12-letter words containing a, h, e, v
- java archive — (file format, filename extension) (jar) A compressed archive file containing Java class files, filename extension: ".jar". The Java Development Kit contains a tool called "jar" for creating .jar files, similar to the standard Unix tar command. As well as archiving and compressing the Java class files, it also inserts a "manifest" file which can contain information about the class files, such as a digital signature. Combining class files into a single archive file makes it possible to download them in a single HTTP transaction. This, and the compression, speeds up execution of Java programs delivered via the Internet. (2001}-02-03)
- javelin fish — a fish of the genus Pomadasys of semitropical Australian seas with a long spine on its anal fin
- katharevousa — The purist form of modern Greek used in traditional literary writing, as opposed to the form that is spoken and used in everyday writing (called demotic).
- leave behind — fail to bring
- level-headed — having common sense and sound judgment; sensible.
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- love handles — fat midriff
- machiavelian — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
- malvern hill — a plateau in E Virginia, SE of Richmond: battle 1862.
- michael viii — surnamed Palaeologus (ˈpælɪəˌləʊɡəs). 1224–82, Byzantine emperor (1259–82); founder of the Palaeologan dynasty. His reign saw the recovery of Constantinople from the Latins (1261) and the reunion (1274) of the Greek and Roman churches
- misbehaviour — (British) alternative spelling of misbehavior.
- non-achiever — a person who consistently fails to achieve, esp academically
- nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
- olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.
- only have to — If you say you only have to do one thing in order to achieve or prove a second thing, you are emphasizing how easily the second thing can be achieved or proved.
- over-fraught — Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
- over-the-air — of or relating to any means of broadcast transmission.
- overachieved — Simple past tense and past participle of overachieve.
- overachiever — to perform, especially academically, above the potential indicated by tests of one's mental ability or aptitude.
- overcharging — Present participle of overcharge.
- overemphasis — excessive or undue emphasis.
- overemphatic — excessive or undue emphasis.
- overpurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- overrashness — the act of being overrash
- overreaching — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
- pave the way — be a pioneer
- petach tikva — a city in W Israel, NE of Tel Aviv.
- photoengrave — to make a photoengraving of.
- photogravure — any of various processes, based on photography, by which an intaglio engraving is formed on a metal plate, from which ink reproductions are made.
- phrasal verb — a combination of verb and one or more adverbial or prepositional particles, as catch on, take off, bring up, or put up with, functioning as a single semantic unit and often having an idiomatic meaning that could not be predicted from the meanings of the individual parts.
- post-harvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- psychoactive — of or relating to a substance having a profound or significant effect on mental processes: a psychoactive drug.
- raven-haired — with glossy deep black hair
- save the day — solve a problem for sb
- shavano peak — a mountain in central Colorado, in the S Sawatch Range, in the Rocky Mountains. 14,229 feet (4337 meters).
- shevardnadze — Eduard A [ed-werd;; Russian ed-wahrt] /ˈɛd wərd;; Russian ɛdˈwɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1928–2014, Soviet foreign minister 1985–91; president of his native Georgian Republic 1995–2003.
- shovel-ready — of or relating to a construction project that is ready to start immediately
- sivapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene primates of Asia that resemble the modern orangutan.
- stakhanovite — a worker in the Soviet Union who regularly surpassed production quotas and was specially honored and rewarded.
- steam shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
- steam-shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
- swivel chair — a chair whose seat turns around horizontally on a swivel.
- thames river — a river in S England, flowing E through London to the North Sea. 209 miles (336 km) long.
- the bereaved — the survivors of a person who has died recently
- the devonian — the Devonian period or rock system
- the nativity — the birth of Jesus
- the new wave — a movement in the French cinema of the 1960s, led by such directors as Godard, Truffaut, and Resnais, characterized by a fluid use of the camera and an abandonment of traditional editing techniques
- the varletry — rabble; mob
- the-overcoat — a short story (1842) by Gogol.
- three-valued — of or relating to propositions having a value other than truth or falsity.