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14-letter words containing h, e, g, o, a

  • gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
  • game of chance — a game in which the outcome is determined by chance rather than by the skill of its players, as roulette.
  • game show host — a broadcaster who reads the questions or conducts a game show
  • garrison house — a style of early New England house in which the second floor projects beyond the first.
  • genethlialogic — relating to the science of casting horoscopes
  • 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 all the way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • go easy on sth — If you tell someone to go easy on something, you are telling them to use only a small amount of it.
  • go in the tank — to lose or fail badly or on purpose
  • go on the swag — to become a tramp
  • go pear-shaped — If a situation goes pear-shaped, bad things start happening.
  • go to the pack — to fall into a lower state or condition
  • go to the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
  • go up the wall — to become crazy or furious
  • golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
  • goliath beetle — any very large tropical scarabaeid beetle of the genus Goliathus, esp G. giganteus of Africa, which may grow to a length of 20 centimetres
  • googlewhacking — The action of searching for googlewhacks.
  • 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)
  • gouda (cheese) — a mild, semisoft to hard cheese similar to Edam and sometimes coated with red wax
  • grade-schooler — a pupil in a grade school.
  • graeffe method — a method, involving the squaring of roots, for approximating the solutions to algebraic equations.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • haematogenesis — (physiology) The origin and development of blood.
  • haematological — Alternative spelling of hematological.
  • haematophagous — (of certain animals) feeding on blood
  • half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
  • half-forgotten — a past participle of forget.
  • hallucinogenic — producing hallucinations: a hallucinogenic drug.
  • have bought it — to be killed
  • have it coming — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
  • hawaiian goose — nene.
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • headstrongness — The property of being headstrong, stubbornness.
  • healing powers — beneficial qualities
  • heart-stopping — A heart-stopping moment is one that makes you anxious or frightened because it seems that something bad is likely to happen.
  • heavy hydrogen — either of the heavy isotopes of hydrogen, especially deuterium.
  • heavy nitrogen — the stable isotope of nitrogen having a mass number of 15.
  • height of land — a watershed
  • hemoflagellate — a flagellate protozoan, especially of the genera Trypanosoma and Leishmania, that is parasitic in the blood.
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
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