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11-letter words containing o, n, h

  • ghirlandaio — (Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi) 1449–94, Italian painter.
  • 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 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
  • ghostliness — of, characteristic of, or resembling a ghost; phantasmal; spectral.
  • gjallarhorn — Heimdall's horn, used to warn the gods of Ragnarok.
  • glaucophane — a sodium-rich monoclinic mineral of the amphibole family, usually metamorphic.
  • 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.
  • 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 downhill — travel down a slope
  • goatishness — The state or condition of being goatish.
  • godchildren — Plural form of godchild.
  • 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.
  • gonochorism — (biology) The situation in which the individuals of a species are of one of two distinct sexes, and retain that sexuality throughout their lives.
  • gonorrhoeal — Alternative spelling of gonorrheal.
  • 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.
  • graphophone — a phonograph for recording and reproducing sounds on wax records.
  • green heron — green-backed heron.
  • greenhouses — Plural form of greenhouse.
  • grind house — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
  • grind-house — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
  • grouchiness — The characteristic or quality of being grouchy.
  • ground itch — a disease of the skin of the feet, caused by penetration of hookworm larvae, characterized by a blisterlike eruption and itching.
  • ground-fish — bottom-fish.
  • groundcloth — A groundcloth is a piece of waterproof material which you put on the ground to sleep on when you are camping.
  • groundshare — to share the facilities and running costs of a single stadium with another team
  • groundsheet — a waterproof sheet of plastic, canvas, or other durable material spread on the ground, as under a sleeping bag or in a tent, for protection against moisture.
  • growth cone — a flattened area at the end of a growing axon or dendrite, having radiating filopodia and lemellopodia that function as guides for the outgrowth of embryonic nerve fibers.
  • growth fund — a mutual fund that invests primarily in growth stocks.
  • growth ring — annual ring.
  • growthiness — the quality of being growthy
  • gymnanthous — achlamydeous.
  • gymnophobia — An inordinate fear or hatred of being naked, and possibly nudity or nudists and naturists.
  • gymnorhinal — (of a bird) having the nostrils exposed, not covered by feathers.
  • gynecopathy — any disease occurring only in women.
  • habitations — Plural form of habitation.
  • habituation — the act of habituating.
  • hack around — to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often followed by up or down): to hack meat; to hack down trees.
  • haddonfield — a town in SW New Jersey.
  • haemangioma — Alternative spelling of hemangioma.
  • haematoidin — Alternative form of hematoidin.
  • haematozoon — any microorganism, esp a protozoan, that is parasitic in the blood
  • haemocyanin — a blue copper-containing respiratory pigment in crustaceans and molluscs that functions as haemoglobin
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