11-letter words containing y, e, s, t, r
- erythropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear red
- erythrosine — a fluorone, tetraiodo-fluorescein, which is used as a red food colouring (E127) and in biological staining
- escharotomy — A surgical procedure in which an incision is made through eschar to expose the fatty tissue below.
- escort duty — a military duty in which one or more servicemen accompany a person, group of people, or vehicle, for protection, guidance, restraint, or as a mark of honour
- eurhythmics — Alternative spelling of eurythmics.
- eurhythmist — a person who teaches or practises eurhythmics
- eurypterids — Plural form of eurypterid.
- expiscatory — acting to expiscate; tending to expiscate
- extorsively — in an extorsive manner
- fairy stone — a fossil or other oddly shaped stone or crystal.
- farm system — any small-scale or localized network or industry that provides experience and exposure for beginners, similar to that of a baseball farm.
- flusteredly — In a flustered manner.
- fly swatter — a device for killing flies, mosquitoes, and other insects, usually a square sheet of wire mesh attached to a long handle.
- flycatchers — Plural form of flycatcher.
- forty-seven — a cardinal number, 40 plus 7.
- foster city — a city in W California.
- fosteringly — In a way that fosters or encourages.
- frame story — a secondary story or stories embedded in the main story.
- fray bentos — a port in W Uruguay, on the River Uruguay: noted for meat-packing. Pop: 23 122 (2004 est)
- free safety — a member of a secondary, usually the deepest-playing defender, with no specific assignment at the snap of the ball, but often covering the area of the field across from the weak side of the opponent's offensive line against runs and long pass plays.
- freestyling — the practice of improvising scenes when making a film or performing a play
- frontlessly — in a frontless or shameless manner
- fruitlessly — In a fruitless manner.
- gastrectomy — partial or total excision of the stomach.
- geostrategy — The strategic use of geopolitics.
- 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.
- 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
- historyless — Lacking history.
- 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.
- hydrolysate — any compound formed by hydrolysis.
- hydrometers — Plural form of hydrometer.
- hydrophytes — Plural form of hydrophyte.
- hygrometers — Plural form of hygrometer.
- hygrophytes — Plural form of hygrophyte.
- 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.