11-letter words containing s, e, r, o, a
- 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.
- gravestones — Plural form of gravestone.
- grease wool — shorn fleece before it has been cleaned
- greaseproof — Resistant to grease.
- greasewoods — Plural form of greasewood.
- greasy pole — a pole covered with grease to make it slippery and difficult to climb, often used as entertainment
- greasy wool — untreated wool, still retaining the lanolin, which is used for waterproof clothing
- great gross — a unit of quantity equivalent to 12 gross. Abbreviation: GGR.
- groundshare — to share the facilities and running costs of a single stadium with another team
- guaniferous — yielding guano
- guardhouses — Plural form of guardhouse.
- guardswomen — Plural form of guardswoman.
- hair stroke — a fine line in writing or printing.
- hammerlocks — Plural form of hammerlock.
- hammerstone — an ancient stone tool used as a hammer, as for chipping flint, processing food, or breaking up bones.
- handyperson — a person who is practiced at doing maintenance work.
- harbor seal — a small, spotted seal, Phoca vitulina, of the Atlantic coasts of North America and Europe and the Pacific coast of northern North America.
- harbourless — Without a harbour.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard sector — (storage) An archaic floppy disk format employing multiple synchronisation holes in the media to define the sectors.
- hare's-foot — a leguminous annual plant, Trifolium arvense, that grows on sandy soils in Europe and NW Asia and has downy heads of white or pink flowers
- harmonizers — Plural form of harmonizer.
- hatemongers — Plural form of hatemonger.
- hearthstone — a stone forming a hearth.
- heartthrobs — Plural form of heartthrob.
- heat source — sth that generates warmth
- heat stroke — a disturbance of the temperature-regulating mechanisms of the body caused by overexposure to excessive heat, resulting in fever, hot and dry skin, and rapid pulse, sometimes progressing to delirium and coma.
- hederaceous — (rare) Of, pertaining to, or resembling ivy.
- heliographs — Plural form of heliograph.
- hemorrhages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hemorrhage.
- heptamerous — consisting of or divided into seven parts.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
- heteroatoms — Plural form of heteroatom.
- heteroplasm — (pathology) Tissue growing in a part of the body where it does not normally occur.
- 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
- heterotaxis — abnormal or irregular arrangement, as of parts of the body, geological strata, etc.
- hexahedrons — Plural form of hexahedron.
- hibernators — Plural form of hibernator.
- hierophants — Plural form of hierophant.
- hippocrates — ("Father of Medicine") c460–c377 b.c, Greek physician.
- historiated — (especially of initial letters on an illuminated manuscript) decorated with animals, flowers, or other designs that have a narrative or symbolic purpose.
- hoary cress — a perennial Mediterranean plant, Cardaria (or Lepidium) draba, with small white flowers: a widespread troublesome weed: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- holophrases — a word functioning as a phrase or sentence, as the imperative Go!
- home waters — territorial waters
- homesteader — the owner or holder of a homestead.
- 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.
- hoppergrass — grasshopper (def 1).