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13-letter words containing h, o, i

  • foot-in-mouth — (of a statement) inappropriate, insensitive, or imprudent.
  • for chrissake — for Christ's sake
  • for one thing — the first reason is
  • for the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
  • 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
  • fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
  • 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°.
  • fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
  • 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.
  • french polish — French polish is a type of varnish which is painted onto wood so that the wood has a hard shiny surface.
  • french window — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
  • french-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
  • friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
  • 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.
  • frobisher bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in NE Canada, in the SE coast of Baffin Island
  • gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
  • galactic halo — a spheroidal aggregation of globular clusters, individual stars, dust, and gas that surrounds the Galaxy
  • galah session — an occasion on which people from remote areas converse with each other by radio
  • 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.
  • genethlialogy — the science of calculating positions of the heavenly bodies on nativities.
  • genetotrophic — pertaining to nutrition and genetics
  • geochemically — In a geochemical manner.
  • geohydrologic — relating to geohydrology
  • geophysically — In a geophysical manner; in terms of geophysics.
  • 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.
  • ghettoization — The process of becoming a ghetto, an isolated and underprivileged urban area.
  • 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.
  • ghost fishing — the continued trapping and killing of marine life by a discarded fishing net floating at sea
  • giant hogweed — a tall plant, Heracleum mantegazzianum, of the parsley family, native to Russia and now naturalized in the U.S., having very large leaves and broad, white flower heads somewhat resembling Queen Anne's lace: can cause an allergic rash when touched by susceptible persons.
  • gilmore, john — John Gilmore
  • give birth to — an act or instance of being born: the day of his birth.
  • give mouth to — to express in speech; say
  • glacial epoch — Also called glacial period, ice age. the geologically recent Pleistocene Epoch, during which much of the Northern Hemisphere was covered by great ice sheets.
  • gladiatorship — the work of a gladiator
  • globe thistle — any of various Old World, thistlelike, composite plants of the genus Echinops, having dense heads of tubular blue or white flowers.
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