13-letter words containing s, a, g, h, r
- grantsmanship — skill in securing grants, as for research, from federal agencies, foundations, or the like.
- grape harvest — gathering of ripe grapes from the vine
- graphics card — graphics adaptor
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- hagiographers — Plural form of hagiographer.
- hagiographies — Plural form of hagiography.
- hairdressings — Plural form of hairdressing.
- hairsplitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
- 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.
- hart's-tongue — a fern, Phyllitis scolopendrium, having long, leathery, wavy-edged leaves.
- hazard lights — Usually, hazard lights. an indicator light on a vehicle that flashes to warn that it is unexpectedly slowing down, reversing, or not moving.
- head register — the high register of the human voice.
- heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
- heart massage — rhythmic manual compression of the sternum or heart to restore normal heartbeat, as after cardiac arrest.
- heart surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in performing operations on the heart
- heart surgery — operation to treat cardiac problems
- heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
- hedge sparrow — the dunnock.
- hellgrammites — Plural form of hellgrammite (Alternative spelling of hellgramites).
- heresiography — a treatise on heresy.
- heritage site — a historical site, a building, or an area of the unspoilt natural environment, considered to be important to a country or area's heritage
- heterogametes — Plural form of heterogamete.
- heteroglossia — (linguistics) the coexistence of distinct varieties within a single linguistic code.
- histaminergic — releasing histamine
- histogramming — (mathematics) The construction of histograms.
- home straight — the section of a racecourse forming the approach to the finish
- horse gentian — any weedy North American plant of the genus Triosteum, of the honeysuckle family, especially T. perfoliatum, having stalkless leaves and purplish-brown flowers and bearing orange fruits.
- horse trading — the act or fact of conducting a shrewd exchange or engaging in a horse trade; bargaining.
- horse-trading — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
- house manager — a business manager responsible for managing a theater and its staff.
- house-raising — a gathering of persons in a rural community to help one of its members build a house.
- house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- housetraining — Present participle of housetrain.
- housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
- housing start — an instance of beginning the construction of a dwelling.
- hypermegasoma — gigantism.
- iconographies — Plural form of iconography.
- jack-the-rags — a rag-and-bone man
- john o'groats — the northern tip of Scotland, near Duncansby Head, NE Caithness, traditionally thought of as the northernmost point of Britain: from Land's End to John o'Groat's House.
- johnson grass — a sorghum, Sorghum halepense, that spreads by creeping rhizomes, grown for fodder.
- leather goods — products made of animal skin
- loan-sharking — the practice of lending money at exorbitant or illegal interest rates
- losing hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
- magnetographs — Plural form of magnetograph.