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13-letter words containing g, r, a, s, h, e

  • fashionmonger — (derogatory) One who slavishly follows the latest fashions.
  • feather grass — any American grass of the genus Stipa, having a feathery appendage.
  • filmographies — Plural form of filmography.
  • fish geranium — zonal geranium.
  • flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
  • foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
  • galerie house — (in French Louisiana) a house with its main story above the ground floor and with verandas (galeries) for both stories in tiers on at least one side.
  • galois theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with the application of the theory of finite groups to the solution of algebraic equations.
  • gangster chic — a cinematic or literary genre which seeks to glamorize the criminal underworld
  • garden shears — shears used for gardening
  • garnisheement — the process of arresting a debtor's money or property from the hands of a third party
  • garter stitch — a basic knitting pattern that produces an evenly pebbled texture on both sides of the work, created by consistently knitting or purling every stitch of every row.
  • gastrohepatic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and the liver.
  • gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
  • ghettoblaster — Alternative form of ghetto blaster.
  • give sb heart — If something gives you heart, it makes you feel more confident or happy about something.
  • global search — a word-processing operation in which a complete computer file or set of files is searched for every occurrence of a particular word or other sequence of characters
  • glossographer — a glossator.
  • gram's method — a method of staining and distinguishing bacteria, in which a fixed bacterial smear is stained with crystal violet, treated with Gram's solution, decolorized with alcohol, counterstained with safranine, and washed with water.
  • grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
  • grape harvest — gathering of ripe grapes from the vine
  • grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
  • gresham's law — the tendency of the inferior of two forms of currency to circulate more freely than, or to the exclusion of, the superior, because of the hoarding of the latter.
  • growth shares — ordinary shares with good prospects of appreciation in yield and value
  • gunters-chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • hagiographers — Plural form of hagiographer.
  • hagiographies — Plural form of hagiography.
  • hairdressings — Plural form of hairdressing.
  • hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
  • hart's-tongue — a fern, Phyllitis scolopendrium, having long, leathery, wavy-edged leaves.
  • head register — the high register of the human voice.
  • heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
  • heart massage — rhythmic manual compression of the sternum or heart to restore normal heartbeat, as after cardiac arrest.
  • heart surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in performing operations on the heart
  • heart surgery — operation to treat cardiac problems
  • heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
  • hedge sparrow — the dunnock.
  • hellgrammites — Plural form of hellgrammite (Alternative spelling of hellgramites).
  • heresiography — a treatise on heresy.
  • heritage site — a historical site, a building, or an area of the unspoilt natural environment, considered to be important to a country or area's heritage
  • heterogametes — Plural form of heterogamete.
  • heteroglossia — (linguistics) the coexistence of distinct varieties within a single linguistic code.
  • histaminergic — releasing histamine
  • home straight — the section of a racecourse forming the approach to the finish
  • horse gentian — any weedy North American plant of the genus Triosteum, of the honeysuckle family, especially T. perfoliatum, having stalkless leaves and purplish-brown flowers and bearing orange fruits.
  • horse trading — the act or fact of conducting a shrewd exchange or engaging in a horse trade; bargaining.
  • horse-trading — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
  • house manager — a business manager responsible for managing a theater and its staff.
  • house-raising — a gathering of persons in a rural community to help one of its members build a house.
  • house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
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