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11-letter words containing r, h, a, g

  • draw weight — the measured force, in foot-pounds, stored by an archery bow when fully drawn.
  • dreadnaught — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
  • dreadnought — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
  • dynamograph — a device for registering the quantity of force applied
  • early night — If you have an early night, you go to bed early. If you have a late night, you go to bed late.
  • earth auger — a drill for boring holes in the ground, as to tap springs.
  • earth lodge — a circular, usually dome-shaped dwelling of certain North American Indians, made of posts and beams covered variously with branches, grass, sod, or earth and having a central opening in the roof, a tamped earth floor, and frequently a vestibule.
  • earthmoving — of or relating to earthmovers: earthmoving machinery.
  • eave trough — gutter (def 3).
  • eavestrough — gutter (def 3).
  • encroaching — That encroaches.
  • enthralling — Capturing and holding one's attention; fascinating.
  • epigraphist — A person who studies epigraphy (inscriptions).
  • ergatomorph — an ergatoid ant
  • estranghelo — an archaic, cursive form of the Syriac alphabet
  • ethnography — The scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures.
  • euryphagous — eating a wide variety of foods
  • fair enough — that is reasonable
  • far-sighted — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
  • farnborough — a town in S England, in NE Hampshire: military base, with an aeronautical research centre. Pop: 57 147 (2001)
  • farreaching — Alternative spelling of far-reaching.
  • farthingale — a hoop skirt or framework for expanding a woman's skirt, worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
  • fear-naught — a stout woolen cloth for overcoats.
  • featheredge — an edge that thins out like a feather.
  • ferrography — the analysis of iron in lubricants in order to assess the extent of wear in a machine
  • fifth grade — the fifth year of school, when children are ten or eleven years old
  • figureheads — Plural form of figurehead.
  • filmography — a collection of writings about motion pictures, especially detailed essays dealing with specific films.
  • flexography — a relief printing technique similar to letterpress that employs rubber or soft plastic plates, a simple inking system, and fast-drying inks.
  • foregathers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foregather.
  • forgathered — Simple past tense and past participle of forgather.
  • forge ahead — move forward with determination
  • fothergilla — any of the deciduous shrub species in the witch-hazel family
  • franchising — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • free charge — any electric charge that can be placed on a conductor or on or within a dielectric or that moves freely in space (opposed to polarization charge).
  • freight car — any car for carrying freight.
  • frogmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of frogmarch.
  • gainsharing — a system in which employees are financially rewarded for reducing operating costs and working more efficiently. The reward may or may not be in relation to individual performance
  • 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.
  • gamechanger — A visionary, innovative person who changes the way people think of a situation.
  • gametophore — a part or structure bearing gametangia.
  • gandhinagar — a region in W India, N of the Narmada River.
  • gangsterish — (informal) Gangsterlike.
  • gantt chart — a chart depicting progress in relation to time of projects, tasks, schedules, etc.
  • garden hose — tube for spraying plants with water
  • 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 chamber — an enclosure used for the execution of prisoners by means of a poisonous gas.
  • gas lighter — device: produces flame
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