14-letter words containing h, g

go on the swag — to become a tramp
go pear-shaped — If a situation goes pear-shaped, bad things start happening.
go to bed with — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
go to the dogs — a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
go to the pack — to fall into a lower state or condition
go to the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
go up the wall — to become crazy or furious
golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
golden thistle — Spanish oyster plant.
goliath beetle — any very large tropical scarabaeid beetle of the genus Goliathus, esp G. giganteus of Africa, which may grow to a length of 20 centimetres
goodfellowship — cheerful company
goodnight kiss — a kiss given to a person before going home or going to sleep
googlewhacking — The action of searching for googlewhacks.
gothic revival — a Gothic style of architecture popular between the late 18th and late 19th centuries, exemplified by the Houses of Parliament in London (1840)
gouda (cheese) — a mild, semisoft to hard cheese similar to Edam and sometimes coated with red wax
gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
grade-schooler — a pupil in a grade school.
graeffe method — a method, involving the squaring of roots, for approximating the solutions to algebraic equations.
graham cracker — a semisweet cracker, usually rectangular in shape, made chiefly of whole-wheat flour.
grammar school — an elementary school.
grammarchecker — (computing) A software application, like a spellchecker, that attempts to verify proper grammar in a document.
granddaughters — Plural form of granddaughter.
grandfathering — Present participle of grandfather.
grape hyacinth — any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, as M. botryoides, having globular, blue flowers resembling tiny grapes.
graph coloring — graph colouring
graphic accent — any mark written above a letter, especially one indicating stress in pronunciation, as in Spanish rápido.
graphic artist — sb who draws, paints, prints, etc.
graphic design — the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience, especially to produce a specific effect.
graphite cloth — a nonwoven fabric made by embedding carbon fibers in a plastic bonding material, used in layers as a substitute for sheet metal, as in the construction of aircraft wings.
graphitization — (geology) The formation of graphite from other organic materials.
great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
great yarmouth — a city in SE Massachusetts.
greek alphabet — the alphabetical script derived from a Semitic alphabet by way of the Phoenicians, used from about the 8th century b.c. for the writing of Greek, and forming the basis of many other scripts, including Latin and Cyrillic. The letters of the Greek alphabet are: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu1 , xi, omicron, pi1 , rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi1 , psi1 , omega.
greek catholic — a member of the Greek Orthodox Church.
green strength — Foundry. the tensile strength of greensand.
greenhouse gas — any of the gases whose absorption of solar radiation is responsible for the greenhouse effect, including carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, and the fluorocarbons.
greenwich time — the time as measured on the prime meridian running through Greenwich, England: used in England and as a standard of calculation elsewhere.
greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
grinding wheel — a wheel composed of abrasive material, used for grinding.
ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
group of eight — the Group of Seven nations and Russia, whose heads of government meet to discuss economic matters and international relations
group of three — Japan, US, and Germany (formerly West Germany), regarded as the largest industrialized nations
grow the beard — (of a TV series) to gain credibility or improve in quality during the course of a series following a specified development
growth hormone — any substance that stimulates or controls the growth of an organism, especially a species-specific hormone, as the human hormone somatotropin, secreted by the anterior pituitary gland. Abbreviation: GH.
guangxi zhuang — an administrative division in S China. 85,096 sq. mi. (220,399 sq. km). Capital: Nanning.
guard of honor — a guard specially designated for welcoming or escorting distinguished guests or for accompanying a casket in a military funeral.
guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
gum tragacanth — tragacanth.
gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
gymslip mother — a girl of school age who has become a mother

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