11-letter words containing h, o, a, r
- fort thomas — a city in N Kentucky.
- fothergilla — any of the deciduous shrub species in the witch-hazel family
- four-handed — involving four hands or players, as a game at cards: Bridge is usually a four-handed game.
- fourth wall — the imaginary wall of a box set, separating the actors from the audience.
- fourth-rate — of very low quality, value, or rank
- frame house — a house constructed with a skeleton framework of timber, as the ordinary wooden house.
- francophile — friendly to or having a strong liking for France or the French.
- francophobe — Also, Francophobic. fearing or hating France, the French people, and French culture, products, etc.
- francophone — Also, Francophonic [frang-kuh-fon-ik] /ˌfræŋ kəˈfɒn ɪk/ (Show IPA). speaking French, especially as a member of a French-speaking population.
- french loaf — baguette, long stick of bread
- frenchwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of the French nation.
- frogmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of frogmarch.
- frost heave — an uplift in soil caused by the freezing of internal moisture.
- game theory — a mathematical theory that deals with strategies for maximizing gains and minimizing losses within prescribed constraints, as the rules of a card game: widely applied in the solution of various decision-making problems, as those of military strategy and business policy.
- gametophore — a part or structure bearing gametangia.
- garden hose — tube for spraying plants with water
- gastroliths — Plural form of gastrolith.
- gastropathy — (pathology) Any disease of the stomach.
- gastrosophy — the science or art of good eating
- gastrotrich — any of the microscopic, multicellular animals of the class or phylum Gastrotricha, of fresh or salt waters, characterized by bands of cilia on the ventral surface of the bottle-shaped or ribbony body and by a protrusible feeding apparatus at the mouth.
- gate theory — a theory proposing that neural stimulation beyond a certain threshold level, as by application of an electric current, can overwhelm the ability of the nerve center to sense pain.
- geographers — Plural form of geographer.
- geographies — the science dealing with the areal differentiation of the earth's surface, as shown in the character, arrangement, and interrelations over the world of such elements as climate, elevation, soil, vegetation, population, land use, industries, or states, and of the unit areas formed by the complex of these individual elements.
- gerlachovka — a mountain in N Slovakia: highest peak of the Carpathian Mountains. 8737 feet (2663 meters).
- germaphobia — Pathological fear of germs.
- germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
- ghirlandaio — (Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi) 1449–94, Italian painter.
- ghost train — a small train at an amusement park that travels through a dark tunnel in which sounds, lights, and mechanized objects are used to scare the people in the train
- gjallarhorn — Heimdall's horn, used to warn the gods of Ragnarok.
- glyptograph — an engraved or carved design, as on a gem.
- go straight — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- go to earth — to go into hiding
- goddaughter — a female godchild.
- goldthreads — Plural form of goldthread.
- gonorrhoeal — Alternative spelling of gonorrheal.
- goodhearted — Kind, generous and altruistic.
- gopher ball — a pitched ball hit for a home run: leading the league in gopher balls.
- gopherspace — (networking) The sum of all files that can be reached using gopher.
- gothic arch — a pointed arch, especially one having only two centers and equal radii.
- gramophones — Plural form of gramophone.
- grandmother — the mother of one's father or mother.
- grangemouth — a port in Scotland, in Falkirk council area: now Scotland's second port, with oil refineries, shipyards, and chemical industries. Pop: 17 771 (2001)
- granolithic — (of concrete) containing fine granite chippings or crushed granite, used to render floors and surfaces.
- graphomania — The compulsion to write books.
- graphomotor — pertaining to the muscular movements in writing.
- graphophone — a phonograph for recording and reproducing sounds on wax records.
- grass cloth — a cloth made from plant fibres, such as jute or hemp
- grasshopper — any of numerous herbivorous, orthopterous insects, especially of the families Acrididae and Tettigoniidae, having the hind legs adapted for leaping and having chewing mouth parts, some species being highly destructive to vegetation. Compare locust (def 1), long-horned grasshopper.
- groatsworth — the amount that is, or may be, bought or sold for a groat
- groundshare — to share the facilities and running costs of a single stadium with another team