11-letter words containing g, r, e, a, t, h
- 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.
- get the air — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- gnatcatcher — any tiny insect-eating, New World warbler of the genus Polioptila, having a long, mobile tail and a slender bill.
- go to earth — to go into hiding
- goddaughter — a female godchild.
- goldthreads — Plural form of goldthread.
- goodhearted — Kind, generous and altruistic.
- grade sheet — a piece of paper on which a student's grades are recorded
- grand theft — stealing large amount
- grandfather — the father of one's father or mother.
- grandmother — the mother of one's father or mother.
- grangemouth — a port in Scotland, in Falkirk council area: now Scotland's second port, with oil refineries, shipyards, and chemical industries. Pop: 17 771 (2001)
- graphitized — (chemistry, of carbon) Converted to graphite.
- great wheel — the wheel immediately driven by the power source.
- green earth — a pigment used in painting consisting mainly of iron silicate, characterized chiefly by its variable grayish-green hue, lack of tinting strength, and permanence.
- greenhearts — Plural form of greenheart.
- growth area — a geographic or economic area in which there is noticeable growth
- growth rate — increase per unit
- hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- hatemongers — Plural form of hatemonger.
- hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
- hear things — a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
- heartaching — emotional pain or distress; sorrow; grief; anguish.
- heartstring — Singular of heartstrings.
- heater plug — one of usually four plugs fitted to the cylinder block of a diesel engine that warms the engine chamber to facilitate starting in cold weather
- heath grass — a European grass, Sieglingia decumbens, growing in spongy, wet, cold soils.
- hellgramite — The aquatic larval form of the dobsonfly, having a segmented body with legs on each segment, and a head with prominent pincers, prized as fish bait.
- heptangular — having seven angles.
- heterograft — xenograft.
- hibernating — Present participle of hibernate.
- high-hatter — to snub or treat condescendingly.
- higher rate — (in Britain) a rate of income tax that is higher than the basic rate and becomes payable on taxable income in excess of a specified limit
- highhearted — Alt form high-hearted.
- hucksterage — the business of a huckster; peddling
- hybernating — Present participle of hybernate.
- hydrogenate — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
- hyetography — the study of the annual and geographical distribution of rainfall.
- hypergelast — Someone who laughs excessively.
- hythergraph — a climatic graph showing relationships between temperature and humidity or temperature and precipitation.
- ingathering — a gathering in, especially of farm products; harvest.
- interchange — to put each in the place of the other: to interchange pieces of modular furniture.
- jacklighter — a person who hunts or fishes at night with the aid of a jacklight.
- khan tengri — a mountain in central Asia, on the border between Kyrgyzstan and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of W China. Height: 6995 m (22 951 ft)
- kinetograph — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.