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11-letter words containing s, y, r, t

  • 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.
  • grandiosity — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
  • grass style — a style of Japanese calligraphy and sumi-e painting, characterized chiefly by free or loose brush strokes.
  • greedy guts — a glutton
  • green bytes — (jargon)   (Or "green words") Meta-information embedded in a file, such as the length of the file or its name; as opposed to keeping such information in a separate description file or record. By extension, the non-data bits in any self-describing format. "A GIF file contains, among other things, green bytes describing the packing method for the image". At a meeting of the SHARE Systems Division, November 22, 1964, in Washington, DC, George Mealy of IBM described the new block tape format for FORTRAN in which unformatted binary records had a Control Word. George used green chalk to describe it. No one liked the contents of the Green Word (not information, wrong location, etc.) so Conrad Weisert and Channing Jackson made badges saying "Stamp out Green Words". This was the first computer badge. Compare out-of-band, zigamorph, fence.
  • grotesquely — odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
  • grotesquery — grotesque character.
  • gustatorily — in a gustatory manner
  • gyrostatics — the science that deals with the laws of rotating bodies.
  • hairstyling — a person who designs and arranges hair styles.
  • hairstylist — A person who cuts and styles people's hair professionally.
  • hard by sth — If one thing is hard by another, it is very close to it.
  • harvest fly — cicada
  • heartlessly — unfeeling; unkind; unsympathetic; harsh; cruel: heartless words; a heartless ruler.
  • heterolysis — The dissolution of cells by lysins or enzymes from different species.
  • heterospory — the production of both microspores and megaspores.
  • heterostyly — the condition in certain plants, such as primroses, of having styles of different lengths, each type of style in flowers on different plants, which promotes cross-pollination
  • histography — a treatise on or description of organic tissues.
  • historicity — historical authenticity.
  • historyless — Lacking history.
  • histotrophy — A form of matrotrophy exhibited by some live-bearing sharks and rays, in which the developing embryo receives additional nutrition from its mother in the form of uterine secretions called histotroph.
  • holy spirit — the spirit of God.
  • honesty bar — an unattended area in a hotel, resort, etc, where patrons may serve themselves drinks and are expected to leave money to pay for them
  • honeyeaters — Plural form of honeyeater.
  • house party — the guests at such an affair or party: The house party goes sailing today.
  • hydrologist — the science dealing with the occurrence, circulation, distribution, and properties of the waters of the earth and its atmosphere.
  • hydrolysate — any compound formed by hydrolysis.
  • hydrometers — Plural form of hydrometer.
  • hydrophytes — Plural form of hydrophyte.
  • hydrostatic — of or relating to hydrostatics.
  • hygrometers — Plural form of hygrometer.
  • hygrophytes — Plural form of hygrophyte.
  • hyoplastral — of or relating to hyoplastra
  • hyperbolist — One who uses hyperbole; an exaggerator.
  • hypergelast — Someone who laughs excessively.
  • hypermeters — Plural form of hypermeter.
  • hyperscript — Informix. The object-based programming language for Wingz, used for creating charts, graphs, graphics, and customised data entry.
  • hyperstatic — redundant (def 5b).
  • hypersthene — a dark iron magnesium silicate, an orthorhombic pyroxene containing more than 14 percent ferrous oxide.
  • hyperstress — extreme stress or anxiety
  • hyperstrict — A function which is hyperstrict in some argument will fully evaluate that argument. To fully evaluate an object, evaluate it to WHNF and if it is a constructed data object (e.g. a list or tuple) then fully evaluate every component and so on recursively. Thus a hyperstrict function will fail to terminate if its argument or any component or sub-component of its argument fails to terminate (i.e. if its argument is not "total").
  • hypocenters — Plural form of hypocenter.
  • hypocretins — Plural form of hypocretin.
  • hypogastric — of, relating to, or situated in the hypogastrium.
  • hyponitrous — of or derived from hyponitrous acid.
  • hypostrophe — the achievement of a patient turning himself or herself over
  • hypsometers — Plural form of hypsometer.
  • hypsometric — Of or relating to the use of the hypsometer; hypsographic.
  • hysteresial — relating to the retardation of an effect following upon its cause
  • hysterology — (obsolete) A scientific study, or treatise on the uterus.
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