11-letter words containing g, e, t, h, r
- entrenching — Present participle of entrench.
- epigraphist — A person who studies epigraphy (inscriptions).
- ergatomorph — an ergatoid ant
- estranghelo — an archaic, cursive form of the Syriac alphabet
- ethnography — The scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures.
- far-sighted — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- farthingale — a hoop skirt or framework for expanding a woman's skirt, worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- fear-naught — a stout woolen cloth for overcoats.
- featheredge — an edge that thins out like a feather.
- feedthrough — a connector used to pass a conductor through a circuit board or enclosure.
- fifth grade — the fifth year of school, when children are ten or eleven years old
- fighter jet — a jet fighter, or fighter plane propelled by a jet engine
- fire blight — a disease of pears, apples, quinces, etc., characterized by blossom, twig, and fruit blight and stem cankers, caused by a bacterium, Erwinia amylovora.
- firefighter — a person who fights destructive fires.
- firelighter — Small block of flammable substance, typically sawdust and wax combined, used to light fires.
- flight crew — the crew responsible for an aircraft during a flight
- foregathers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foregather.
- foresighted — Having or using foresight.
- forethought — thoughtful provision beforehand; provident care; prudence.
- forgathered — Simple past tense and past participle of forgather.
- forty-eight — a cardinal number, 40 plus 8.
- fothergilla — any of the deciduous shrub species in the witch-hazel family
- free flight — unassisted or unconstrained flight, as the flight of a rocket or missile without guidance or after fuel exhaustion or motor cutoff.
- free weight — a weight used for weightlifting, as a dumbbell, whose motion is not constrained by external apparatus.
- freethought — Alternative spelling of free thought.
- freight car — any car for carrying freight.
- freight ton — ton1 (def 2).
- freight-out — Freight-out is the cost of delivering finished goods to a customer.
- freight-ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- frighteners — Plural form of frightener.
- frightening — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- 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.