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11-letter words containing u, t, e, r

  • grapefruits — Plural form of grapefruit.
  • grapefruity — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
  • grasscutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
  • gray mullet — mullet1 (def 1).
  • great mogul — the emperor of the former Mogul Empire in India founded in 1526 by Baber.
  • 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-uncle — a granduncle.
  • greedy guts — a glutton
  • green audit — the process of assessing the environmental impact of an organization, process, project, product, etc.: A green audit of your home can reveal ways in which you can reduce energy consumption.
  • green stuff — paper money.
  • green thumb — an exceptional aptitude for gardening or for growing plants successfully: Houseplants provide much pleasure for the city dweller with a green thumb.
  • grey mullet — any teleost food fish of the family Mugilidae, mostly occurring in coastal regions, having a spindle-shaped body and a broad fleshy mouth
  • grossed out — without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like (opposed to net2. ): gross earnings; gross sales.
  • grotesquely — odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
  • grotesquery — grotesque character.
  • ground rent — the rent at which land is let to a tenant either for a long term or perpetually.
  • 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.
  • groundstone — A simple neolithic stone tool made by grinding.
  • groundwater — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.
  • grub street — a street in London, England: formerly inhabited by many impoverished minor writers and literary hacks; now called Milton Street.
  • guaranteers — Plural form of guaranteer.
  • gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
  • guide right — a command to a marching formation to align itself with a guide marching at the right side of the formation.
  • guided tour — visit with commentary
  • guiltridden — Alternative spelling of guilt-ridden.
  • 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.
  • gun culture — the attitudes, feelings, values, and behaviour of a society, or any social group, in which guns are used
  • gutter ball — a bowling ball that is rolled into one of the gutters and does not hit any pins.
  • gutterblood — a low person of inferior breeding
  • guttersnipe — a person belonging to or characteristic of the lowest social group in a city.
  • guttiferous — relating to plants that produce gum or gum-like fluids
  • gutturalize — to speak or pronounce (something) in a guttural manner.
  • half-hunter — a watch with a hinged lid in which a small circular opening or crystal allows the approximate time to be read
  • hardecanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
  • hardicanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
  • hardmouthed — of or relating to a horse not sensitive to the pressure of a bit.
  • haruspicate — of or relating to a haruspex
  • hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
  • haute-loire — a department in central France. 1931 sq. mi. (5000 sq. km). Capital: Le Puy.
  • haute-marne — a department in E France. 2416 sq. mi. (6255 sq. km). Capital: Chaumont.
  • head-hunter — a person who engages in headhunting.
  • headhunters — Plural form of headhunter.
  • headquarter — to situate in headquarters.
  • heartstruck — Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind.
  • heat source — sth that generates warmth
  • heater plug — one of usually four plugs fitted to the cylinder block of a diesel engine that warms the engine chamber to facilitate starting in cold weather
  • heliculture — the science or occupation of raising snails for food.
  • hemipterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hemiptera, an order of insects having forewings that are thickened and leathery at the base and membranous at the apex, comprising the true bugs.
  • heptamerous — consisting of or divided into seven parts.
  • heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
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