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

  • epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
  • ethnographical — Ethnographic.
  • ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
  • ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
  • exchange force — a force between two elementary particles resulting from the exchange of a virtual particle
  • exhilaratingly — In a way that exhilarates.
  • farsightedness — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
  • fashionmongers — Plural form of fashionmonger.
  • feather-legged — cowardly.
  • featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
  • featherweights — Plural form of featherweight.
  • feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
  • fichtelgebirge — a mountain range in E central Germany, near the Czech border. Highest peak, Schneeberg, 3447 feet (1051 meters).
  • field strength — the intensity of an electromagnetic wave at any point in the area covered by a radio or television transmitter
  • fighter-bomber — an aircraft that combines the functions of a fighter and a bomber.
  • figure-hugging — Figure-hugging clothes fit very close to the body of the person who is wearing them. Figure-hugging is usually used to describe clothes worn by women.
  • finance charge — interest or a fee charged for borrowing money or buying on credit.
  • fishing permit — an official document which allows you to fish in a particular area of water
  • flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
  • flagship store — A flagship store is the most important store in a chain, often with the largest volume of sales, or the most up-to-date formats or layouts
  • flight feather — one of the large, stiff feathers of the wing and tail of a bird that are essential to flight.
  • flight officer — an officer of the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II, having a rank equivalent to that of a warrant officer junior grade.
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • floating heart — any of certain aquatic plants belonging to the genus Nymphoides, of the gentian family, especially N. aquatica, having floating, more or less heart-shaped leaves and a cluster of small, white, five-petaled flowers.
  • food-gathering — procuring food by hunting or fishing or the gathering of seeds, berries, or roots, rather than by the cultivation of plants or the domestication of animals; foraging.
  • for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
  • foreshortening — Fine Arts. to reduce or distort (parts of a represented object that are not parallel to the picture plane) in order to convey the illusion of three-dimensional space as perceived by the human eye: often done according to the rules of perspective.
  • forethoughtful — full of or having forethought; provident.
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • forthrightness — The characteristic or quality of being forthright.
  • fortysomething — A person whose age is between forty and forty-nine years, inclusive; someone in his or her forties.
  • framing chisel — a woodworking chisel for heavy work and deep cuts, often having a handle reinforced to withstand blows from a metal hammer head.
  • free of charge — having no cost
  • free-machining — (of certain metals) readily machinable at high speeds with low force.
  • freewheelingly — In a freewheeling manner; without constraint.
  • freight engine — a locomotive for pulling freight trains, designed for high drawbar pull rather than high speed.
  • french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
  • fringe theatre — theatrical performance that is unconventional or otherwise distinct from the mainstream
  • fringed orchis — any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip.
  • frozen yoghurt — a dessert made from sweetened yoghurt that has been frozen
  • galvanotherapy — treatment employing electric current.
  • gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
  • garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
  • garlic crusher — a kitchen implement used to crush cloves of garlic
  • garrison house — a style of early New England house in which the second floor projects beyond the first.
  • genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
  • geochronologic — Of or pertaining to geochronology.
  • geochronometry — the determination of the absolute age of earth materials, as by radiometric dating.
  • geodemographic — Of or pertaining to geography and demography.
  • geographically — of or relating to geography.
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