10-letter words containing g, o, r, h, e
- heliograph — a device for signaling by means of a movable mirror that reflects beams of light, especially sunlight, to a distance.
- hemorrhage — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
- heortology — the study of the history and significance of the feasts and seasons in the ecclesiastical calendar.
- heroic age — one of the five periods in human history, when, according to Hesiod, gods and demigods performed heroic and glorious deeds.
- heterogamy — heterogamous state.
- heterogeny — the condition or state of being heterogenous
- heterogony — the alternation of dioecious and hermaphroditic individuals in successive generations, as in certain nematodes.
- heterology — Biology. the lack of correspondence of apparently similar organic structures as the result of unlike origins of constituent parts.
- hieroglyph — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
- hierograms — Plural form of hierogram.
- hierograph — sacred writing or characters
- high horse — a haughty attitude or temper; a contemptuous manner.
- high-power — (of a rifle) of a sufficiently high muzzle velocity and using a heavy enough bullet to kill large game.
- highbrowed — (of a person) highbrow; intellectual and cultured.
- highermost — highest
- hog badger — a SE Asian badger, Arctonyx collaris, with a piglike mobile snout
- hog sucker — any of several suckers of the genus Hypentelium, inhabiting cool streams of eastern North America and characterized by a broad head that is concave above.
- holstering — Present participle of holster.
- home guard — a volunteer force used for meeting local emergencies when the regular armed forces are needed elsewhere.
- home range — the area in which an animal normally lives.
- home-grown — grown or produced at home or in a particular region for local consumption: homegrown tomatoes.
- hooked rug — a rug made by drawing loops of yarn or cloth through a foundation of burlap or the like, to form a pattern.
- hop garden — a field of hops
- horselaugh — a loud, coarse laugh, especially of derision.
- hot dogger — a frankfurter.
- hour angle — the angle, measured westward through 360°, between the celestial meridian of an observer and the hour circle of a celestial body.
- hydragogue — causing the discharge of watery fluid, as from the bowels.
- hydrogenic — (chemistry) hydrogen-like.
- hyetograph — a map or chart showing the average rainfall for the localities represented.
- hygrometer — any instrument for measuring the water-vapor content of the atmosphere.
- hygrometry — the branch of physics that deals with the measurement of the humidity of air and gases.
- hygrophobe — a plant that grows best with little or no moisture
- hygrophyte — a plant that thrives in wet or very moist ground.
- hygroscope — an instrument that indicates the approximate humidity of the air.
- hypergolic — (especially of rocket-fuel propellant constituents) igniting spontaneously upon contact with a complementary substance.
- ideographs — an ideogram.
- ideography — the use of ideograms.
- lagerphone — (Australia) A generally homemade percussion instrument consisting of crown cap beer bottle tops loosely nailed to a pole (often a broom handle) and a board mounted cross-ways on the pole (the head of the broom), and played by striking the pole on the ground or with a stick, by drawing the serrated stick across the pole, or by shaking the instrument. (From 1952.).
- largemouth — Applied to various kinds of fish characterized by a large mouth.
- lithomarge — kaolin in compact, massive, usually impure form.
- loggerhead — a thick-headed or stupid person; blockhead.
- logorrheic — pathologically incoherent, repetitious speech.
- logorrhoea — (British spelling) Standard form of logorrhea.
- long horse — vaulting horse.
- longhaired — Having long hair.
- macrophage — a large white blood cell, occurring principally in connective tissue and in the bloodstream, that ingests foreign particles and infectious microorganisms by phagocytosis.
- mareograph — marigraph.
- microphage — a small phagocytic cell in blood or lymph, especially a polymorphonuclear leukocyte.
- mimeograph — a printing machine with an ink-fed drum, around which a cut waxed stencil is placed and which rotates as successive sheets of paper are fed into it.
- morgenthau — Henry, 1856–1946, U.S. financier and diplomat, born in Germany.