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13-letter words containing g, e, h, l

  • global search — a word-processing operation in which a complete computer file or set of files is searched for every occurrence of a particular word or other sequence of characters
  • globe theatre — a theater on the south bank of the Thames in London, 1599–1613: many of Shakespeare's plays were first produced here.
  • globe thistle — any of various Old World, thistlelike, composite plants of the genus Echinops, having dense heads of tubular blue or white flowers.
  • glossographer — a glossator.
  • glove leather — a soft, smooth, pliable, stretchable leather.
  • glucochlorose — chloralose.
  • golan heights — a range of hills in the Middle East, possession of which is disputed between Israel and Syria: under Syrian control until 1967 when they were stormed by Israeli forces; Jewish settlements have since been established. Highest peak: 2224 m (7297 ft)
  • gold chloride — a yellow to red, water-soluble compound, AuCl 3 , used chiefly in photography, gilding ceramic ware and glass, and in the manufacture of purple of Cassius.
  • golden shiner — a small, silvery freshwater minnow, Notemigonus crysoleucas, native to eastern North America and introduced into western North America: often used as live bait in sport fishing.
  • golden shower — a tree, Cassia fistula, of the legume family, native to India, having long, drooping clusters of yellow flowers.
  • goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
  • goodheartedly — In a goodhearted manner.
  • goodhumoredly — In a good-humored manner.
  • googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
  • gopher client — (networking)   A program which runs on your local computer and provides a user interface to the Gopher protocol and to gopher servers. Web browsers can act as Gopher clients and simple Gopher-only clients are available for ordinary terminals, the X Window System, GNU Emacs, and other systems.
  • grandchildren — a child of one's son or daughter.
  • grandfatherly — of or characteristic of a grandfather.
  • grandmotherly — of or characteristic of a grandmother.
  • graph plotter — plotter
  • graphemically — In terms of or by means of graphemes.
  • graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
  • graphitizable — (chemistry, of carbon) Able to be converted to graphite.
  • grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
  • green channel — the route followed in passing through customs in an airport, etc by passengers claiming to have no dutiable goods to declare
  • gresham's law — the tendency of the inferior of two forms of currency to circulate more freely than, or to the exclusion of, the superior, because of the hoarding of the latter.
  • h and l hinge — a surface-mounted hinge that when applied resembles H and L combined.
  • haematologist — A scientist, usually a medical doctor, who specializes in haematology.
  • half-digested — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
  • half-integral — noting or pertaining to a fractional number obtained by dividing an odd integer by two, as 1/2.
  • hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
  • hand in glove — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • hand-in-glove — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • hanging stile — the stile of a door, shutter, etc., by which it is hung.
  • hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
  • harlequin bug — a black stink bug, Murgantia histrionica, having red and yellow markings, that feeds on cabbages and other cruciferous plants.
  • health-giving — conducive to health; salutary
  • heating plant — a building or facility containing a boiler or furnace that provides heat to a building or a number of buildings
  • heave the log — to determine a ship's speed with such a device
  • heavy lifting — hard work: A team of researchers did the heavy lifting for the author.
  • heilong jiang — Amur.
  • heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
  • heliographing — Present participle of heliograph.
  • hellgrammites — Plural form of hellgrammite (Alternative spelling of hellgramites).
  • helminthology — the scientific study of worms, especially of parasitic worms.
  • hemagglutinin — A substance, such as a viral protein, that causes hemagglutination.
  • hematological — Hematologic.
  • hematologists — Plural form of hematologist.
  • heortological — of or relating to heortology
  • hepatojugular — (medicine) Relating to the liver and the jugular vein.
  • heresiologist — a person who studies or writes about heresies.
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