13-letter words containing h, i, g, o, r
- fighter pilot — sb who pilots a bomber plane
- fighting word — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
- filmographies — Plural form of filmography.
- flourishingly — In a flourishing way; tending to succeed and grow.
- flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- fluorographic — of or pertaining to fluorography
- folding chair — a chair that can be collapsed flat for easy storage or transport.
- for one thing — the first reason is
- forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
- foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
- foresightless — lacking foresight
- forthbringing — Present participle of forthbring.
- 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°.
- four-wheeling — traveling in a vehicle using four-wheel drive.
- 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.
- gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
- galerie house — (in French Louisiana) a house with its main story above the ground floor and with verandas (galeries) for both stories in tiers on at least one side.
- 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.
- gastrorrhagia — (medical) A hemorrhage from the stomach, also known as a gastric hemorrhage.
- genetotrophic — pertaining to nutrition and genetics
- geohydrologic — relating to geohydrology
- george wither — George, 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.
- gheorghiu-dej — Gheorghe [gyawr-ge] /ˈgyɔr gɛ/ (Show IPA), 1901–65, Romanian statesman: premier 1952–55; president of the state council 1961–65.
- 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.
- gilmore, john — John Gilmore
- give birth to — an act or instance of being born: the day of his birth.
- gladiatorship — the work of a gladiator
- gold chloride — a yellow to red, water-soluble compound, AuCl 3 , used chiefly in photography, gilding ceramic ware and glass, and in the manufacture of purple of Cassius.
- golden shiner — a small, silvery freshwater minnow, Notemigonus crysoleucas, native to eastern North America and introduced into western North America: often used as live bait in sport fishing.
- goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
- gonadotrophic — Of, pertaining to, or stimulating the functions of the gonads.
- gonadotrophin — a gonadotropic substance.
- gonochoristic — Of or pertaining to gonochorism.
- good behavior — satisfactory, proper, or polite conduct.
- good-neighbor — characterized by friendly political relations and mutual aid between countries.
- 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.
- grain alcohol — alcohol (def 1).
- grain sorghum — any of several varieties of sorghum, as durra or milo, having starchy seeds, grown for grain and forage.
- graphic algol — (language) A extension of ALGOL 60 for real-time generation of shaded perspective pictures.
- graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.