11-letter words containing s, t, r, a, g
- greasepaint — an oily mixture of melted tallow or grease and a pigment, used by actors, clowns, etc., for making up their faces.
- great basin — a region in the Western U.S. that has no drainage to the ocean: includes most of Nevada and parts of Utah, California, Oregon, and Idaho. 210,000 sq. mi. (544,000 sq. km).
- great falls — a city in central Montana, on the Missouri River.
- great gross — a unit of quantity equivalent to 12 gross. Abbreviation: GGR.
- great lakes — group of lakes in North America
- 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.
- great satan — any force, person, organization, or country that is regarded as evil, used esp of the United States by radical Islamists
- green stamp — Citizens Band Radio Slang. a speeding ticket. Usually, Green Stamps. money; currency.
- greenhearts — Plural form of greenheart.
- groatsworth — the amount that is, or may be, bought or sold for a groat
- guaranteers — Plural form of guaranteer.
- 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.
- gustatorily — in a gustatory manner
- gutturalism — The quality of being guttural.
- gyrostatics — the science that deals with the laws of rotating bodies.
- hairstyling — a person who designs and arranges hair styles.
- hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- hatemongers — Plural form of hatemonger.
- hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
- hear things — a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
- heartstring — Singular of heartstrings.
- heath grass — a European grass, Sieglingia decumbens, growing in spongy, wet, cold soils.
- histography — a treatise on or description of organic tissues.
- hucksterage — the business of a huckster; peddling
- hypergelast — Someone who laughs excessively.
- hypogastric — of, relating to, or situated in the hypogastrium.
- ignorantest — (nonstandard) Superlative form of ignorant.
- ignorantism — The support or promotion of ignorance.
- imagesetter — a printer or typesetting machine for producing professional-quality text with extremely high resolution.
- impregnates — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
- inaugurates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inaugurate.
- ingratiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingratiate.
- instigators — Plural form of instigator.
- instreaming — A flowing in; influx.
- integralism — the belief that one's religious convictions should dictate one's political and social actions.
- integrators — Plural form of integrator.
- intergrades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intergrade.
- invigorates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of invigorate.
- irrigations — Plural form of irrigation.
- isogradient — a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having the same horizontal gradient of a meteorological quantity, as temperature, pressure, or the like.
- jargonistic — the language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group: medical jargon.
- jiggermasts — Plural form of jiggermast.
- juggernauts — Plural form of juggernaut.
- knotgrasses — Plural form of knotgrass.
- laser light — light which is generated by a laser
- laser sight — a device on a firearm that uses a laser to pinpoint impact.
- latchstring — a string passed through a hole in a door, for raising the latch from the outside.
- legislators — Plural form of legislator.
- legislatrix — a woman who is a member of a legislature.
- legislature — a deliberative body of persons, usually elective, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state; the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government.