11-letter words containing e, t, h, r
- front bench — (used with a singular verb) (in the House of Commons) either of two seats near the Speaker, on which the leaders of the major parties sit.
- frost heave — an uplift in soil caused by the freezing of internal moisture.
- ftp archive — archive site
- furnishment — (obsolete) The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture.
- furtherance — the act of furthering; promotion; advancement.
- furtherment — The act or process of furthering; furtherance.
- furthermore — moreover; besides; in addition: Furthermore, he left orders not to be disturbed.
- furthermost — most distant: Their house is furthermost on the right.
- furthersome — tending to further or promote; helpful
- game theory — a mathematical theory that deals with strategies for maximizing gains and minimizing losses within prescribed constraints, as the rules of a card game: widely applied in the solution of various decision-making problems, as those of military strategy and business policy.
- gametophore — a part or structure bearing gametangia.
- gangsterish — (informal) Gangsterlike.
- garden path — paved walkway
- garden-path — noting or pertaining to a sentence that is easily parsed incorrectly because its beginning suggests it has an interpretation that it clearly does not have.
- garnishment — Law. a warning, served on a third party to hold, subject to the court's direction, money or property belonging to a debtor who is being sued by a creditor. a summons to a third party to appear in litigation pending between a creditor and debtor.
- gas lighter — device: produces flame
- gate theory — a theory proposing that neural stimulation beyond a certain threshold level, as by application of an electric current, can overwhelm the ability of the nerve center to sense pain.
- gatecrashed — Simple past tense and past participle of gatecrash.
- gatecrasher — a person who attends or enters a social function without an invitation, a theater without a ticket, etc.
- gay-feather — any of several composite plants of the genus Liatris, especially L. spicata or L. scariosa, having hairy leaves and long clusters of purplish flowers.
- geoisotherm — isogeotherm.
- geostrophic — of or relating to the balance between the Coriolis force and the horizontal pressure force in the atmosphere.
- germ theory — Pathology. the theory that infectious diseases are due to the agency of germs or microorganisms.
- gerontophil — experiencing sexual attraction to old people
- get nowhere — make no progress
- get the air — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- get through — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- ghost-write — If a book or other piece of writing is ghost-written, it is written by a writer for another person, for example a politician or sportsman, who then publishes it as his or her own work.
- ghostbuster — A person who claims to be able to banish ghosts and poltergeists.
- ghostwriter — A person whose job it is to write material for someone else who is the named author.
- gnatcatcher — any tiny insect-eating, New World warbler of the genus Polioptila, having a long, mobile tail and a slender bill.
- go to earth — to go into hiding
- go together — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- goddaughter — a female godchild.
- goldthreads — Plural form of goldthread.
- gomphothere — Any of the extinct proboscideans of the family Gomphotheriidae, that lived in North America and Eurasia during the Miocene and Pliocene (12\u20141.6 million years ago), and latterly also in South America (around 3 million to 9100 years ago).
- goodhearted — Kind, generous and altruistic.
- grade sheet — a piece of paper on which a student's grades are recorded
- grand theft — stealing large amount
- grandfather — the father of one's father or mother.
- grandmother — the mother of one's father or mother.
- grangemouth — a port in Scotland, in Falkirk council area: now Scotland's second port, with oil refineries, shipyards, and chemical industries. Pop: 17 771 (2001)
- graphitized — (chemistry, of carbon) Converted to graphite.
- great wheel — the wheel immediately driven by the power source.
- green earth — a pigment used in painting consisting mainly of iron silicate, characterized chiefly by its variable grayish-green hue, lack of tinting strength, and permanence.
- green light — traffic signal: go
- green thumb — an exceptional aptitude for gardening or for growing plants successfully: Houseplants provide much pleasure for the city dweller with a green thumb.
- green-light — to give permission to proceed; authorize: The renovation project was green-lighted by the board of directors.
- greenhearts — Plural form of greenheart.
- greenschist — schist colored green by an abundance of chlorite, epidote, or actinolite.