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14-letter words containing e, r, g, o, s, h

  • fortysomething — A person whose age is between forty and forty-nine years, inclusive; someone in his or her forties.
  • fringed orchis — any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip.
  • garrison house — a style of early New England house in which the second floor projects beyond the first.
  • geohydrologist — a person who studies geohydrology
  • george hw bushBarbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
  • geosynchronous — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
  • get rid of sth — When you get rid of something that you do not want or do not like, you take action so that you no longer have it or suffer from it.
  • ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
  • ghost prisoner — a prisoner, esp one held in US military captivity, whose detention is not publicly acknowledged
  • glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
  • go pear-shaped — If a situation goes pear-shaped, bad things start happening.
  • golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
  • grade-schooler — a pupil in a grade school.
  • greenhouse gas — any of the gases whose absorption of solar radiation is responsible for the greenhouse effect, including carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, and the fluorocarbons.
  • guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
  • gymslip mother — a girl of school age who has become a mother
  • gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
  • half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • headstrongness — The property of being headstrong, stubbornness.
  • healing powers — beneficial qualities
  • heart-stopping — A heart-stopping moment is one that makes you anxious or frightened because it seems that something bad is likely to happen.
  • heresiographer — a person who writes about heresy
  • herpetologists — Plural form of herpetologist.
  • heterographies — Plural form of heterography.
  • heterologously — In a heterologous manner.
  • heterozygosity — having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic.
  • honours degree — a degree at honours level
  • hooker's green — a medium green to strong yellowish green.
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • housing market — property trade
  • hydrogenolysis — decomposition of a compound resulting from its interaction with hydrogen.
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hyperosteogeny — excessive bone development.
  • legislatorship — The office or position of a legislator.
  • lexicographers — Plural form of lexicographer.
  • lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
  • light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
  • longshorewoman — a woman employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
  • lopping shears — long-handled pruning shears.
  • magnetospheres — Plural form of magnetosphere.
  • magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
  • megasporophyll — a sporophyll producing megasporangia only.
  • metamorphosing — to change the form or nature of; transform.
  • middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
  • modern english — the English language since c1475.
  • mother goddess — Kālī.
  • myrmecophagous — Pertaining to the anteater.
  • nasopharyngeal — the part of the pharynx behind and above the soft palate, directly continuous with the nasal passages. Compare oropharynx (def 2).
  • neighborliness — having or showing qualities befitting a neighbor; friendly.
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