11-letter words containing s, r, u
- groundworks — Plural form of groundwork.
- group speed — the speed at which energy is propagated in a wave. This is the quantity determined when one measures the distance which the radiation travels in a given time. In a medium in which the speed increases with wavelength the group speed is less than the phase speed, and vice versa
- groupuscule — A political or religious splinter group.
- grouse moor — a moor where grouse live or are hunted
- grub street — a street in London, England: formerly inhabited by many impoverished minor writers and literary hacks; now called Milton Street.
- guaniferous — yielding guano
- guaranteers — Plural form of guaranteer.
- guard's van — The guard's van of a train is a small carriage or part of a carriage in which the guard travels.
- guardedness — The state or condition of being guarded.
- guardhouses — Plural form of guardhouse.
- guardswoman — A female guardsman.
- guardswomen — Plural form of guardswoman.
- guelderrose — snowball (sense 2)
- gulf crisis — the unstable period prior to the war of 1991 between US-led UN forces and Iraq
- gulf stream — a warm ocean current flowing N from the Gulf of Mexico, along the E coast of the U.S., to an area off the SE coast of Newfoundland, where it becomes the western terminus of the North Atlantic Current.
- gullywasher — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- gummiferous — producing gum
- gunslingers — Plural form of gunslinger.
- gustatorily — in a gustatory manner
- guttersnipe — a person belonging to or characteristic of the lowest social group in a city.
- guttiferous — relating to plants that produce gum or gum-like fluids
- gutturalism — The quality of being guttural.
- gypsiferous — containing gypsum.
- hadrosaurid — (zoology) Any of the family Hadrosauridae of duck-billed dinosaurs; a hadrosaur.
- hairbrushes — Plural form of hairbrush.
- haplogroups — Plural form of haplogroup.
- harbourless — Without a harbour.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- harmfulness — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.
- harquebuses — Plural form of harquebus.
- harrumphers — Plural form of harrumpher.
- haruspicate — of or relating to a haruspex
- hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
- hazardously — In a hazardous manner.
- headhunters — Plural form of headhunter.
- heartstruck — Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind.
- heat source — sth that generates warmth
- hederaceous — (rare) Of, pertaining to, or resembling ivy.
- helichrysum — any of the numerous composite plants of the genus Helichrysum, having alternate leaves and solitary or clustered flower heads, including the strawflower.
- hemipterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hemiptera, an order of insects having forewings that are thickened and leathery at the base and membranous at the apex, comprising the true bugs.
- heptamerous — consisting of or divided into seven parts.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- herbivorous — feeding on plants.
- hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
- hermoupolis — a port in Greece, capital of Cyclades department, on the E coast of Syros Island. Pop: (municipality): 13 496 (2001)
- heroin user — a person who regularly takes the drug heroin, who may or may not be addicted to it
- herpesvirus — a DNA-containing virus of the family Herpesviridae, certain members of which cause such diseases in humans as oral and genital herpes, infectious mononucleosis, chickenpox, and shingles.
- hertzsprung — Ejnar (ˈəɪnar). 1873–1967, Danish astronomer: he discovered the existence of giant and dwarf stars, originating one form of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
- hesperidium — the fruit of a citrus plant, as an orange.
- heuristical — Of or pertaining to heuristics.