12-letter words containing s, t, e, a, r, i
- frontiersman — a person, especially a man, who lives on the frontier, especially in sparsely settled regions.
- fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
- fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
- frying steak — a steak that is cooked by frying
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- gallivanters — Plural form of gallivanter.
- garnishments — Plural form of garnishment.
- gastarbeiter — guest worker.
- gastrectasia — (medicine) dilation of the stomach.
- gastrocnemii — Plural form of gastrocnemius.
- gastrodermis — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
- gastronomies — Plural form of gastronomy.
- gastrotomies — Plural form of gastrotomy.
- gatecrashing — Present participle of gatecrash.
- gazetteerish — in the style of a gazetteer
- generalities — Plural form of generality.
- generativist — a person who follows or promotes the theories of generative grammar.
- generatrices — Plural form of generatrix.
- geostrategic — Of, pertaining to, or using geostrategy.
- german sixth — (in musical harmony) an augmented sixth chord having a major third and a perfect fifth between the root and the augmented sixth
- germinations — Plural form of germination.
- gesticulator — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- gila monster — a large, venomous lizard, Heloderma suspectum, of the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico, covered with beadlike scales of yellow, orange, and black.
- graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
- grammaticise — to make grammatical
- grease paint — an oily mixture of melted tallow or grease and a pigment, used by actors, clowns, etc., for making up their faces.
- great plains — a semiarid region E of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. and Canada.
- great schism — a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378–1417, over papal succession, during which there were two, or sometimes three, claimants to the papal office.
- great spirit — the chief deity in the religion of many North American Indian tribes.
- grossularite — a mineral, calcium aluminum garnet, Ca 3 Al 2 Si 3 O 12 , occurring in gray-white to pinkish crystals.
- hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- harris tweed — a hand-woven tweed made only by residents in the Outer Hebrides from locally dyed and spun wool
- harvest mite — chigger (def 1).
- harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
- harvest time — season when crops are gathered
- headmistress — a woman in charge of a private school.
- hearing test — a test to establish whether someone's hearing is normal or whether they have suffered some degree of hearing loss
- heartstrings — (obsolete, anatomy) The tendons once thought to brace the heart. (15th-19th c.).
- hellgramites — Plural form of hellgramite.
- hemarthrosis — (pathology) bleeding in the joints.
- hemihydrates — Plural form of hemihydrate.
- hemiparasite — A plant that obtains or may obtain part of its food by parasitism, e.g., mistletoe, which also photosynthesizes.
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- heterauxesis — an unequal or asymmetrical growth of cells, parts of plants or animals
- heteroousian — a person who believes the Father and the Son to be unlike in substance or essence; an Arian (opposed to Homoousian).
- heteroplasia — the replacement of normal cells by abnormal cells, as in cancer.
- heterosocial — relating to or denoting mixed-sex social relationships
- heterotopias — Plural form of heterotopia.
- hibernations — Plural form of hibernation.
- hidradenitis — (medicine) inflammation of the sweat glands.