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13-letter words containing h, e, t, r, o, g

  • foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
  • foresightless — lacking foresight
  • fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
  • forty-eightmo — a book size of about 2½ × 4 inches (6 × 10 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 48 leaves or 96 pages. Abbreviation: 48mo, 48°.
  • fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
  • freight depot — (on a rail network) a place where freight is stored while awaiting onward transport
  • freight house — a depot or storage place for freight.
  • frighten into — If you frighten someone into doing something they would not normally do, you make them do it by making them afraid not to do it.
  • galactorrhoea — (British spelling) alternative spelling of galactorrhea.
  • galois theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with the application of the theory of finite groups to the solution of algebraic equations.
  • gastrohepatic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and the liver.
  • gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
  • genetotrophic — pertaining to nutrition and genetics
  • george witherGeorge, 1588–1667, English poet and pamphleteer.
  • gerontophilia — sexual attraction towards old people
  • gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
  • get over with — If you want to get something unpleasant over with, you want to do it or finish experiencing it quickly, since you cannot avoid it.
  • get somewhere — to make progress
  • get the works — to be the victim of extreme measures
  • ghettoblaster — Alternative form of ghetto blaster.
  • ghiordes knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the parallel ends of looped yarn alternate with two threads of warp, producing an uneven pile effect.
  • give birth to — an act or instance of being born: the day of his birth.
  • globe theatre — a theater on the south bank of the Thames in London, 1599–1613: many of Shakespeare's plays were first produced here.
  • glove leather — a soft, smooth, pliable, stretchable leather.
  • go the rounds — If a story, idea, or joke is going the rounds or doing the rounds, a lot of people have heard it and are telling it to other people.
  • goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
  • goodheartedly — In a goodhearted manner.
  • gopher client — (networking)   A program which runs on your local computer and provides a user interface to the Gopher protocol and to gopher servers. Web browsers can act as Gopher clients and simple Gopher-only clients are available for ordinary terminals, the X Window System, GNU Emacs, and other systems.
  • gram's method — a method of staining and distinguishing bacteria, in which a fixed bacterial smear is stained with crystal violet, treated with Gram's solution, decolorized with alcohol, counterstained with safranine, and washed with water.
  • grandmotherly — of or characteristic of a grandmother.
  • graph plotter — plotter
  • grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
  • grey-thompson — Tanni (Carys Davina) Baroness. born 1969, Welsh wheelchair athlete; won eleven gold medals for Britain in wheelchair racing in the Paralympic Games (1988–2004); a crossbench peer in the House of Lords since 2010
  • group therapy — psychotherapy in which a number of patients discuss their problems together, usually under the leadership of a therapist, using shared knowledge and experiences to provide constructive feedback about maladaptive behavior.
  • growth market — a rapidly expanding market
  • growth shares — ordinary shares with good prospects of appreciation in yield and value
  • hack together — (jargon)   To throw something together so it will work. Unlike "kluge together" or "cruft together", this does not necessarily have negative connotations.
  • hang together — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
  • hart's-tongue — a fern, Phyllitis scolopendrium, having long, leathery, wavy-edged leaves.
  • hatemongering — The behaviour of a hatemonger; the spreading of hatred.
  • haute-garonne — a department in S France. 2458 sq. mi. (6365 sq. km). Capital: Toulouse.
  • heart surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in performing operations on the heart
  • heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
  • heating power — power that can be used to heat something
  • heortological — of or relating to heortology
  • hepatojugular — (medicine) Relating to the liver and the jugular vein.
  • heresiologist — a person who studies or writes about heresies.
  • herpetologist — the branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians.
  • hertogenbosch — 's Hertogenbosch.
  • heterogametes — Plural form of heterogamete.
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