14-letter words containing e, v, n, h
- haven't a clue — If you haven't a clue about something, you do not know anything about it or you have no idea what to do about it.
- heat-sensitive — responding to heat or to changes in temperature
- heaven help sb — You say 'Heaven help someone' when you are worried that something bad is going to happen to them, often because you disapprove of what they are doing or the way they are behaving.
- heavy hydrogen — either of the heavy isotopes of hydrogen, especially deuterium.
- heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
- heavy nitrogen — the stable isotope of nitrogen having a mass number of 15.
- hendersonville — a city in S Tennessee.
- hertzian waves — radio waves or other electromagnetic radiation resulting from the oscillations of electricity in a conductor
- high-achieving — (of a person) dynamic, ambitious, and successful
- horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
- hungry viewkit — (operating system, library) A C++ class library for developing Motif application programs (although this restriction will be lifted once LessTif is finished). It follows the API of the Iris(tm) ViewKit, put out by SGI. The Hungry ViewKit is a superset of the Iris ViewKit, so any code developed for the Iris version will work with the Hungry version, but possibly not vice versa.
- hyper-vigilant — keenly watchful to detect danger; wary: a vigilant sentry.
- hypersensitive — excessively sensitive: to be hypersensitive to criticism.
- hyperventilate — to be afflicted with hyperventilation; breathe abnormally fast and deep.
- hypervigilance — state or quality of being vigilant; watchfulness: Vigilance is required in the event of treachery.
- hypoventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hypoventilate.
- impoverishment — to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war.
- inapprehensive — not apprehensive (often followed by of).
- inhabitiveness — the disposition to remain in one place; the inclination not to leave home
- interbehaviour — interaction between multiple individuals
- inverted chord — a chord in which the notes are transposed such that the root, originally in the bass, is placed in an upper part.
- invisible hand — (in the economics of Adam Smith) an unseen force or mechanism that guides individuals to unwittingly benefit society through the pursuit of their private interests.
- involute teeth — (in gears) teeth having a profile that is the involute of a circle.
- john davenport — John, 1597–1670, Puritan clergyman: one of the founders of New Haven.
- kenilworth ivy — a European climbing vine, Cymbalaria muralis, of the figwort family, having irregularly lobed leaves and small, lilac-blue flowers.
- kentish plover — Charadrius alexandrinus, a small wading bird belonging to the plover family, breeding in the tropics and subtropics; it is white and greyish-brown, with black legs and bill
- launch vehicle — Aerospace. a rocket used to launch a spacecraft or satellite into orbit or a space probe into space.
- liver chestnut — chestnut (def 9).
- mechanicsville — a village in E Virginia, near Richmond: Civil War battle 1862.
- never mind sth — You use never mind after a statement, often a negative one, to indicate that the statement is even more true of the person, thing, or situation that you are going to mention next.
- new haven stem — a straight stem for flatbottomed boats in which the ends of the side planking are mitered and covered with a sheet of metal, the stem piece being wholly inside.
- ninety-seventh — next after the ninety-sixth; being the ordinal number for 97.
- nizhnevartovsk — a city in W central Russia, an oil and gas center on the Ob River.
- non-exhaustive — exhausting a subject, topic, etc.; comprehensive; thorough: He published an exhaustive study of Greek vases.
- nonachievement — Something that does not achieve the intended goal.
- nonbehavioural — not related to or concerned with behaviour
- northern dvina — Also called Western Dvina. Latvian Daugava. a river rising in the Valdai Hills in the W Russian Federation, flowing W through Byelorussia (Belarus) and Latvia to the Baltic Sea at Riga. About 640 miles (1030) long.
- odd-even check — parity check.
- on the average — a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean: Her golf average is in the 90s. My average in science has gone from B to C this semester.
- on the improve — improving
- on the viretot — in a rush
- over the fence — unreasonable, unfair, or unjust
- overenthusiasm — absorbing or controlling possession of the mind by any interest or pursuit; lively interest: He shows marked enthusiasm for his studies.
- overhomogenize — to homogenize excessively
- overnight stay — in hospital or hotel
- overwhelmingly — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
- pavement light — a windowlike structure set in a pavement or the like to illuminate areas beneath, consisting of thick glass blocks set in a metal frame.
- photoengraving — a photographic process of preparing printing plates for letterpress printing.
- photoinductive — of, relating to, or being able to undergo photoinduction
- photosensitive — sensitive to light or similar radiation.