14-letter words containing s, h, o, e
- for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
- for the use of — If something is for the use of a particular person or group of people, it is for that person or group to use.
- forehandedness — Quality of being forehanded.
- foreshortening — Fine Arts. to reduce or distort (parts of a represented object that are not parallel to the picture plane) in order to convey the illusion of three-dimensional space as perceived by the human eye: often done according to the rules of perspective.
- formal methods — (mathematics, specification) Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
- forthrightness — The characteristic or quality of being forthright.
- fortysomething — A person whose age is between forty and forty-nine years, inclusive; someone in his or her forties.
- foster brother — a boy brought up with another child of different parents.
- four-eyed fish — a small, surface-swimming fish, Anableps anableps, inhabiting shallow, muddy streams of Mexico and Central America, having each eye divided, with the upper half adapted for seeing in air and the lower half for seeing in water.
- frasch process — a method of mining sulfur by pumping superheated water down into the deposit, thereby melting it so that it can be pumped to the surface.
- free cash flow — Free cash flow is revenue of a business that is available to spend.
- french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
- fresh out (of) — having just sold or used up the last one or part (of)
- fringed orchis — any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip.
- from the first — From the first means ever since something started.
- front of house — restaurant
- full-fashioned — knitted to conform to the shape of a body part, as of the foot or leg: full-fashioned hosiery.
- gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
- game show host — a broadcaster who reads the questions or conducts a game show
- garrison house — a style of early New England house in which the second floor projects beyond the first.
- geohydrologist — a person who studies geohydrology
- george hw bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
- geosynchronous — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
- get hold of sb — If you get hold of someone, you manage to contact them.
- get rid of sth — When you get rid of something that you do not want or do not like, you take action so that you no longer have it or suffer from it.
- ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
- ghost prisoner — a prisoner, esp one held in US military captivity, whose detention is not publicly acknowledged
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
- go easy on sth — If you tell someone to go easy on something, you are telling them to use only a small amount of it.
- go on the swag — to become a tramp
- go pear-shaped — If a situation goes pear-shaped, bad things start happening.
- go to the dogs — a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
- golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
- golden thistle — Spanish oyster plant.
- goodfellowship — cheerful company
- gouda (cheese) — a mild, semisoft to hard cheese similar to Edam and sometimes coated with red wax
- grade-schooler — a pupil in a grade school.
- 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.
- guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
- gymslip mother — a girl of school age who has become a mother
- gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
- h.g.j. moseley — Henry Gwyn Jeffreys [gwin] /gwɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1915, English physicist: pioneer in x-ray spectroscopy.
- haematogenesis — (physiology) The origin and development of blood.
- haematophagous — (of certain animals) feeding on blood
- haematopoiesis — Alternative spelling of hematopoiesis.
- hair extension — attached length of hair
- hale telescope — the 200-inch (508-cm) reflector at the Palomar Observatory.
- 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