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13-letter words containing s, h, e, r, g, o

  • gastrohepatic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and the liver.
  • gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
  • george w bushBarbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
  • get somewhere — to make progress
  • get the works — to be the victim of extreme measures
  • ghettoblaster — Alternative form of ghetto blaster.
  • ghiordes knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the parallel ends of looped yarn alternate with two threads of warp, producing an uneven pile effect.
  • global search — a word-processing operation in which a complete computer file or set of files is searched for every occurrence of a particular word or other sequence of characters
  • glossographer — a glossator.
  • glucochlorose — chloralose.
  • go the rounds — If a story, idea, or joke is going the rounds or doing the rounds, a lot of people have heard it and are telling it to other people.
  • golden shiner — a small, silvery freshwater minnow, Notemigonus crysoleucas, native to eastern North America and introduced into western North America: often used as live bait in sport fishing.
  • golden shower — a tree, Cassia fistula, of the legume family, native to India, having long, drooping clusters of yellow flowers.
  • good shepherd — Jesus Christ. John 10:11–14.
  • gram's method — a method of staining and distinguishing bacteria, in which a fixed bacterial smear is stained with crystal violet, treated with Gram's solution, decolorized with alcohol, counterstained with safranine, and washed with water.
  • grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
  • 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
  • growth shares — ordinary shares with good prospects of appreciation in yield and value
  • hagiographers — Plural form of hagiographer.
  • hagiographies — Plural form of hagiography.
  • hart's-tongue — a fern, Phyllitis scolopendrium, having long, leathery, wavy-edged leaves.
  • heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
  • heart surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in performing operations on the heart
  • heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
  • hedge sparrow — the dunnock.
  • heresiography — a treatise on heresy.
  • heresiologist — a person who studies or writes about heresies.
  • herpetologist — the branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians.
  • hertogenbosch — 's Hertogenbosch.
  • heterogametes — Plural form of heterogamete.
  • heterogeneous — different in kind; unlike; incongruous.
  • heterogenesis — Also, heterogeny [het-uh-roj-uh-nee] /ˌhɛt əˈrɒdʒ ə ni/ (Show IPA). alternation of generations, especially the alternation of parthenogenetic and sexual generations.
  • heteroglossia — (linguistics) the coexistence of distinct varieties within a single linguistic code.
  • heterozygosis — the state of being a heterozygote.
  • heterozygotes — a hybrid containing genes for two unlike forms of a characteristic, and therefore not breeding true to type.
  • hieroglyphics — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
  • hieroglyphist — a person who studies hieroglyphics; hieroglyphologist.
  • home straight — the section of a racecourse forming the approach to the finish
  • hornswogglers — Plural form of hornswoggler.
  • 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 stinger — a dragonfly.
  • 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.
  • horsewhipping — Present participle of horsewhip.
  • hot gospeller — a person who preaches in a fervent and vocal way, esp in evangelical churches
  • house manager — a business manager responsible for managing a theater and its staff.
  • house surgeon — a surgeon who lives in a hospital in which he or she is on call.
  • 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.
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