12-letter words containing h, e, r, t, o
- for the best — of the highest quality, excellence, or standing: the best work; the best students.
- foregathered — Simple past tense and past participle of foregather.
- foreshortens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshorten.
- foresightful — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
- forethoughts — Plural form of forethought.
- fort mchenry — a town in NE Illinois.
- forty-eighth — next after the forty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 48.
- foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- fotheringhay — a village in NE Northamptonshire, in E England, near Peterborough: Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned here and executed 1587.
- fourteenthly — in (the) fourteenth place
- fourth grade — school year: age 9-10
- free thought — thought unrestrained by deference to authority, tradition, or established belief, especially in matters of religion.
- freight note — a document containing full particulars of goods shipped or for shipment
- french toast — bread dipped in a batter of egg and milk and sautéed until brown, usually served with syrup or sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon.
- fresh out of — having just run out of supplies of
- frighten off — scare away
- frontbencher — (politics) one who sits on the front bench in a parliament. Typically the spokesmen for those who sit further back.
- future shock — physical and psychological disturbance caused by a person's inability to cope with very rapid social and technological change.
- galactophore — a galactophorous duct.
- galactorrhea — an abnormally abundant flow of milk in a lactating woman.
- gametophores — Plural form of gametophore.
- gauge theory — a type of theory of elementary particles designed to explain the strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions in terms of exchange of virtual particles
- geochemistry — the science dealing with the chemical changes in and the composition of the earth's crust.
- geothermally — By geothermal means, especially by means of geothermal energy.
- gerontophile — someone who is sexually attracted to old people
- gerontophobe — a person who fears or hates old people or the idea of growing old
- get together — an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal: the get of a stallion.
- get-together — an informal and usually small social gathering.
- ghost writer — a person who writes one or numerous speeches, books, articles, etc., for another person who is named as or presumed to be the author.
- ghostbusters — Plural form of ghostbuster.
- ghostwriters — Plural form of ghostwriter.
- ghostwritten — Written by a ghostwriter.
- giant hornet — any large, stinging paper wasp of the family Vespidae, as Vespa crabro (giant hornet) introduced into the U.S. from Europe, or Vespula maculata (bald-faced hornet or white-faced hornet) of North America.
- gift voucher — gift certificate.
- glatt kosher — prepared for eating according to the dietary laws followed by Hasidic Jews, which differ somewhat from those followed by other observers of kashruth: glatt kosher meat.
- go the round — to be circulated among a number of people: said of a story, rumor, etc.
- go the route — If you go the route, you do something fully or continue with a task until you have completely finished.
- god-botherer — an over-zealous Christian
- goddaughters — Plural form of goddaughter.
- gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
- goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
- good-hearted — kind or generous; considerate; benevolent.
- gopher state — Minnesota (used as a nickname).
- gospel truth — an unquestionably true statement, fact, etc.
- grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
- graph theory — the branch of mathematics dealing with linear graphs.
- grapple shot — a grapnellike projectile fired from a gun and used as a hold for the end of a line in rescue operations or in kedging.
- gross weight — total weight without deduction for tare, tret, or waste.
- groundsheets — Plural form of groundsheet.
- group theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with the structure of mathematical groups and mappings between them.