13-letter words containing h, g, e, d, a, r
- goodheartedly — In a goodhearted manner.
- 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.
- grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
- grandchildren — a child of one's son or daughter.
- granddaughter — a daughter of one's son or daughter.
- grandfathered — Simple past tense and past participle of grandfather.
- grandfatherly — of or characteristic of a grandfather.
- grandmotherly — of or characteristic of a grandmother.
- great-hearted — having or showing a generous heart; magnanimous.
- hairdressings — Plural form of hairdressing.
- hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
- head gardener — the senior gardener who is in charge of a park, the garden of a large house, etc
- head register — the high register of the human voice.
- heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
- heart-rending — causing or expressing intense grief, anguish, or distress.
- hedge sparrow — the dunnock.
- heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
- herod agrippa — (Julius Agrippa) c10 b.c.–a.d. 44, king of Judea 41–44 (grandson of Herod the Great).
- hold a grudge — be resentful
- horse trading — the act or fact of conducting a shrewd exchange or engaging in a horse trade; bargaining.
- horse-trading — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
- hydrargillite — gibbsite.
- hydrogenating — Present participle of hydrogenate.
- hydrogenation — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
- ideographical — Alternative form of ideographic.
- large-hearted — having or showing generosity; charitable; understanding.
- leather goods — products made of animal skin
- light reading — reading which is not considered too demanding or intellectual
- light-hearted — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
- merchandising — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandizing — Alternative spelling of merchandising.
- nearsightedly — In a nearsighted manner; as if nearsighted; myopically.
- north reading — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- oil hardening — to quench (steel) in a bath of oil.
- phase diagram — a graph, usually using temperature, pressure, and composition as coordinates, indicating the regions of stability of the various phases of a system.
- phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
- powder charge — propellant (def 2).
- pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
- ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
- rayleigh disc — a small light disc suspended in the path of a sound wave, used to measure the intensity of the sound by analysing the resulting deflection of the disc
- rayleigh disk — a small circular disk, usually of mica, that is suspended from a fiber and tends to be deflected at right angles to a stream of air, indicating by its deflection the intensity of a sound wave.
- reading chair — a chair of the 18th century having an adjustable reading stand attached to the back and a crest rail extending forward on both sides to form armrests, designed to be sat on facing the back.
- reading light — any small electric light that you use for reading. You can usually move it in order to direct the light to where you need it for reading. It can be attached to a wall or shelf in the home, or be above your head inside an aircraft or other vehicle.
- right-brained — having the right brain dominant, therefore being more adept at spatial and nonverbal concepts and being more creative and emotional than logical and analytical.
- seventh grade — school year: age 12-13
- shaped charge — a warhead having a concave, hollow end and operating on the Munroe effect.
- sharp-sighted — having keen sight.
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- shearing shed — a farm building equipped with power machinery for sheepshearing and equipment for baling wool
- sight reading — the act or skill of performing unfamiliar written music, or of translating something written in a foreign language, readily on sight, without previous study