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14-letter words containing o, r, a, d, e

  • graeffe method — a method, involving the squaring of roots, for approximating the solutions to algebraic equations.
  • grand ole opry — a successful radio show from Nashville, Tenn., first broadcast on Nov. 28, 1925, noted for its playing of and continuing importance to country music.
  • grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • grapple ground — an anchorage, especially for small vessels.
  • graveyard slot — the hours from late night until early morning when the number of people watching television is at its lowest
  • great doxology — Gloria in Excelsis Deo.
  • great red spot — a large, usually reddish gaseous vortex on the surface of Jupiter, about 14,000 by 30,000 km, that drifts about slowly as the planet rotates and has been observed for several hundred years.
  • great-grandson — a grandson of one's son or daughter.
  • greater london — Jack, 1876–1916, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
  • green lead ore — pyromorphite.
  • gregorian mode — church mode.
  • greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
  • groote eylandt — an island in the Gulf of Carpentaria off the coast of NE Australia. 950 sq. mi. (2461 sq. km).
  • ground leakage — Ground leakage is the flow of current from a live conductor to the earth through the insulation.
  • groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
  • grow the beard — (of a TV series) to gain credibility or improve in quality during the course of a series following a specified development
  • guido d'arezzo — (Guido Aretinus"Fra Guittone") c995–1049? Italian monk and music theorist: reformer of musical notation.
  • gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
  • half-smothered — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
  • hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
  • hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • hand over hand — grasping with alternate hands
  • hard-core porn — Hard-core porn is pornography that shows sex in a very detailed way, or shows very violent or unpleasant sex.
  • hardware cloth — galvanized steel wire screen with a mesh usually between 0.25 and 0.5 inches (0.64 and 1.27 cm), used for coarse sieves, animal cages, and the like.
  • hardware store — shop selling DIY or home-improvement supplies
  • harewood house — a mansion near Harrogate in Yorkshire: built 1759–71 by John Carr for the Lascelles family; interior decoration by Robert Adam
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • heads or tails — a gambling game in which a coin is tossed, the winner being the player who guesses which side of the coin will face up when it lands or is caught.
  • headstrongness — The property of being headstrong, stubbornness.
  • heart and soul — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
  • heat conductor — a material or device that conducts heat
  • heavy hydrogen — either of the heavy isotopes of hydrogen, especially deuterium.
  • helicopter dad — a style of child rearing in which an overprotective mother or father discourages a child's independence by being too involved in the child's life: In typical helicopter parenting, a mother or father swoops in at any sign of challenge or discomfort.
  • helicopter pad — landing area
  • hermaphrodites — Plural form of hermaphrodite.
  • hermaphroditic — an individual in which reproductive organs of both sexes are present. Compare pseudohermaphrodite.
  • hermaphroditus — a son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body
  • hither and yon — Hither and thither means in many different directions or places, and in a disorganized way. In American English, the expression hither and yon is sometimes used.
  • holiday resort — self-contained vacation spot
  • homeward bound — going home
  • homework diary — a record of homework that has been set
  • hooded warbler — a wood warbler, Wilsonia citrina, of the U.S., olive-green above, yellow below, and having a black head and throat with a yellow face.
  • hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
  • hors de combat — disabled or injured
  • house of cards — a structure or plan that is insubstantial and subject to imminent collapse, as a structure made by balancing playing cards against each other: The scheme is so overly complicated that it's likely to prove to be just another house of cards.
  • household arts — activities such as sewing, cooking, etc, that are conducted in the running of a household
  • hradec kralove — a town in the N Czech Republic, on the Elbe River: Austrians defeated by Prussians in Battle of Sadowa 1866.
  • hydrocephaloid — resembling hydrocephalus.
  • hydrocephalous — Having a swollen head.
  • hydroextractor — a device that dries things by means of the material to be dried being spun around the device's central axis
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