13-letter words containing e, v, n
- have a bun on — have a bun on, Slang. to be intoxicated: Everyone at the party seemed to have a bun on.
- have a mad on — to be angry
- have occasion — If you have occasion to do something, it is necessary for you to do it.
- haven't lived — If you tell someone that they haven't lived unless they experience a particular thing, you are telling them that thing is extremely good and should be experienced.
- health-giving — conducive to health; salutary
- heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
- heavenly body — celestial object: star, planet, etc.
- heavenly city — the abode of God and His saints; heaven. Rev. 21:2.
- heavy element — any element heavier than helium
- heavy lifting — hard work: A team of researchers did the heavy lifting for the author.
- heavy petting — Informal. intense petting that involves mutual stimulation of the genitals but not sexual intercourse.
- hertzian wave — an electromagnetic wave produced by oscillations in an electric circuit, as a radio or radar wave: first investigated by H. R. Hertz.
- hevelian halo — a faint white halo with an angular radius of 90° that is occasionally seen around the sun or the moon, thought to be caused by the reflection and refraction of sunlight by ice crystals.
- home invasion — an act or instance of entering an occupied residence with the intent to commit a burglary or other crime.
- homing device — a mechanism incorporated into a guided missile, airplane, etc., that aims it toward its objective.
- host an event — If a hotel or organization hosts an event, it provides the facilities for the event to take place.
- hot and heavy — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
- hypertensives — Plural form of hypertensive.
- hypervigilant — keenly watchful to detect danger; wary: a vigilant sentry.
- hypervirulent — actively poisonous; intensely noxious: a virulent insect bite.
- hyposensitive — low or diminished sensitivity to stimulation.
- hypoventilate — (intransitive) To undergo hypoventilation.
- ice-cream van — a mobile shop that sells ice cream and confectionery
- ill-conceived — badly conceived or planned: an ill-conceived project.
- imaginatively — characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
- imitativeness — imitating; copying; given to imitation.
- immersiveness — The quality or degree of being immersive.
- immovableness — The quality of being immovable.
- impassiveness — The state of being impassive.
- imperseverant — lacking the power to perceive
- impoverishing — Present participle of impoverish.
- improvidently — In an improvident manner.
- impulsiveness — actuated or swayed by emotional or involuntary impulses: an impulsive child.
- in advance of — prior to
- in the groove — a long, narrow cut or indentation in a surface, as the cut in a board to receive the tongue of another board (tongue-and-groove joint) a furrow, or a natural indentation on an organism.
- in-observance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- in/given time — If you say that something will happen in time or given time, you mean that it will happen eventually, when a lot of time has passed.
- inadvertently — unintentional: an inadvertent insult.
- inattentively — not attentive; negligent.
- incarcerative — to imprison; confine.
- incentive pay — additional pay, a higher wage, or a bonus paid to promote the productivity of an employee.
- incentivising — Present participle of incentivise.
- incentivizing — to give incentives to: The government should incentivize the private sector to create jobs.
- inclusiveness — including or encompassing the stated limit or extremes in consideration or account (usually used postpositively): from 6 to 37 inclusive.
- inconceivable — not conceivable; unimaginable; unthinkable.
- inconceivably — not conceivable; unimaginable; unthinkable.
- inconsecutive — not consecutive.
- inconvenience — the quality or state of being inconvenient.
- inconveniency — inconvenience.
- inconversable — (obsolete) uncommunicative; reserved.