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14-letter words containing e, v, n, h

  • relieving arch — discharging arch.
  • rhine province — a former province in W Germany, mostly W of the Rhine: now divided between Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine–Westphalia.
  • right reverend — an official form of address for abbots, abbesses, Anglican bishops, and other prelates.
  • rose of heaven — a plant, Lychnis coeli-rosa, of the pink family, native to the Mediterranean region, having solitary terminal, rose-pink flowers.
  • saphenous vein — either of two large veins near the surface of the foot, leg, and thigh, one on the inner side and the other on the outer and posterior sides.
  • scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
  • servant church — the attitude or practices of a church whose avowed purpose is to serve the world.
  • servomechanism — an electronic control system in which a hydraulic, pneumatic, or other type of controlling mechanism is actuated and controlled by a low-energy signal.
  • seventh avenue — an avenue in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City.
  • seventh heaven — (especially in Islam and the cabala) the highest heaven, where God and the most exalted angels dwell.
  • seventh-grader — a student in the seventh year of school, usually 11 to 13 years old
  • seventy-eighth — next after the seventy-seventh; being the ordinal number for 78.
  • seventy-fourth — next after the seventy-third; being the ordinal number for 74.
  • sherry vinegar — a gourmet wine vinegar produced in the Jerez region of S Spain
  • shield volcano — a broad volcano built up from the repeated nonexplosive eruption of basalt to form a low dome or shield, usually having a large caldera at the summit
  • shipping fever — a respiratory disease of cattle, caused by Pasteurella haemolytica, often spread during the shipment of livestock.
  • short covering — purchases that close out short sales on stocks or commodities.
  • shove-ha'penny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
  • sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
  • southern slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
  • souvenir sheet — a single stamp or a pair, block, or set of stamps having the same or different designs commemorating a stamp exhibition or other event and having inscriptions in one or all four margins.
  • st. john's eve — Midsummer Eve.
  • the five towns — the name given in his fiction by Arnold Bennett to the Potteries towns (actually six in number) of Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent, and Tunstall, now part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent
  • the inevitable — something that is unavoidable
  • the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
  • the vernacular — the commonly spoken language or dialect of a particular people or place
  • the visitation — the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth: Luke 1:39-56
  • think positive — be optimistic
  • thirty-seventh — next after the thirty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 37.
  • tree of heaven — an Asiatic tree, Ailanthus altissima, having large oblong leaves and rank-smelling flowers, often planted as a shade tree.
  • twenty-seventh — next after the twenty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 27.
  • unapprehensive — slow to understand; not intelligent
  • under-achiever — a student who performs less well in school than would be expected on the basis of abilities indicated by intelligence and aptitude tests, etc.
  • unvanquishable — not able to be vanquished or overcome; unconquerable; undefeatable
  • vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
  • vinyl chloride — a colorless, easily liquefied, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, C 2 H 3 Cl, having a pleasant, etherlike odor: used in the manufacture of plastics, as a refrigerant, and in the synthesis of polyvinyl chloride and other organic compounds.
  • virginia beach — a town in SE Virginia.
  • vote of thanks — A vote of thanks is an official speech in which the speaker formally thanks a person for doing something.
  • voting machine — a mechanical apparatus used in a polling place to register and count the votes.
  • wave mechanics — a form of quantum mechanics formulated in terms of a wave equation, as the Schrödinger equation.
  • with one voice — the sound or sounds uttered through the mouth of living creatures, especially of human beings in speaking, shouting, singing, etc.
  • youth movement — a political, religious or social movement that is made up of young people
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