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14-letter words containing h, a, o, r

  • 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.
  • force of habit — behavior occurring without thought and by virtue of constant repetition; habit.
  • force the pace — to adopt a high speed or rate of procedure
  • forehand drive — (in racket sports) a type of shot made on the forehand side
  • forehandedness — Quality of being forehanded.
  • forenoon watch — the watch from 8 a.m. until noon.
  • formal methods — (mathematics, specification)   Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • frasch process — a method of mining sulfur by pumping superheated water down into the deposit, thereby melting it so that it can be pumped to the surface.
  • free cash flow — Free cash flow is revenue of a business that is available to spend.
  • free of charge — having no cost
  • french oceania — former name of French Polynesia.
  • french paradox — the theory that the lower incidence of heart disease in Mediterranean countries compared to that in the US is a consequence of the larger intake of flavonoids from red wine in these countries
  • friction match — a kind of match tipped with a compound that ignites by friction.
  • g-strophanthin — ouabain.
  • galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
  • gallows humour — sinister and ironic humour
  • galvanotherapy — treatment employing electric current.
  • 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.
  • geodemographic — Of or pertaining to geography and demography.
  • geographically — of or relating to geography.
  • germanomethane — (chemistry) germanium tetrahydride.
  • ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
  • globe amaranth — a plant, Gomphrena globosa, native to the Old World tropics, having dense heads of variously colored flowers that retain their color when cut.
  • glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
  • go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
  • go pear-shaped — If a situation goes pear-shaped, bad things start happening.
  • golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
  • gothic revival — a Gothic style of architecture popular between the late 18th and late 19th centuries, exemplified by the Houses of Parliament in London (1840)
  • grade-schooler — a pupil in a grade school.
  • graeffe method — a method, involving the squaring of roots, for approximating the solutions to algebraic equations.
  • grammar school — an elementary school.
  • graph coloring — graph colouring
  • graphite cloth — a nonwoven fabric made by embedding carbon fibers in a plastic bonding material, used in layers as a substitute for sheet metal, as in the construction of aircraft wings.
  • graphitization — (geology) The formation of graphite from other organic materials.
  • great yarmouth — a city in SE Massachusetts.
  • greek catholic — a member of the Greek Orthodox Church.
  • greenhouse gas — any of the gases whose absorption of solar radiation is responsible for the greenhouse effect, including carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, and the fluorocarbons.
  • greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
  • grow the beard — (of a TV series) to gain credibility or improve in quality during the course of a series following a specified development
  • guard of honor — a guard specially designated for welcoming or escorting distinguished guests or for accompanying a casket in a military funeral.
  • gynandromorphs — Plural form of gynandromorph.
  • haemocytometer — an apparatus for counting the number of cells in a quantity of blood, typically consisting of a graduated pipette for drawing and diluting the blood and a ruled glass slide on which the cells are counted under a microscope
  • hagiographical — Hagiographic.
  • hair extension — attached length of hair
  • haitian creole — the creolized French that is the native language of most Haitians.
  • half seas over — of, relating to, or adapted for use at sea.
  • half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
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