11-letter words containing s, t, a, n, u
- gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- gangbusting — the activity of a gangbuster
- gas turbine — a turbine utilizing the gaseous products of combustion.
- gesticulant — making or tending to make gestures or gesticulations: a gesticulant speaker.
- giant squid — any squid of the genus Architeuthis, inhabiting deep ocean bottoms and sometimes attaining an arm span of 65 feet (20 meters) or more.
- gigantesque — of a huge or gigantic size; of or suited to a giant.
- 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.
- glaucescent — becoming glaucous; somewhat glaucous.
- glutaminase — an enzyme used to treat cancer
- graduations — Plural form of graduation.
- 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.
- guaranteers — Plural form of guaranteer.
- gymnanthous — achlamydeous.
- hatefulness — arousing hate or deserving to be hated: the hateful oppression of dictators.
- haughtiness — disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.
- haute-saone — a department in E France. 2075 sq. mi. (5375 sq. km). Capital: Vesoul.
- headhunters — Plural form of headhunter.
- heptagynous — (of a flower) having seven pistils
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- house agent — a real-estate agent.
- house plant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- house-train — to housebreak.
- houseparent — one of a married couple responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc., sometimes acting solely as an advisor, but often serving as host or hostess, chaperon, housekeeper, etc.
- houseplants — Plural form of houseplant.
- hsuan t'ung — Pu-yi, Henry.
- hsuan tsung — a.d. 685–762, Chinese emperor of the Tang dynasty 712–756.
- illuminants — Plural form of illuminant.
- illuminates — to supply or brighten with light; light up.
- imputations — Plural form of imputation.
- in transitu — in transit; on the way.
- inaugurates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inaugurate.
- incapsulate — Alternative form of encapsulate.
- incubations — Plural form of incubation.
- inductances — Plural form of inductance.
- industrials — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- inexhausted — Not exhausted.
- inosculated — Simple past tense and past participle of inosculate.
- inosculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inosculate.
- insalubrity — unfavorable to health; unwholesome.
- inscrutable — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- inscrutably — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- insectarium — a place in which a collection of living insects is kept, as in a zoo.
- insinuating — tending to instill doubts, distrust, etc.; suggestive: an insinuating letter.
- insinuation — an indirect or covert suggestion or hint, especially of a derogatory nature: She made nasty insinuations about her rivals.
- insinuative — to suggest or hint slyly: He insinuated that they were lying.
- insinuatory — Insinuative.
- instinctual — of, relating to, or of the nature of instinct.
- insufflated — Simple past tense and past participle of insufflate.
- insufflator — to blow or breathe (something) in.
- insulations — Plural form of insulation.