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16-letter words containing a, h, e, v

  • over the transom — by unsolicited submission, as to a publisher
  • overenthusiastic — full of or characterized by enthusiasm; ardent: He seems very enthusiastic about his role in the play.
  • overhead railway — elevated railroad.
  • peruvian rhatany — See under rhatany (def 1).
  • plutarch's lives — (Parallel Lives) a collection (a.d. 105–15) by Plutarch of short biographies of the leading political figures of ancient Greece and Rome.
  • pyruvic aldehyde — a yellow, liquid compound, C 3 H 4 O 2 , containing both an aldehyde and a ketone group, usually obtained in a polymeric form: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • reap the harvest — If you reap the harvest, you benefit or suffer from the results of your past actions or of someone else's past actions.
  • rear-wheel drive — a layout in motor vehicles which places the engine at the front and the driven wheels at the rear
  • reverse a charge — If you reverse a charge on a credit card, you put the amount you have charged back into the credit card account.
  • right-hand drive — A right-hand drive vehicle has its steering wheel on the right side. It is designed to be driven in countries such as Britain, Japan, and Australia where people drive on the left side of the road.
  • scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
  • shaker and mover — mover and shaker
  • sheet-web weaver — any of numerous spiders of the family Linyphiidae, characterized by a closely woven, sheetlike web.
  • shoemaker-levy 9 — a comet that was captured into an orbit around Jupiter and later broke up, the fragments colliding with Jupiter in July 1995
  • shopping village — a shopping centre that designed to look like a village
  • south vietnamese — of or relating to the former South Vietnam (now part of Vietnam) or its inhabitants
  • splanchnic nerve — Anatomy. any of several nerves to the viscera and blood vessels of the chest and pelvic areas.
  • superheavyweight — an amateur boxer weighing more than 91 kg
  • surveyor's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • swedish vallhund — a small sturdy dog of a Swedish breed with a long body and pricked pointed ears
  • thaddeus stevens — Alfred, 1817–75, English painter and sculptor.
  • the beaver state — a name for the state of Oregon
  • the devil to pay — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
  • the heavens open — If the heavens open, it suddenly starts raining very heavily.
  • the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
  • the noes have it — there is a majority of votes in the negative
  • the silver state — the nickname of the US state of Nevada, which comes from the large amount of silver discovered and mined there
  • the unobservable — something that cannot be observed
  • the vienna union — an international conference of socialists who came together in Vienna in 1921 in an attempt to reconstruct a united International by offering an alternative to the right-wing remnant of the Second International and to the Comintern: merged into the Labour and Socialist International in 1923
  • thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
  • thick as thieves — very close friends
  • traveler's check — a check issued in any of various denominations by a bank, travel agency, etc., that is signed by the purchaser upon purchase and again, in the presence of the payee, when cashing the check or using it to pay for goods or services.
  • underpitch vault — a construction having a central vault intersected by vaults of lower pitch.
  • valet de chambre — valet (def 1).
  • vapor channeling — Vapor channeling exists when vapor flow is distributed in an unequal way in a distillation vessel or stage.
  • vauxhall gardens — a public garden at Vauxhall, laid out in 1661; a fashionable meeting place and site of lavish entertainments. Closed in 1859
  • ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
  • verbal diarrhoea — a tendency to speak at excessive length
  • visiting teacher — a teacher in a public school system, assigned to give home instruction to sick or disabled pupils.
  • vitamin-enriched — having had vitamins added
  • voluntary helper — a person who aids or assists in a specified function of one's own accord and without compulsion or promise of remuneration
  • weather advisory — advisory (def 5).
  • weighted average — a mean that is computed with extra weight given to one or more elements of the sample.
  • whatever sb does — You say whatever you do when giving advice or warning someone about something.
  • with a vengeance — an act or opportunity of inflicting such trouble: to take one's vengeance.
  • xaverian brother — a member of a congregation of Roman Catholic laymen bound by simple vows and dedicated to education.
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