13-letter words containing h, o, r, s
- flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- fluorochromes — Plural form of fluorochrome.
- foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
- for chrissake — for Christ's sake
- 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.
- for the worse — into a less desirable or inferior state or condition
- forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
- forearm smash — a blow like a punch delivered with the forearm in certain types of wrestling
- foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- foreshortened — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshorten.
- 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.
- fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
- forty-seventh — next after the forty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 47.
- forward slash — a short oblique stroke (/), or slash, especially one used in computer programming or to specify an Internet address or computer filename.
- foster father — a man who takes the place of a father in raising a child.
- foster mother — a woman who takes the place of a mother in raising a child.
- four horsemen — four riders on white, red, black, and pale horses symbolizing pestilence, war, famine, and death, respectively. Rev. 6:2–8.
- fourth estate — the journalistic profession or its members; the press.
- 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-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
- 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.
- 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.
- gallows humor — humor that treats serious, frightening, or painful subject matter in a light or satirical way.
- 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.
- gastrorrhaphy — The suture of a perforation of the stomach.
- george w bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
- get somewhere — to make progress
- get the works — to be the victim of extreme measures
- ghettoblaster — Alternative form of ghetto blaster.
- 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.
- gladiatorship — the work of a gladiator
- global search — a word-processing operation in which a complete computer file or set of files is searched for every occurrence of a particular word or other sequence of characters
- glossographer — a glossator.
- glucochlorose — chloralose.
- go the rounds — If a story, idea, or joke is going the rounds or doing the rounds, a lot of people have heard it and are telling it to other people.
- 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.
- golden shower — a tree, Cassia fistula, of the legume family, native to India, having long, drooping clusters of yellow flowers.
- gonochoristic — Of or pertaining to gonochorism.
- good shepherd — Jesus Christ. John 10:11–14.
- grain sorghum — any of several varieties of sorghum, as durra or milo, having starchy seeds, grown for grain and forage.
- gram's method — a method of staining and distinguishing bacteria, in which a fixed bacterial smear is stained with crystal violet, treated with Gram's solution, decolorized with alcohol, counterstained with safranine, and washed with water.
- grass sorghum — any of several varieties of sorghum, as Sudan grass, grown for pasturage and hay.