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13-letter words containing h, g, e

  • home shopping — buying items via tv or internet
  • home straight — the section of a racecourse forming the approach to the finish
  • homeobox gene — any of a group of genes whose function is to divide the early embryo into bands of cells with the potential to become specific organs or tissues.
  • homeschooling — a school set up in the home.
  • homing device — a mechanism incorporated into a guided missile, airplane, etc., that aims it toward its objective.
  • homing pigeon — any pigeon used to carry messages and equipped by training and breeding to fly home, sometimes from great distances.
  • homogeneities — Plural form of homogeneity.
  • homogeneously — composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind; not heterogeneous: a homogeneous population.
  • homogenetical — of, involving or relating to homogeny
  • homologoumena — the books in the New Testament generally held as authoritative and canonical by the early church.
  • honest to god — real or genuine.
  • honest-to-god — real or genuine.
  • honey gilding — gilding of ceramics with a mixture of gold leaf and honey, later fired to fix the gold.
  • hopper dredge — a self-propelled dredge having compartments in which the dredged material can be carried and dumped through hoppers.
  • horatio alger — of or characteristic of the heroes in the novels of Horatio Alger, who begin life in poverty and achieve success and wealth through honesty, hard work, and virtuous behavior: the Horatio Alger story of his rise in the business world.
  • hornswogglers — Plural form of hornswoggler.
  • horse gentian — any weedy North American plant of the genus Triosteum, of the honeysuckle family, especially T. perfoliatum, having stalkless leaves and purplish-brown flowers and bearing orange fruits.
  • horse stinger — a dragonfly.
  • 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.
  • horsewhipping — Present participle of horsewhip.
  • hot gospeller — a person who preaches in a fervent and vocal way, esp in evangelical churches
  • hot-water bag — a bag, usually of rubber, for holding hot water to apply warmth to some part of the body, as the feet.
  • hotel manager — sb who runs a hotel
  • hottentot fig — a succulent plant, Mesembryanthemum edule, of southern Africa, having a capsular fruit containing edible pulp: family Aizoaceae
  • house manager — a business manager responsible for managing a theater and its staff.
  • house surgeon — a surgeon who lives in a hospital in which he or she is on call.
  • house-hunting — the act of searching for a house to buy or rent
  • house-raising — a gathering of persons in a rural community to help one of its members build a house.
  • house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
  • housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
  • housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
  • housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
  • household god — a god presiding over and protecting the home, especially in the religion of ancient Rome.
  • housetraining — Present participle of housetrain.
  • housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
  • hugger-mugger — disorder or confusion; muddle.
  • human ecology — ecology (def 4).
  • hundredweight — Also called cental, quintal. a unit of avoirdupois weight commonly equivalent to 100 pounds (45.359 kilograms) in the U.S. Abbreviation: cwt.
  • hunger strike — refusal to eat as a protest
  • hunger-strike — to go on a hunger strike.
  • hunting knife — a large, sharp knife, usually with a handle shaped to fit a firm grip and a blade with a slight curve toward the tip, that is used to skin and cut up game, or sometimes to dispatch it.
  • hunting lodge — a house or hut in the country or in the mountains where people stay on holiday when they want to go hunting
  • hunting rifle — shotgun used to kill game
  • husking (bee) — cornhusking (sense 2)
  • hydrargillite — gibbsite.
  • hydrogen bomb — a bomb, more powerful than an atomic bomb, that derives its explosive energy from the thermonuclear fusion reaction of hydrogen isotopes.
  • hydrogen bond — a type of chemical bond in which a hydrogen atom that has a covalent link with one of the electronegative atoms (F, N, O) forms an electrostatic link with another electronegative atom in the same or another molecule.
  • hydrogenating — Present participle of hydrogenate.
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