11-letter words containing r, e, t, y
- gray matter — Anatomy. nerve tissue, especially of the brain and spinal cord, that contains fibers and nerve cell bodies and is dark reddish-gray. Compare white matter.
- gray mullet — mullet1 (def 1).
- greedy guts — a glutton
- 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 party — a liberal political party especially in Germany focusing on environmental issues.
- grey import — an imported vehicle that does not have an exact model equivalent in the receiving country
- grey knight — an ambiguous intervener in a takeover battle, who makes a counterbid for the shares of the target company without having made his intentions clear
- grey market — Grey market goods are bought unofficially and then sold to customers at lower prices than usual.
- grey matter — You can refer to your intelligence or your brains as grey matter.
- grey mullet — any teleost food fish of the family Mugilidae, mostly occurring in coastal regions, having a spindle-shaped body and a broad fleshy mouth
- grotesquely — odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
- grotesquery — grotesque character.
- gynocentric — Centered on or concerned exclusively with women; taking a female (or specifically a feminist) point of view.
- hairy vetch — a plant, Vicia villosa, of the legume family, native to Eurasia, having hairy stems and violet and white flowers, widely grown as forage and as a cover crop.
- harvest fly — cicada
- heartfeltly — In a heartfelt manner.
- heartlessly — unfeeling; unkind; unsympathetic; harsh; cruel: heartless words; a heartless ruler.
- heavy water — water in which hydrogen atoms have been replaced by deuterium, used chiefly as a coolant in nuclear reactors.
- hectoringly — So as to hector or bully.
- hematocryal — cold-blooded; poikilothermal.
- hemerythrin — a type of protein responsible for oxygen transportation in some marine invertebrates
- hemielytron — hemelytron.
- hemihydrate — a hydrate in which there are two molecules of the compound for each molecule of water.
- hemotherapy — therapy by means of blood, serum, or plasma transfusion.
- heretically — of, relating to, or characteristic of heretics or heresy.
- hermeticity — The condition of being hermetic (airtight).
- herpetology — the branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians.
- heterocarpy — the production of more than one kind of fruit in one plant.
- heterocercy — the condition or state of having a heterocercal tail
- heterocycle — (organic chemistry) A heterocyclic compound or ring.
- heterodoxly — In a heterodox manner.
- heterodyned — Simple past tense and past participle of heterodyne.
- heterolayer — Any of a series of thin layers of different materials in a semiconductor (or similar) device.
- heterolysis — The dissolution of cells by lysins or enzymes from different species.
- heterolytic — Of or pertaining to heterolysis.
- heterophemy — The use of one word or phrase when another is meant.
- heterophony — the simultaneous performance of the same melodic line, with slight individual variations, by two or more performers.
- heterophyte — a plant that secures its nutrition directly or indirectly from other organisms; a parasite or saprophyte.
- heterospory — the production of both microspores and megaspores.
- heterostyly — the condition in certain plants, such as primroses, of having styles of different lengths, each type of style in flowers on different plants, which promotes cross-pollination
- heterotypic — of or relating to the first or reductional division in meiosis.
- hexahydrate — a hydrate that contains six molecules of water, as magnesium chloride, MgCl 2 ⋅6H 2 O.
- hieronymite — a member of a congregation of hermits named after St. Jerome.
- hilary term — the spring term at Oxford University, the Inns of Court, and some other educational establishments
- historyless — Lacking history.
- holy father — a title of the pope.
- holy mother — honorific title of the Virgin Mary, often applied by analogy to the Roman Catholic Church.
- holy terror — a difficult or frightening person
- homeothermy — The state or condition of being homeothermic.
- 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