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

  • fingertip search — When the police carry out a fingertip search of a place, they examine it for evidence in a very detailed way.
  • fisherman's ring — the signet ring worn by the pope.
  • flamborough head — a chalk promontory in NE England, on the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire
  • flying phalanger — any of various small phalangers of Australia and New Guinea, having a parachutelike fold of skin on each side of the body to give gliding assistance in leaping.
  • foreign exchange — commercial paper drawn on a person or corporation in a foreign nation.
  • forked lightning — Forked lightning is lightning that divides into two or more parts near the ground.
  • forward exchange — a foreign bill purchased at a stipulated price and payable at a future date.
  • franking machine — a machine that franks letters
  • freeboard length — the length of a vessel, measured on the summer load line from the fore side of the stem to some part of the stern, usually the after side of the rudderpost.
  • freight terminal — (on a rail network) a place where freight is stored while awaiting onward transport
  • friedrich engels — Friedrich [free-drikh] /ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1820–95, German socialist in England: collaborated with Karl Marx in systematizing Marxism.
  • from the word go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • gabriel, richard — Richard Gabriel
  • gadsden purchase — a tract of 45,535 sq. mi. (117,935 sq. km), now contained in New Mexico and Arizona, purchased for $10,000,000 from Mexico in 1853, the treaty being negotiated by James Gadsden.
  • galenic pharmacy — the art or practice of preparing and dispensing galenicals.
  • garfield heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • gastroesophageal — Of or relating to the stomach and to the esophagus.
  • gender dysphoria — a psychological condition marked by significant emotional distress and impairment in life functioning, caused by a lack of congruence between gender identity and biological sex assigned at birth.
  • general hospital — A general hospital is a hospital that does not specialize in the treatment of particular illnesses or patients.
  • geochronological — Of or pertaining to geochronology.
  • geochronologists — Plural form of geochronologist.
  • geoffrey chaucer — Geoffrey, 1340?–1400, English poet.
  • geographic range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible to the eye at a given elevation, assuming that the weather is clear and that the light is sufficiently powerful to be visible from any point at which it appears above the horizon.
  • geomorphological — Of or pertaining to geomorphology.
  • geostrophic wind — a wind whose velocity and direction are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
  • geothermal power — power generated using steam produced by heat emanating from the molten core of the earth
  • german cockroach — a common yellowish-brown cockroach, Blatta germanica, brought into the U.S. from Europe.
  • gerontomorphosis — Biology. evolutionary specialization of a species to a degree that decreases its capability for further adaptation and eventually leads to its extinction.
  • get sth straight — If you get something straight, you make sure that you understand it properly or that someone else does.
  • give a hard time — a period of difficulties or hardship.
  • glory-of-the-sun — a bulbous, Chilean plant, Leucocoryne ixioides, of the amaryllis family, having fragrant, white or blue flowers.
  • glossopharyngeal — of or relating to the tongue and pharynx.
  • gnu archive site — (body)   The main GNU FTP archive is on gnu.org but copies ("mirrors") of some or all of the files there are also held on many other computers around the world. To avoid overloading gnu.org and the Internet you should FTP files from the machine closest to yours. Look for a directory like /pub/gnu, /mirrors/gnu, /systems/gnu or /archives/gnu.
  • go off the rails — If someone goes off the rails, they start to behave in a way that other people think is unacceptable or very strange, for example they start taking drugs or breaking the law.
  • go over the hill — a natural elevation of the earth's surface, smaller than a mountain.
  • go with the turf — to be an unavoidable part of a particular situation or process
  • gold star mother — an American woman whose son or daughter has died while serving in the United States Armed Forces
  • golden horseshoe — the urban and agricultural area surrounding Toronto.
  • golden parachute — an employment contract or agreement guaranteeing a key executive of a company substantial severance pay and other financial benefits in the event of job loss caused by the company's being sold or merged.
  • good housekeeper — a person who is an efficient and thrifty domestic manager
  • good-heartedness — the quality of being good-hearted
  • government house — the official residence of a colonial governor, as in a British Commonwealth country.
  • granted (that) … — even assuming that
  • grape phylloxera — See under phylloxera.
  • graphic designer — person: commercial artist
  • graphic language — For specifying graphic operations.
  • graphics adapter — graphics adaptor
  • grasp the nettle — If you grasp the nettle, you deal with a problem, or do something that is unpleasant, quickly and in a determined way.
  • gray nurse shark — a sand shark, Odontaspis arenarius, abundant in S African and Australian coastal waters and estuaries.
  • great blue heron — a large American heron, Ardea herodias, having bluish-gray plumage.
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