14-letter words containing s, e, r, o, a
- governableness — The state of being governable.
- grade crossing — an intersection of a railroad track and another track, a road, etc., at the same level.
- grade-schooler — a pupil in a grade school.
- grangerisation — The act of illustrating a book with pictures taken from published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
- gratuitousness — The state or characteristic of being gratuitous.
- graveyard slot — the hours from late night until early morning when the number of people watching television is at its lowest
- grease remover — a substance that removes grease
- great red spot — a large, usually reddish gaseous vortex on the surface of Jupiter, about 14,000 by 30,000 km, that drifts about slowly as the planet rotates and has been observed for several hundred years.
- great-grandson — a grandson of one's son or daughter.
- greenhouse gas — any of the gases whose absorption of solar radiation is responsible for the greenhouse effect, including carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, and the fluorocarbons.
- gregariousness — fond of the company of others; sociable.
- greisenization — the process whereby granite is converted to greisen
- grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
- growing season — The growing season in a particular country or area is the period in each year when the weather and temperature is right for plants and crops to grow.
- gyrostabiliser — (British spelling) Alternative form of gyrostabilizer.
- gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
- gyrostabilizer — a device for stabilizing a seagoing vessel by counteracting its rolling motion from side to side, consisting essentially of a rotating gyroscope weighing about 1 percent of the displacement of the vessel.
- hair extension — attached length of hair
- half seas over — of, relating to, or adapted for use at sea.
- half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
- half-note rest — a pause of half a semibreve
- half-seas over — drunk; intoxicated; inebriated.
- half-smothered — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
- hardware store — shop selling DIY or home-improvement supplies
- harewood house — a mansion near Harrogate in Yorkshire: built 1759–71 by John Carr for the Lascelles family; interior decoration by Robert Adam
- harmoniousness — The characteristic of being harmonious.
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- heads or tails — a gambling game in which a coin is tossed, the winner being the player who guesses which side of the coin will face up when it lands or is caught.
- headstrongness — The property of being headstrong, stubbornness.
- healing powers — beneficial qualities
- health tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
- health visitor — In Britain, a health visitor is a nurse whose job is to visit people in their homes and offer advice on matters such as how to look after very young babies or people with physical disabilities.
- heart and soul — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- heart of stone — lack of compassion
- heart-stopping — A heart-stopping moment is one that makes you anxious or frightened because it seems that something bad is likely to happen.
- heat reservoir — a hypothetical body of infinitely large mass capable of absorbing or rejecting unlimited quantities of heat without undergoing appreciable changes in temperature, pressure, or density.
- heath robinson — (of a mechanical device) absurdly complicated in design and having a simple function
- hello, sailor! — (jargon) Occasional West Coast equivalent of hello, world; seems to have originated at SAIL, later associated with the game Zork (which also included "hello, aviator" and "hello, implementor"). Originally from the traditional hooker's greeting to a swabbie fresh off the boat, of course.
- hemerocallises — Plural form of hemerocallis.
- hepatopancreas — a large gland of shrimps, lobsters, and crabs that combines the functions of a liver and pancreas.
- herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
- heresiographer — a person who writes about heresy
- hermaphrodites — Plural form of hermaphrodite.
- hermaphroditus — a son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body
- hero's formula — the formula for the area of a triangle when the sides are given: for a triangle with sides a, b, and c, the area is equal to , where s is equal to one half the perimeter of the triangle.
- heterographies — Plural form of heterography.
- heterokaryosis — condition in which a binucleate or multinucleate cell contains genetically dissimilar nuclei.