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13-letter words containing g, o, r, h, e, n

  • opening hours — Opening hours are the times during which a shop, bank, library, or bar is open for business.
  • orange roughy — a marine food fish, Hoplosthenus atlanticus, of S Pacific waters
  • orange squash — an orange-flavoured drink made from fruit juice, sugar, and water
  • orchestrating — Present participle of orchestrate.
  • organ whistle — a steam or air whistle in which the jet is forced up against the thin edge of a pipe closed at the top.
  • organotherapy — the branch of therapeutics that deals with the use of remedies prepared from the organs of animals, as from the thyroid gland, the pancreas, or the suprarenal bodies.
  • oropharyngeal — the part of the pharynx between the soft palate and the upper edge of the epiglottis.
  • orthogonalise — to make (vectors, functions, etc.) orthogonal.
  • orthogonalize — to make (vectors, functions, etc.) orthogonal.
  • orthohydrogen — the form of molecular hydrogen in which the nuclei of the two hydrogen atoms contained in the molecule have spins in the same direction.
  • outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
  • overachieving — Present participle of overachieve.
  • overbreathing — hyperventilation
  • overnight bag — a travel bag large enough to hold personal articles and clothing for an overnight trip.
  • pharyngectomy — excision of part or all of the pharynx.
  • pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
  • phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
  • phytoestrogen — an estrogen-like compound occurring naturally in plants of the legume family and in grains, vegetables, and fruits.
  • pneumatograph — pneumograph.
  • power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
  • presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
  • psychosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in psychosurgery
  • right section — a representation of an object as it would appear if cut by a plane perpendicular to its longest axis.
  • righteousness — the quality or state of being righteous.
  • rocking horse — a toy horse, as of wood, mounted on rockers or springs, on which children may ride; hobbyhorse.
  • rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
  • rooming house — a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.
  • round herring — any of several herringlike fishes of the family Dussumieriidae having a rounded abdomen, living chiefly in tropical marine waters.
  • scorchingness — the state or quality of being scorching
  • second growth — the plant growth that follows the destruction of virgin forest.
  • selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • shaving horse — a trestle for supporting and steadying a piece of work being shaved.
  • shivering owl — screech owl.
  • short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
  • single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • staghorn fern — any of several epiphytic Old World ferns of the genus Platycerium, having broad, often antlerlike leaves and cultivated as a houseplant.
  • steganography — the practice of concealing messages in such a way that only the sender and the recipient know that there is a message
  • string theory — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • the foregoing — the one or ones previously mentioned
  • the long term — the time some years ahead, (as opposed to the immediate future)
  • thermogenesis — the production of heat, especially in an animal body by physiological processes.
  • thermosetting — pertaining to a type of plastic, as the urea resins, that sets when heated and cannot be remolded.
  • thermostating — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
  • thong leather — whang2 (def 2).
  • through stone — perpend1 .
  • to the ground — completely; absolutely
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