11-letter words containing s, h, o, r
- forty hours — a Roman Catholic devotion in which the Blessed Sacrament is exposed for veneration for 40 hours by the churches of a diocese sequentially for two-day periods.
- forty-sixth — next after the forty-fifth; being the ordinal number for 46.
- foster home — a household in which a child is raised by someone other than its natural or adoptive parent.
- foundership — The condition of having founded something.
- fourchettes — Plural form of fourchette.
- fourflusher — a person who makes false or pretentious claims; bluffer.
- fourteenths — Plural form of fourteenth.
- frame house — a house constructed with a skeleton framework of timber, as the ordinary wooden house.
- free school — a privately run school organized as an alternative to the traditional public or private school, usually following a highly flexible approach to the curriculum and teaching methods.
- freeholders — Plural form of freeholder.
- french rose — Provence rose.
- froghoppers — Plural form of froghopper.
- frost heave — an uplift in soil caused by the freezing of internal moisture.
- fundholders — Plural form of fundholder.
- furthermost — most distant: Their house is furthermost on the right.
- furthersome — tending to further or promote; helpful
- garden hose — tube for spraying plants with water
- gastroliths — Plural form of gastrolith.
- gastropathy — (pathology) Any disease of the stomach.
- gastrosophy — the science or art of good eating
- 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.
- geographers — Plural form of geographer.
- 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.
- george bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
- geostrophic — of or relating to the balance between the Coriolis force and the horizontal pressure force in the atmosphere.
- ghost story — a tale in which such elements as ghostly visitations and supernatural intervention are used to further the plot and a chilling, suspenseful atmosphere.
- 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.
- ghostbuster — A person who claims to be able to banish ghosts and poltergeists.
- 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.
- go straight — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- goldthreads — Plural form of goldthread.
- 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.
- gopherspace — (networking) The sum of all files that can be reached using gopher.
- gramophones — Plural form of gramophone.
- grass cloth — a cloth made from plant fibres, such as jute or hemp
- grasshopper — any of numerous herbivorous, orthopterous insects, especially of the families Acrididae and Tettigoniidae, having the hind legs adapted for leaping and having chewing mouth parts, some species being highly destructive to vegetation. Compare locust (def 1), long-horned grasshopper.
- greenhouses — Plural form of greenhouse.
- grind house — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- grind-house — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- groatsworth — the amount that is, or may be, bought or sold for a groat
- grouchiness — The characteristic or quality of being grouchy.
- ground-fish — bottom-fish.
- groundshare — to share the facilities and running costs of a single stadium with another team
- groundsheet — a waterproof sheet of plastic, canvas, or other durable material spread on the ground, as under a sleeping bag or in a tent, for protection against moisture.
- growthiness — the quality of being growthy
- guardhouses — Plural form of guardhouse.
- hadrosaurid — (zoology) Any of the family Hadrosauridae of duck-billed dinosaurs; a hadrosaur.