11-letter words containing r, i, s, n
- grandiosely — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grandiosity — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grandnieces — Plural form of grandniece.
- graniferous — bearing grain
- granivorous — (of an animal, especially a bird) eating grain and seeds.
- graphicness — The quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness.
- grass finch — any of several Australian weaverbirds, especially of the genus Poephila.
- grass snipe — the pectoral sandpiper.
- gravenstein — a variety of large, yellow apple with red streaks
- 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).
- green osier — a dogwood tree, Cornus alternifolia, of the eastern U.S., having clusters of small white flowers and dark-blue fruit.
- greenbriers — Plural form of greenbrier.
- greenschist — schist colored green by an abundance of chlorite, epidote, or actinolite.
- grind house — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- grind-house — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- grindstones — Plural form of grindstone.
- gristliness — The quality or state of being gristly.
- grouchiness — The characteristic or quality of being grouchy.
- ground-fish — bottom-fish.
- groundlings — Plural form of groundling.
- groundsills — Plural form of groundsill.
- growthiness — the quality of being growthy
- guaniferous — yielding guano
- gunslingers — Plural form of gunslinger.
- guttersnipe — a person belonging to or characteristic of the lowest social group in a city.
- gymnasiarch — (in ancient Greece) a magistrate who superintended the gymnasia and public games in certain cities.
- hairsprings — Plural form of hairspring.
- hairstyling — a person who designs and arranges hair styles.
- halsingborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, opposite Helsingör.
- hammerstein — Oscar, 1847?–1919, U.S. theatrical manager, born in Germany.
- hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- handicrafts — Plural form of handicraft.
- handsprings — Plural form of handspring.
- harassingly — in a harassing manner
- hardscaping — Hardscape.
- harmonicist — Someone who plays the harmonica.
- harmonising — Present participle of harmonise.
- harmonistic — pertaining to a harmonist or harmony.
- harmonizers — Plural form of harmonizer.
- hear things — a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
- heartstring — Singular of heartstrings.
- helsingborg — a port in SW Sweden, on the Sound opposite Helsingør, Denmark: changed hands several times between Denmark and Sweden, finally becoming Swedish in 1710; shipbuilding. Pop: 121 097 (2004 est)
- hemipterans — Plural form of hemipteran.
- hemosiderin — a yellowish-brown protein containing iron, derived chiefly from hemoglobin and found in body tissue and phagocytes, especially as the result of disorders in iron metabolism and the breakdown of red blood cells.
- heroin user — a person who regularly takes the drug heroin, who may or may not be addicted to it
- hesperornis — a toothed aquatic bird of the extinct genus Hesperornis, fossils of which are found in rocks of Cretaceous age in Kansas, having the rear legs modified for swimming and reaching a length of more than 4 feet (1.2 meters).
- 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.
- hibernicism — an idiom or characteristic peculiar to Irish English or to the Irish.