
- greasy pole — a pole covered with grease to make it slippery and difficult to climb, often used as entertainment
- green stamp — Citizens Band Radio Slang. a speeding ticket. Usually, Green Stamps. money; currency.
- gyrocompass — a navigational compass containing a gyroscope rotor, that, when adjusted for the latitude and speed of the vessel or aircraft, indicates the direction of true north along the surface of the earth or communicates this information to one or more gyro repeaters.
- hackerspace — A place where hackers meet to work on programming and hardware projects together, and to share their knowledge.
- hairsprings — Plural form of hairspring.
- handsprings — Plural form of handspring.
- handyperson — a person who is practiced at doing maintenance work.
- haplogroups — Plural form of haplogroup.
- hard porn's — hard-core pornography.
- hardpressed — Subject to difficulty in accomplishing or making progress.
- hardscaping — Hardscape.
- harem pants — a kind of baggy trousers worn by women, made of lightweight fabric and closefitting at the ankles
- harpsichord — a keyboard instrument, precursor of the piano, in which the strings are plucked by leather or quill points connected with the keys, in common use from the 16th to the 18th century, and revived in the 20th.
- harrumphers — Plural form of harrumpher.
- haruspicate — of or relating to a haruspex
- headstripes — Plural form of headstripe.
- heartshaped — Alternative form of heart-shaped.
- heat cramps — a cramp or muscular spasm caused by loss of water and salt following prolonged exertion in hot weather.
- heliographs — Plural form of heliograph.
- hemiparesis — partial paralysis affecting only one side of the body.
- hemipterans — Plural form of hemipteran.
- heptamerous — consisting of or divided into seven parts.
- heptameters — Plural form of heptameter.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- heptarchies — Plural form of heptarchy.
- heptarchist — A ruler of one division of a heptarchy.
- heteroplasm — (pathology) Tissue growing in a part of the body where it does not normally occur.
- hierophants — Plural form of hierophant.
- hippeastrum — any plant of the South American amaryllidaceous genus Hippeastrum: cultivated for their large funnel-shaped typically red flowers
- hippiatrics — the study of the diseases of horses
- hippiatrist — someone who treats the diseases of horses
- hippocrates — ("Father of Medicine") c460–c377 b.c, Greek physician.
- histography — a treatise on or description of organic tissues.
- holophrases — a word functioning as a phrase or sentence, as the imperative Go!
- holophrasis — the expression of the ideas of a phrase or sentence in one word; polysynthesis: a language characterized by holophrasis.
- homopterans — Plural form of homopteran.
- hoppergrass — grasshopper (def 1).
- horn-spread — (of a horned creature) the distance between the outermost tips of the horns.
- horse opera — a television or radio program or motion picture about the Wild West, often presented serially and usually dealing with adventures of cowboys, gunmen, gold prospectors, etc. Compare Western (def 8).