12-letter words containing r, e, c, h, o, g
- ethnographic — Relating to ethnography.
- for a change — contrary to the norm
- french congo — former name of the People's Republic of the Congo.
- galactophore — a galactophorous duct.
- galactorrhea — an abnormally abundant flow of milk in a lactating woman.
- geochemistry — the science dealing with the chemical changes in and the composition of the earth's crust.
- geographical — of or relating to geography.
- gift voucher — gift certificate.
- global reach — When people talk about the global reach of a company or industry, they mean its ability to have customers in many different parts of the world.
- golden perch — a freshwater food fish, Plectroplites ambiguus, that inhabits inland waters of Australia.
- gospel choir — a choir performing gospel music
- grace hopper — (person) US Navy Rear Admiral Grace Brewster Hopper (1906-12-09 to 1992-01-01), née Grace Brewster Murray. Hopper is believed to have concieved the concept of the compiler with the A-0 in 1952. She also developed the first commercial high-level language, which eventually evolved into COBOL. She worked on the Mark I computer with Howard Aiken and with BINAC in 1949. She is credited with having coined the term "debug", and the adage "it is always easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" (with various wordings), which has been the guiding principle in sysadmin decisions ever since. See also the entries debug and bug. Hopper is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. In 1994, the US Navy named a new ship, the guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper, after her.
- grade school — an elementary school that has its pupils grouped or classified into grades.
- grass hockey — field hockey.
- growth curve — a curve on a graph in which a variable is plotted against time to illustrate the growth of the variable
- haemorrhagic — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of hemorrhagic.
- hagiocracies — Plural form of hagiocracy.
- helicographs — Plural form of helicograph.
- heliographic — a device for signaling by means of a movable mirror that reflects beams of light, especially sunlight, to a distance.
- herpetologic — Alternative form of herpetological.
- hieroglyphic — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
- hierographic — of or relating to hierographs
- high-colored — deep in color; vivid.
- highschooler — (US) A student at a high school.
- horse racing — a contest of speed among horses that either are ridden by jockeys or pull sulkies and their drivers.
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- hydroecology — The study of support systems in wetlands such as the interactions between water and wildlife habitats.
- hyperlogical — reasoning in accordance with the principles of logic, as a person or the mind: logical thinking.
- hypoallergic — Hypoallergenic.
- hysterogenic — inducing hysteria.
- in charge of — having responsibility for
- lexicography — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
- lounge chair — a chair designed for lounging, as an easy chair, chaise longue, or recliner.
- macroetching — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
- moneychanger — a person whose business is the exchange of currency, usually of different countries, at a fixed or official rate.
- myrmecophage — (biology) Anteaters, and other animals chiefly feeding on ants.
- myrmecophagy — Ant-eating.
- necrographer — a person who writes obituaries
- necrophagous — That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
- nonbreaching — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- oceanography — the branch of physical geography dealing with the ocean.
- oligophrenic — less than normal mental development.
- orange march — a parade on Orangemen's day
- orthogenetic — pertaining to or exhibiting orthogenesis.
- overcharging — Present participle of overcharge.
- overreaching — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
- petroglyphic — relating to or having the characteristics of a petroglyph or carving made in rock
- phanerogamic — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
- point charge — an electric charge considered to exist at a single point, and thus having neither area nor volume.
- preschooling — the education of preschool children.