11-letter words containing h, g, e
- overdraught — (chiefly, British) An overdraft.
- overfishing — to fish (an area) excessively; to exhaust the supply of usable fish in (certain waters): Scientists are concerned that fishing boats may overfish our coastal waters.
- overfraught — too fraught
- overfreight — to load too heavily
- overhanging — extending or dangling
- overheating — heating (something) excessively
- overhunting — to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
- overnighted — for or during the night: to stay overnight.
- overnighter — an overnight stay or trip.
- overtighten — to tighten too much
- overwrought — extremely or excessively excited or agitated: to become overwrought on hearing bad news; an overwrought personality.
- oxyhydrogen — pertaining to or involving a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen.
- paleography — ancient forms of writing, as in documents and inscriptions.
- pantheology — a branch of theology embracing all gods and all religions
- paperhanger — a person whose job is covering walls with wallpaper.
- paperweight — a small, heavy object of glass, metal, etc., placed on papers to keep them from scattering.
- paragrapher — a person who writes very short pieces or fillers for a newspaper.
- pathologies — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
- pathologize — to represent (something) as a disease
- pedagoguish — resembling or reminiscent of a pedagogue
- peng dehuai — 1898–1974, Chinese Communist military leader: defense minister 1954–59.
- pennyweight — (in troy weight) a unit of 24 grains or 1/20 of an ounce (1.56 grams). Abbreviation: dwt, pwt.
- pershing ii — a 38-foot (12 meters) U.S. Army surface-to-surface nuclear missile with a single warhead and range of more than 1000 miles (1609 km).
- petroglyphy — the skill or procedure of making rock carvings
- petrography — the branch of petrology dealing with the description and classification of rocks, especially by microscopic examination.
- phagedaenic — relating to or having the characteristics of phagedaena
- phagocytize — (of a phagocyte) to devour (material).
- phagocytose — phagocytize.
- phanerogams — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
- phase angle — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- phlebograph — an instrument for recording the venous pulse.
- phraseogram — a written symbol or combination of symbols, as in shorthand, used to represent a phrase.
- phraseology — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
- pigeon hawk — merlin.
- pigeon-hole — one of a series of small, open compartments, as in a desk, cabinet, or the like, used for filing or sorting papers, letters, etc.
- pigeonholer — someone who likes to pigeonhole people or things
- pinwheeling — a child's toy consisting of a wheel or leaflike curls of paper or plastic loosely attached by a pin to a stick, designed to revolve when blown by or as by the wind.
- plectognath — belonging to the Plectognathi, a group or order of fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick, often spiny, scaleless skin, and including the filefish, globefish, puffer, and triggerfish.
- plenishings — furnishings or equipment
- ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
- plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
- pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
- poached egg — A poached egg is an egg cooked gently in boiling water, without its shell.
- polygrapher — a person who employs a code cipher
- pre-hearing — the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived.
- preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
- prize fight — A prize fight is a boxing match where the boxers are paid to fight, especially one that is not official.
- prophesying — to foretell or predict.
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- psychagogue — a necromancer