11-letter words containing t, h, e
- frost heave — an uplift in soil caused by the freezing of internal moisture.
- ftp archive — archive site
- full-length — of standard or customary length: a full-length movie.
- furnishment — (obsolete) The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture.
- furtherance — the act of furthering; promotion; advancement.
- furtherment — The act or process of furthering; furtherance.
- furthermore — moreover; besides; in addition: Furthermore, he left orders not to be disturbed.
- furthermost — most distant: Their house is furthermost on the right.
- furthersome — tending to further or promote; helpful
- game theory — a mathematical theory that deals with strategies for maximizing gains and minimizing losses within prescribed constraints, as the rules of a card game: widely applied in the solution of various decision-making problems, as those of military strategy and business policy.
- gametophore — a part or structure bearing gametangia.
- gametophyte — the sexual form of a plant in the alternation of generations.
- gangsterish — (informal) Gangsterlike.
- gap-toothed — having a noticeable space between two teeth.
- garden path — paved walkway
- garden-path — noting or pertaining to a sentence that is easily parsed incorrectly because its beginning suggests it has an interpretation that it clearly does not have.
- garnishment — Law. a warning, served on a third party to hold, subject to the court's direction, money or property belonging to a debtor who is being sued by a creditor. a summons to a third party to appear in litigation pending between a creditor and debtor.
- gas lighter — device: produces flame
- gat-toothed — gap-toothed.
- gate theory — a theory proposing that neural stimulation beyond a certain threshold level, as by application of an electric current, can overwhelm the ability of the nerve center to sense pain.
- gatecrashed — Simple past tense and past participle of gatecrash.
- gatecrasher — a person who attends or enters a social function without an invitation, a theater without a ticket, etc.
- gay-feather — any of several composite plants of the genus Liatris, especially L. spicata or L. scariosa, having hairy leaves and long clusters of purplish flowers.
- gentileschi — Artemisia [ahr-tuh-mizh-uh,, -mizh-ee-uh;; Italian ahr-te-mee-zyah] /ˌɑr təˈmɪʒ ə,, -ˈmɪʒ i ə;; Italian ˌɑr tɛˈmi zyɑ/ (Show IPA), 1593?–1652? Italian painter.
- gentilhomme — a gentleman
- geoisotherm — isogeotherm.
- geostrophic — of or relating to the balance between the Coriolis force and the horizontal pressure force in the atmosphere.
- geotechnics — the application of science in order to utilize the earth's natural resources in engineering projects
- germ theory — Pathology. the theory that infectious diseases are due to the agency of germs or microorganisms.
- gerontophil — experiencing sexual attraction to old people
- get a laugh — If a person or their comment gets a laugh or raises a laugh, they make the people listening to them laugh.
- get hitched — get married
- get hold of — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- get in with — start to associate with
- get nowhere — make no progress
- get shot of — to get rid of
- get shut of — to get rid of
- get the air — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- get the nod — sb: have permission
- get the pip — to sulk
- get through — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- get with it — (in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
- ghastliness — The state of being ghastly.
- ghetto code — (humour, programming) A particularly inelegant and obviously suboptimal section of code that still meets the original requirements.
- ghettoizing — Present participle of ghettoize.
- ghost dance — a ritual dance intended to establish communion with the dead, especially such a dance as performed by various messianic western American Indian cults in the late 19th century.
- ghost image — ghost (def 8).
- 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.
- ghostliness — of, characteristic of, or resembling a ghost; phantasmal; spectral.