11-letter words containing r, i, g, h
- free flight — unassisted or unconstrained flight, as the flight of a rocket or missile without guidance or after fuel exhaustion or motor cutoff.
- free weight — a weight used for weightlifting, as a dumbbell, whose motion is not constrained by external apparatus.
- freeholding — Property held in freehold.
- freight car — any car for carrying freight.
- freight ton — ton1 (def 2).
- freight-out — Freight-out is the cost of delivering finished goods to a customer.
- freight-ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- frighteners — Plural form of frightener.
- frightening — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- frightfully — such as to cause fright; dreadful, terrible, or alarming: A frightful howl woke us.
- frog orchid — any of several orchids having greenish flowers thought to resemble small frogs, esp Coeloglossum viride of calcareous turf
- furloughing — Present participle of furlough.
- furnishings — furnishings. furniture, carpeting, etc., for a house or room. articles or accessories of dress: men's furnishings.
- furthcoming — an action raised to recover property which has been arrested in the hands of a third party
- gainsharing — a system in which employees are financially rewarded for reducing operating costs and working more efficiently. The reward may or may not be in relation to individual performance
- gandhinagar — a region in W India, N of the Narmada River.
- gangsterish — (informal) Gangsterlike.
- garnishment — Law. a warning, served on a third party to hold, subject to the court's direction, money or property belonging to a debtor who is being sued by a creditor. a summons to a third party to appear in litigation pending between a creditor and debtor.
- gas lighter — device: produces flame
- gastroliths — Plural form of gastrolith.
- gastrotrich — any of the microscopic, multicellular animals of the class or phylum Gastrotricha, of fresh or salt waters, characterized by bands of cilia on the ventral surface of the bottle-shaped or ribbony body and by a protrusible feeding apparatus at the mouth.
- generalship — skill as commander of a large military force or unit.
- geographies — the science dealing with the areal differentiation of the earth's surface, as shown in the character, arrangement, and interrelations over the world of such elements as climate, elevation, soil, vegetation, population, land use, industries, or states, and of the unit areas formed by the complex of these individual elements.
- geoisotherm — isogeotherm.
- geostrophic — of or relating to the balance between the Coriolis force and the horizontal pressure force in the atmosphere.
- germaphobia — Pathological fear of germs.
- germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
- germophobic — Morbidly afraid of germs.
- gerontophil — experiencing sexual attraction to old people
- get the air — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- ghirlandaio — (Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi) 1449–94, Italian painter.
- 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
- ghost-write — If a book or other piece of writing is ghost-written, it is written by a writer for another person, for example a politician or sportsman, who then publishes it as his or her own work.
- ghostscript — (graphics, tool) The GNU interpreter for PostScript and PDF, with previewers for serval systems and many fonts. Ghostscript was originally written by L. Peter Deutsch <[email protected]> of Aladdin Enterprises. The first public release was v1.0 on 1988-08-11.
- ghostwriter — A person whose job it is to write material for someone else who is the named author.
- girlishness — The quality of being girlish.
- glycyrrhiza — Any legume (such as liquorice) of the genus [Glycyrrhiza]].
- go straight — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- godchildren — Plural form of godchild.
- 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.
- gothic arch — a pointed arch, especially one having only two centers and equal radii.
- grand chain — a figure in formation dances, such as the lancers and Scottish reels, in which couples split up and move around in a circle in opposite directions, passing all other dancers until reaching their original partners
- granolithic — (of concrete) containing fine granite chippings or crushed granite, used to render floors and surfaces.
- graphically — giving a clear and effective picture; vivid: a graphic account of an earthquake.
- graphicness — The quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness.
- graphitized — (chemistry, of carbon) Converted to graphite.
- graphomania — The compulsion to write books.
- grass finch — any of several Australian weaverbirds, especially of the genus Poephila.
- gravisphere — the area in which the gravitational force of a celestial body is predominant.
- green light — traffic signal: go