11-letter words containing u, r, s, a
- gas-guzzler — an automobile that has low fuel efficiency, getting relatively few miles per gallon.
- gemmiparous — producing or reproducing by buds or gemmae.
- glamorously — In a glamorous manner.
- glamourless — Without glamour; unglamorous, mundane.
- glamourpuss — a glamorous person, esp a woman
- glasscutter — a small hand tool that is specially designed for cutting sheets of glass, having a cutting wheel of steel or tungsten carbide and notches for snapping the glass
- 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.
- goatsuckers — Plural form of goatsucker.
- 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.
- grape sugar — dextrose.
- grapefruits — Plural form of grapefruit.
- grass court — an outdoor tennis court having a grass surface.
- grasscutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
- gratuitious — Misspelling of gratuitous.
- 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.
- ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
- groundshare — to share the facilities and running costs of a single stadium with another team
- 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.
- guardhouses — Plural form of guardhouse.
- guardswoman — A female guardsman.
- guardswomen — Plural form of guardswoman.
- 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.
- gullywasher — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- gustatorily — in a gustatory manner
- gutturalism — The quality of being guttural.
- hadrosaurid — (zoology) Any of the family Hadrosauridae of duck-billed dinosaurs; a hadrosaur.
- hairbrushes — Plural form of hairbrush.
- haplogroups — Plural form of haplogroup.
- harbourless — Without a harbour.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- harmfulness — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.
- harquebuses — Plural form of harquebus.
- harrumphers — Plural form of harrumpher.
- haruspicate — of or relating to a haruspex
- hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
- hazardously — In a hazardous manner.
- headhunters — Plural form of headhunter.
- heartstruck — Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind.
- heat source — sth that generates warmth
- hederaceous — (rare) Of, pertaining to, or resembling ivy.