13-letter words containing n, o, r, i, g
- group annuity — a plan in which the members of a group, usually employees of the same company, receive annuities upon retirement.
- group captain — an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a wing commander but junior to an air commodore in the RAF and certain other air forces
- growing pains — If a person or organization suffers from growing pains, they experience temporary difficulties and problems at the beginning of a particular stage of development.
- growing point — the undifferentiated end of a root, shoot, or vegetative axis consisting of a single cell or group of cells that divide to form primary meristematic tissue.
- gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
- gynecocracies — Plural form of gynecocracy.
- gyromagnetism — the condition or state of being gyromagnetic
- habit-forming — tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence: habit-forming drugs.
- haemorrhaging — Present participle of haemorrhage.
- half mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
- half-mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
- hatemongering — The behaviour of a hatemonger; the spreading of hatred.
- heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
- heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
- heating power — power that can be used to heat something
- heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
- heliographing — Present participle of heliograph.
- hemp agrimony — a European composite plant, Eupatorium cannabinum, having dull purplish flowers.
- herringchoker — a native or resident of any of the Maritime Provinces but especially of New Brunswick.
- heterogeneity — the quality or state of being heterogeneous; composition from dissimilar parts; disparateness.
- heterogenesis — Also, heterogeny [het-uh-roj-uh-nee] /ˌhɛt əˈrɒdʒ ə ni/ (Show IPA). alternation of generations, especially the alternation of parthenogenetic and sexual generations.
- heterogenetic — of, relating to, or characterized by heterogenesis.
- histogramming — (mathematics) The construction of histograms.
- historicizing — Present participle of historicize.
- honor killing — the killing of a relative, especially a female relative, as retribution for the perceived dishonoring of the family, as dictated or sanctioned by some cultures and religions.
- honour bright — an exclamation pledging honour
- hornswoggling — Present participle of hornswoggle.
- horse gentian — any weedy North American plant of the genus Triosteum, of the honeysuckle family, especially T. perfoliatum, having stalkless leaves and purplish-brown flowers and bearing orange fruits.
- horse stinger — a dragonfly.
- horse trading — the act or fact of conducting a shrewd exchange or engaging in a horse trade; bargaining.
- horse-trading — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
- horsewhipping — Present participle of horsewhip.
- house-raising — a gathering of persons in a rural community to help one of its members build a house.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- idiot strings — strings attached to children's mittens to prevent the wearer from losing them