11-letter words containing h, o, g, e
- geotechnics — the application of science in order to utilize the earth's natural resources in engineering projects
- gerlachovka — a mountain in N Slovakia: highest peak of the Carpathian Mountains. 8737 feet (2663 meters).
- germ theory — Pathology. the theory that infectious diseases are due to the agency of germs or microorganisms.
- germaphobia — Pathological fear of germs.
- germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
- germophobic — Morbidly afraid of germs.
- gerontophil — experiencing sexual attraction to old people
- get hold of — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- get nowhere — make no progress
- get shot of — to get rid of
- get shut of — to get rid of
- get the nod — sb: have permission
- get through — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- ghetto code — (humour, programming) A particularly inelegant and obviously suboptimal section of code that still meets the original requirements.
- ghettoizing — Present participle of ghettoize.
- ghost dance — a ritual dance intended to establish communion with the dead, especially such a dance as performed by various messianic western American Indian cults in the late 19th century.
- ghost image — ghost (def 8).
- ghost-write — If a book or other piece of writing is ghost-written, it is written by a writer for another person, for example a politician or sportsman, who then publishes it as his or her own work.
- ghostbuster — A person who claims to be able to banish ghosts and poltergeists.
- ghostliness — of, characteristic of, or resembling a ghost; phantasmal; spectral.
- ghostwriter — A person whose job it is to write material for someone else who is the named author.
- give a hoot — not care
- give it hot — to punish or thrash someone
- glasshouses — Plural form of glasshouse.
- glaucophane — a sodium-rich monoclinic mineral of the amphibole family, usually metamorphic.
- globefishes — Plural form of globefish.
- glochidiate — (botany) Having barbs.
- glutathione — a crystalline, water-soluble peptide of glutamic acid, cysteine, and glycine, C 10 H 17 N 3 O 6 S, found in blood and in animal and plant tissues, and important in tissue oxidations and in the activation of some enzymes.
- glyptotheca — a space devoted to sculpture
- gnamma hole — a hollow in bare rock, narrow at the opening and wider at the bottom, in which water collects.
- gnathostome — (zoology) Any vertebrate with jaws, including amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and most modern fish.
- gnetophytes — Plural form of gnetophyte.
- go to earth — to go into hiding
- go together — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- goat cheese — a cheese containing goat's milk, either alone or mixed with cow's milk, usually having a stronger flavor than one made of cow's milk alone.
- goatishness — The state or condition of being goatish.
- god help us — If you say God help us, you mean that you have negative feelings about the person or situation you are talking about.
- godchildren — Plural form of godchild.
- goddaughter — a female godchild.
- goddessship — a female god or deity.
- golden horn — an inlet of the Bosporus, in European Turkey: forms the inner part of Istanbul.
- golden hour — the first hour after a serious accident, when it is crucial that the victim receives medical treatment in order to have a chance of surviving
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
- goldthreads — Plural form of goldthread.
- gomphothere — Any of the extinct proboscideans of the family Gomphotheriidae, that lived in North America and Eurasia during the Miocene and Pliocene (12\u20141.6 million years ago), and latterly also in South America (around 3 million to 9100 years ago).
- gonorrhoeal — Alternative spelling of gonorrheal.
- goodhearted — Kind, generous and altruistic.
- googlewhack — A Google search result consisting of a single hit, in response to a search on two separate words.
- googlewhore — (Internet slang) To promote via Google; in particular, to do so by googlebombing.
- goose flesh — goose bumps.