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13-letter words containing r, h, g

  • grandfathered — Simple past tense and past participle of grandfather.
  • grandfatherly — of or characteristic of a grandfather.
  • grandmotherly — of or characteristic of a grandmother.
  • grantsmanship — skill in securing grants, as for research, from federal agencies, foundations, or the like.
  • grape harvest — gathering of ripe grapes from the vine
  • graph plotter — plotter
  • graphemically — In terms of or by means of graphemes.
  • graphic algol — (language)   A extension of ALGOL 60 for real-time generation of shaded perspective pictures.
  • graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
  • graphics card — graphics adaptor
  • graphitizable — (chemistry, of carbon) Able to be converted to graphite.
  • graphological — Relating to graphology.
  • grass sorghum — any of several varieties of sorghum, as Sudan grass, grown for pasturage and hay.
  • grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
  • gravity hinge — a hinge closing automatically by means of gravity.
  • great khingan — a mountain range in NE China: highest peak, 5000 feet (1525 meters).
  • great-hearted — having or showing a generous heart; magnanimous.
  • green channel — the route followed in passing through customs in an airport, etc by passengers claiming to have no dutiable goods to declare
  • green machine — A computer or peripheral device that has been designed and built to military specifications for field equipment (that is, to withstand mechanical shock, extremes of temperature and humidity, and so forth). Comes from the olive-drab "uniform" paint used for military equipment.
  • gresham's law — the tendency of the inferior of two forms of currency to circulate more freely than, or to the exclusion of, the superior, because of the hoarding of the latter.
  • grey-thompson — Tanni (Carys Davina) Baroness. born 1969, Welsh wheelchair athlete; won eleven gold medals for Britain in wheelchair racing in the Paralympic Games (1988–2004); a crossbench peer in the House of Lords since 2010
  • ground cherry — Also called husk tomato. any of several plants belonging to the genus Physalis, of the nightshade family, the several species bearing an edible berry enclosed in an enlarged calyx.
  • groundhog day — February 2, in most parts of the U.S., the day on which, according to legend, the groundhog first emerges from hibernation. If it is a sunny day and the groundhog sees its shadow, six more weeks of wintry weather are predicted.
  • group therapy — psychotherapy in which a number of patients discuss their problems together, usually under the leadership of a therapist, using shared knowledge and experiences to provide constructive feedback about maladaptive behavior.
  • growth factor — any of various proteins that promote the growth, organization, and maintenance of cells and tissues.
  • growth market — a rapidly expanding market
  • growth shares — ordinary shares with good prospects of appreciation in yield and value
  • gunters-chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • gut-wrenching — involving great distress or anguish; agonizing: a gut-wrenching decision.
  • guttersnipish — Resembling or characteristic of a guttersnipe.
  • gynandromorph — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
  • habit-forming — tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence: habit-forming drugs.
  • hack together — (jargon)   To throw something together so it will work. Unlike "kluge together" or "cruft together", this does not necessarily have negative connotations.
  • haemorrhaging — Present participle of haemorrhage.
  • hagiographers — Plural form of hagiographer.
  • hagiographies — Plural form of hagiography.
  • hairdressings — Plural form of hairdressing.
  • hairsplitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
  • half mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • half-integral — noting or pertaining to a fractional number obtained by dividing an odd integer by two, as 1/2.
  • half-mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • hammond organ — an electric organ with two keyboards, electronic tone generation, and a wide variety of tone colours: invented in 1934
  • hand-wringing — a physical expression of concern, distress, or guilt.
  • hang in there — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
  • hang together — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
  • hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
  • hard standing — a hard-surfaced area on which heavy vehicles or airplanes can be parked.
  • hard-drinking — If you describe someone as a hard-drinking person, you mean that they frequently drink large quantities of alcohol.
  • harlequin bug — a black stink bug, Murgantia histrionica, having red and yellow markings, that feeds on cabbages and other cruciferous plants.
  • hart's-tongue — a fern, Phyllitis scolopendrium, having long, leathery, wavy-edged leaves.
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