11-letter words containing e, v, s, h, a
- marcheshvan — Heshvan.
- misbehaving — to behave badly or improperly: The children misbehaved during our visit.
- misbehavior — improper, inappropriate, or bad behavior.
- native bush — indigenous forest
- noah's dove — the constellation Columba.
- nonadhesive — coated with glue, paste, mastic, or other sticky substance: adhesive bandages.
- over-sharer — an instance of this: Get ready for an overshare about his health problems.
- overcharges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcharge.
- overharvest — the harvesting of plants or animals in an unsustainable manner
- overhastily — in such a way as to be excessively hasty or done without enough consideration
- postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- rhea silvia — a vestal virgin who became the mother, by Mars, of Romulus and Remus.
- savannakhet — a city in S central Laos.
- servanthood — the condition of being a servant
- seventh-day — designating certain Christian denominations that make Saturday their chief day of rest and religious observance: Seventh-Day Adventists.
- shaft grave — a grave consisting of a deep, rectangular pit with vertical sides, roofed over with a stone slab.
- sharonville — a town in SW Ohio.
- sharpeville — a town in E South Africa: scene of riots in 1960 (when 69 demonstrators died), 1984, and 1985 (when 19 died)
- shaving gel — product that softens hair growth for shaving
- shcherbakov — a former name (1946–57) of Andropov.
- shore leave — permission to spend time ashore, usually 48 hours or more, granted a member of a ship's company.
- shovel beak — a deformity of the beak in intensively reared chicks
- shovelboard — the game of shuffleboard.
- silver hake — a common hake, Merluccius bilinearis, occurring off the Atlantic coast of North America and popular as a food fish.
- silver thaw — glaze (def 17).
- silverchair — Australian rock group (formed 1994): comprising Daniel Johns (born 1979; vocals, guitar), Ben Gillies (born 1979, drums) and Chris Joannou (born 1979, bass guitar); their albums include Frogstomp (1995) and Young Modern (2007)
- slaveholder — an owner of slaves.
- slavishness — of or befitting a slave: slavish subjection.
- stevengraph — a small picture woven in colored silk thread: introduced in 1879 and mass-produced on a Jacquard-type loom.
- swivel head — A swivel head is a bearing between the traveling block and the kelly.
- thanksgiver — a person who gives thanks.
- the heavens — the sky
- the heavies — a serious newspaper
- the vapours — a depressed mental condition believed originally to be the result of vaporous exhalations from the stomach
- the wharves — the working area of a dock
- thomasville — a city in S Georgia.
- thorvaldsen — Albert Bertal [ahl-bert bar-tuh l] /ˈɑl bɛrt ˈbær təl/ (Show IPA), 1770–1844, Danish sculptor.
- thrash over — to go over (a problem, etc.) in great detail
- travel shot — a camera shot taken from a mobile platform, dolly, or the like, that keeps within range of a moving subject.
- tu bishevat — the 15th day of the month of Shevat, observed as a new year for trees by planting trees and by eating fruits.
- turishcheva — Ludmilla (lʊdˈmɪlə). born 1952, Soviet gymnast: world champion 1970, 1972 (at the Olympic Games), and 1974
- unharvested — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- unvarnished — plain; clear; straightforward; without vagueness or subterfuge; frank: the unvarnished truth.
- vaisheshika — a school of thought asserting the existence of a universe formed by a god out of atoms of earth, air, fire, and water, as well as out of space, time, ether, mind, and soul, all conceived as substances coexisting eternally with the god.
- vaivodeship — the position or office of a vaivode
- vapor phase — In its vapor phase a substance can be condensed to a liquid or to a solid by increasing its pressure without reducing the temperature.
- vellus hair — short fine unpigmented hair covering the human body
- venus'-hair — a maidenhair fern (Adiantum capillus-veneris) of tropical America and the S U.S.
- verb phrase — a group of words including a verb and its complements, objects, or other modifiers that functions syntactically as a verb. In English a verb phrase combines with a noun or noun phrase acting as subject to form a simple sentence.
- wavelengths — Plural form of wavelength.