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14-letter words containing g, o, h

  • fencing school — an academy or school where fencing was taught by fencing masters
  • fighter-bomber — an aircraft that combines the functions of a fighter and a bomber.
  • fighting words — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
  • finished goods — Finished goods are goods that have completed the manufacturing process, but have not yet been sold.
  • fishing ground — a part of a body of water where the fishing is usually good.
  • 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
  • flashing point — flash point (def 1).
  • flight control — the direction of airplane movements, especially takeoffs and landings, by messages from the ground.
  • 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.
  • focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
  • follow through — the act of following.
  • follow-through — the completion of a motion, as in the stroke of a tennis racket.
  • 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.
  • free of charge — having no cost
  • 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.
  • 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
  • funnily enough — You use funnily enough to indicate that, although something is surprising, it is true or really happened.
  • g-strophanthin — ouabain.
  • galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
  • galeopithecine — of, relating to, or resembling the flying lemur (Galeopithecus)
  • galeopithecoid — of or resembling a flying lemur
  • gallows humour — sinister and ironic humour
  • galvanotherapy — treatment employing electric current.
  • gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
  • game of chance — a game in which the outcome is determined by chance rather than by the skill of its players, as roulette.
  • game show host — a broadcaster who reads the questions or conducts a game show
  • garda síochána — the police force of the Republic of Ireland
  • garrison house — a style of early New England house in which the second floor projects beyond the first.
  • genethlialogic — relating to the science of casting horoscopes
  • 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.
  • geohydrologist — a person who studies geohydrology
  • geomorphogenic — relating to geomorphogeny
  • george hw bushBarbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
  • geosynchronous — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
  • geothermometer — a thermometer for measuring temperatures below the surface of the earth
  • germanomethane — (chemistry) germanium tetrahydride.
  • gerontomorphic — relating to mature masculine characteristics
  • get hold of sb — If you get hold of someone, you manage to contact them.
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