15-letter words containing r, h, o, e, a
- false hellebore — any of various plants belonging to the genus Veratrum, of the lily family, especially a North American species, V. viride, which has clusters of yellowish-green flowers and is the source of substances used in certain medicines and insecticides.
- federal holiday — a day which is a national holiday at the behest of the Federal Government
- fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
- five-star hotel — a top-quality hotel offering exceptional luxury
- flavor enhancer — a substance added to food in order to enhance or intensify its flavor: Salt is a common flavor enhancer.
- floating charge — an unsecured charge on the assets of an enterprise that allows such assets to be used commercially until the enterprise ceases to operate or the creditor intervenes to demand collateral
- fluorochemicals — Plural form of fluorochemical.
- fluorophosphate — a salt or ester of a fluorophosphoric acid.
- for that matter — the substance or substances of which any physical object consists or is composed: the matter of which the earth is made.
- for the sake of — for the good of
- for their pains — You say that something was all you got for your pains when you are mentioning the disappointing result of situation into which you put a lot of work or effort.
- forecastle head — the extreme fore part of a forecastle superstructure.
- forehand volley — a type of forehand shot played in tennis
- forward echelon — (in a military operation) the troops and officers in a combat zone or in a position to engage the enemy.
- foster daughter — a girl raised like one's own daughter, though not such by birth or adoption.
- founding father — The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
- franz joseph ii — 1906–1989, prince of Liechtenstein 1938–89.
- free atmosphere — the part of the atmosphere that lies above the frictional influence of the earth's surface.
- free throw lane — the rectangular area, 19 feet (5.7 meters) long and usually 12 or 16 feet (3.6 m or 4.8 meters) wide, extending from the end line behind each backboard to the foul line and along the sides of which players line up during a foul shot.
- french marigold — a composite plant, Tagetes patula, of Mexico, having yellow flowers with red markings.
- french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo
- fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
- gas thermometer — a device for measuring temperature by observing the change in either pressure or volume of an enclosed gas.
- general holiday — a public holiday
- geodemographics — the study and grouping of the people in a geographical area according to socioeconomic criteria, esp for market research
- george marshall — Alfred, 1842–1924, English economist.
- geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
- get outta here! — go away!
- globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
- go by the board — If something goes by the board, it is rejected or ignored, or is no longer possible.
- godfather offer — a takeover bid pitched so high that the management of the target company is unable to dissuade shareholders from accepting it
- golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
- golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
- goodheartedness — The quality of being goodhearted.
- graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
- grandparenthood — The state of being a grandparent.
- grapes of wrath — a novel (1939) by John Steinbeck.
- graph reduction — A technique invented by Chris Wadsworth where an expression is represented as a directed graph (usually drawn as an inverted tree). Each node represents a function call and its subtrees represent the arguments to that function. Subtrees are replaced by the expansion or value of the expression they represent. This is repeated until the tree has been reduced to a value with no more function calls (a normal form). In contrast to string reduction, graph reduction has the advantage that common subexpressions are represented as pointers to a single instance of the expression which is only reduced once. It is the most commonly used technique for implementing lazy evaluation.
- grasshopper pie — a custardlike pie, flavored and colored with green crème de menthe and served in a graham-cracker crust.
- great south bay — an Atlantic Ocean inlet, between the S shore of Long Island and Fire Island and other barrier islands. 45 miles (72 km) long.
- greenham common — a village in West Berkshire unitary authority, Berkshire; site of a US cruise missile base, and, from 1981, a camp of women protesters against nuclear weapons; although the base had closed by 1991 a small number of women remained until 2000
- gregorian chant — the plain song or cantus firmus used in the ritual of the Roman Catholic Church.
- group therapist — a psychotherapist who conducts group therapy
- haematachometer — (dated) An apparatus for measuring the velocity of the blood.
- haemoglobinuria — the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
- haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
- hair extensions — synthetic or human hair attached to the hair on someone's head to give the appearance of longer hair
- hair hygrometer — a hygrometer actuated by the changes in length of a strand of human hair brought about by changes in the relative humidity.
- hair of the dog — an alcoholic drink taken as an antidote to a hangover
- half-round file — a file having a semicircular cross-section