11-letter words containing h, a, r
- frame house — a house constructed with a skeleton framework of timber, as the ordinary wooden house.
- franchisees — Plural form of franchisee.
- franchisers — Plural form of franchiser.
- franchising — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- francophile — friendly to or having a strong liking for France or the French.
- francophobe — Also, Francophobic. fearing or hating France, the French people, and French culture, products, etc.
- francophone — Also, Francophonic [frang-kuh-fon-ik] /ˌfræŋ kəˈfɒn ɪk/ (Show IPA). speaking French, especially as a member of a French-speaking population.
- free charge — any electric charge that can be placed on a conductor or on or within a dielectric or that moves freely in space (opposed to polarization charge).
- free-handed — generous; liberal.
- freehearted — Liberal; unrestrained.
- freight car — any car for carrying freight.
- french arch — an arch similar to a flat arch, but having voussoirs inclined to the same angle on each side of the center.
- french bean — British. the pod of a green bean or wax bean, eaten as a vegetable.
- french fact — (in Canada) the presence of French Canada as a distinct cultural force within the Confederation
- french flat — a flat that can be raised to or hung from the flies, and that contains practicable doors, windows, etc.
- french harp — harmonica (def 1).
- french loaf — baguette, long stick of bread
- french navy — a dark dull navy blue
- french seam — a seam in which the raw edges of the cloth are completely covered by sewing them together, first on the right side, then on the wrong.
- frenchwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of the French nation.
- fresh water — water that is not salty
- fresh-faced — having a healthy or ruddy appearance
- frogmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of frogmarch.
- frost heave — an uplift in soil caused by the freezing of internal moisture.
- fruit ranch — a farm where fruit is the main produce.
- ftp archive — archive site
- furaldehyde — either of two aldehydes derived from furan, esp 2-furaldehyde
- furtherance — the act of furthering; promotion; advancement.
- gainsharing — a system in which employees are financially rewarded for reducing operating costs and working more efficiently. The reward may or may not be in relation to individual performance
- game theory — a mathematical theory that deals with strategies for maximizing gains and minimizing losses within prescribed constraints, as the rules of a card game: widely applied in the solution of various decision-making problems, as those of military strategy and business policy.
- gamechanger — A visionary, innovative person who changes the way people think of a situation.
- gametophore — a part or structure bearing gametangia.
- gandhinagar — a region in W India, N of the Narmada River.
- gangsterish — (informal) Gangsterlike.
- gantt chart — a chart depicting progress in relation to time of projects, tasks, schedules, etc.
- garden hose — tube for spraying plants with water
- garden path — paved walkway
- 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 chamber — an enclosure used for the execution of prisoners by means of a poisonous gas.
- gas lighter — device: produces flame
- gastroliths — Plural form of gastrolith.
- gastropathy — (pathology) Any disease of the stomach.
- gastrosophy — the science or art of good eating
- gastrotrich — any of the microscopic, multicellular animals of the class or phylum Gastrotricha, of fresh or salt waters, characterized by bands of cilia on the ventral surface of the bottle-shaped or ribbony body and by a protrusible feeding apparatus at the mouth.
- 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.
- generalship — skill as commander of a large military force or unit.