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11-letter words containing s, r, u

  • gas guzzler — an automobile that has low fuel efficiency, getting relatively few miles per gallon.
  • gas turbine — a turbine utilizing the gaseous products of combustion.
  • gas-guzzler — an automobile that has low fuel efficiency, getting relatively few miles per gallon.
  • gemmiferous — bearing buds or gemmae; gemmiparous.
  • gemmiparous — producing or reproducing by buds or gemmae.
  • george bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
  • ghostbuster — A person who claims to be able to banish ghosts and poltergeists.
  • glamorously — In a glamorous manner.
  • glamourless — Without glamour; unglamorous, mundane.
  • glamourpuss — a glamorous person, esp a woman
  • glasscutter — a small hand tool that is specially designed for cutting sheets of glass, having a cutting wheel of steel or tungsten carbide and notches for snapping the glass
  • glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
  • glumiferous — having glumes
  • goatsuckers — Plural form of goatsucker.
  • goes around — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • golf course — the ground or course over which golf is played. A standard full-scale golf course has 125 to 175 acres (51 to 71 hectares), usually with 18 holes varying from 100 to 650 yards (91 to 594 meters) in length from tee to cup.
  • gomme syrup — simple syrup.
  • gourmandise — unrestrained enjoyment of fine foods, wines, and the like.
  • gourmandism — a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess.
  • gourmet sex — lovemaking that is particularly passionate, enjoyable, and imaginative
  • gradualness — The condition of being gradual.
  • graduations — Plural form of graduation.
  • granduncles — Plural form of granduncle.
  • graniferous — bearing grain
  • granivorous — (of an animal, especially a bird) eating grain and seeds.
  • grape sugar — dextrose.
  • grapefruits — Plural form of grapefruit.
  • grass court — an outdoor tennis court having a grass surface.
  • grasscutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
  • gratuitious — Misspelling of gratuitous.
  • great runes — Uppercase-only text or display messages. Some archaic operating systems still emit these. See also runes, smash case, fold case. Decades ago, back in the days when it was the sole supplier of long-distance hardcopy transmittal devices, the Teletype Corporation was faced with a major design choice. To shorten code lengths and cut complexity in the printing mechanism, it had been decided that teletypes would use a monocase font, either ALL UPPER or all lower. The Question Of The Day was therefore, which one to choose. A study was conducted on readability under various conditions of bad ribbon, worn print hammers, etc. Lowercase won; it is less dense and has more distinctive letterforms, and is thus much easier to read both under ideal conditions and when the letters are mangled or partly obscured. The results were filtered up through management. The chairman of Teletype killed the proposal because it failed one incredibly important criterion: "It would be impossible to spell the name of the Deity correctly." In this way (or so, at least, hacker folklore has it) superstition triumphed over utility. Teletypes were the major input devices on most early computers, and terminal manufacturers looking for corners to cut naturally followed suit until well into the 1970s. Thus, that one bad call stuck us with Great Runes for thirty years.
  • greedy guts — a glutton
  • green stuff — paper money.
  • greenhouses — Plural form of greenhouse.
  • 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.
  • grossed out — without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like (opposed to net2. ): gross earnings; gross sales.
  • grotesquely — odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
  • grotesquery — grotesque character.
  • grouchiness — The characteristic or quality of being grouchy.
  • ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
  • ground-fish — bottom-fish.
  • groundburst — The explosion of a bomb dropped from the air when it hits the ground.
  • groundlings — Plural form of groundling.
  • groundshare — to share the facilities and running costs of a single stadium with another team
  • groundsheet — a waterproof sheet of plastic, canvas, or other durable material spread on the ground, as under a sleeping bag or in a tent, for protection against moisture.
  • groundsills — Plural form of groundsill.
  • groundspeed — the speed of an aircraft with reference to the ground.
  • groundstone — A simple neolithic stone tool made by grinding.
  • groundswell — a broad, deep swell or rolling of the sea, due to a distant storm or gale.
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