11-letter words containing s, u, r, n
- furnishings — furnishings. furniture, carpeting, etc., for a house or room. articles or accessories of dress: men's furnishings.
- furnishment — (obsolete) The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture.
- furtiveness — taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance.
- furunculous — Furuncular.
- fuss around — to engage in idle, aimless, or annoying activity
- fustilirian — a person who uses a cudgel rather than a sword; hence, a lowly person or a commoner (from Henry IV by William Shakespeare)
- gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- gas furnace — a furnace using gas as a fuel.
- gas turbine — a turbine utilizing the gaseous products of combustion.
- 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.
- goes around — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- gourmandise — unrestrained enjoyment of fine foods, wines, and the like.
- gourmandism — a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- groundworks — Plural form of groundwork.
- 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.
- guardswoman — A female guardsman.
- guardswomen — Plural form of guardswoman.
- gunslingers — Plural form of gunslinger.
- guttersnipe — a person belonging to or characteristic of the lowest social group in a city.
- harmfulness — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.
- headhunters — Plural form of headhunter.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- heroin user — a person who regularly takes the drug heroin, who may or may not be addicted to it
- hertzsprung — Ejnar (ˈəɪnar). 1873–1967, Danish astronomer: he discovered the existence of giant and dwarf stars, originating one form of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
- high-strung — at great tension; highly excitable or nervous; edgy: high-strung nerves; a high-strung person.
- hirsuteness — The characteristic of being hirsute; hairiness.