13-letter words containing h, i, g, o, r
- 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.
- housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
- housetraining — Present participle of housetrain.
- housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
- housing start — an instance of beginning the construction of a dwelling.
- hunting sword — a short, light saber of the 18th century, having a straight or slightly curved blade.
- hybrid vigour — the increased size, strength, etc, of a hybrid as compared to either of its parents
- hydrocracking — the cracking of petroleum or the like in the presence of hydrogen.
- hydrofracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- hydrogenating — Present participle of hydrogenate.
- hydrogenation — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
- hydrogenizing — Present participle of hydrogenize.
- hydronitrogen — a chemical compound containing only hydrogen and nitrogen.
- hygrometrical — Alternative form of hygrometric.
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hypnobirthing — the use of hypnotic techniques during labour by an expectant mother to reduce the pain and emotional stress of delivery
- iconographies — Plural form of iconography.
- ideographical — Alternative form of ideographic.
- impoverishing — Present participle of impoverish.
- in the groove — a long, narrow cut or indentation in a surface, as the cut in a board to receive the tongue of another board (tongue-and-groove joint) a furrow, or a natural indentation on an organism.
- jury shopping — the practice of presenting a case to several juries until a favourable decision is obtained
- karaoke night — a social occasion when karaoke sessions are held for entertainment, often in a pub or bar
- kentish glory — a moth, Endromis versicolora, common in north and central Europe, having brown variegated front wings and, in the male, orange hindwings
- kinematograph — cinematograph.
- leigh-mallory — Sir Trafford Leigh [traf-erd lee] /ˈtræf ərd li/ (Show IPA), 1892–1944, British Air Force officer.
- lexicographer — a writer, editor, or compiler of a dictionary.
- lexicographic — Like a dictionary, relating to lexicography (the writing of a dictionary).
- lightning rod — a rodlike conductor installed to divert lightning away from a structure by providing a direct path to the ground.
- lithographing — Present participle of lithograph.
- live together — cohabit
- loan-sharking — the practice of lending money at exorbitant or illegal interest rates
- logarithmancy — Divination using logarithms.
- logical truth — the property of being logically tautologous
- losing hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
- luxembourgish — Also, Luxembourgish [luhk-suh m-bur-gish] /ˈlʌk səmˌbɜr gɪʃ/ (Show IPA). Letzeburgesch.
- lymphographic — of or relating to lymphography
- marching song — a song with the rhythm of a march, esp sung by marching soldiers
- mastigophoran — Also, mastigophore [mas-ti-guh-fawr, -fohr] /ˈmæs tɪ gəˌfɔr, -ˌfoʊr/ (Show IPA). a protozoan of the phylum Mastigophora.
- mastigophoric — Carrying or wielding a whip.
- matchboarding — a construction of matchboards.
- megaherbivore — a large herbivore, such as an elephant, weighing more than 1000kg
- microchipping — Present participle of microchip.
- micrographics — the technique of photographing written or printed pages in reduced form to produce microfilm or microfiche.
- microhomology — (genetics) The presence of the same short sequence of bases in different genes.
- microlighting — the sport or act of flying in microlights
- microteaching — a scaled-down teaching procedure with a few students under controlled conditions, often videotaped in order to analyze teaching techniques and develop new teaching skills.
- middleborough — a town in SE Massachusetts.
- middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
- mimeographing — Present participle of mimeograph.