14-letter words containing e, v, s, h, a
- overemphasised — Simple past tense and past participle of overemphasise.
- overemphasized — Simple past tense and past participle of overemphasize.
- overemphasizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overemphasize.
- overenthusiasm — absorbing or controlling possession of the mind by any interest or pursuit; lively interest: He shows marked enthusiasm for his studies.
- overnight stay — in hospital or hotel
- phase velocity — the velocity with which a simple harmonic wave is propagated, equal to the wavelength divided by the period of vibration.
- private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
- reverse-charge — (of a telephone call) made at the recipient's expense
- 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.
- service charge — a fee charged for a service, sometimes in addition to a basic charge.
- 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
- share of voice — the proportion of the total audience or readership commanded by a media group across its full range of publishing and broadcasting activities
- sherry vinegar — a gourmet wine vinegar produced in the Jerez region of S Spain
- sheva brachoth — the seven blessings said during the marriage service and repeated at the celebration thereafter
- 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
- 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.
- shrove tuesday — the last day of Shrovetide, long observed as a season of merrymaking before Lent.
- 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)
- szekesfehervar — a city in W central Hungary.
- the everglades — a subtropical marshy region of Florida, south of Lake Okeechobee: contains the Everglades National Park established to preserve the flora and fauna of the swamps. Area: over 13 000 sq km (5000 sq miles)
- the visitation — the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth: Luke 1:39-56
- unapprehensive — slow to understand; not intelligent
- unvanquishable — not able to be vanquished or overcome; unconquerable; undefeatable
- v-shaped curve — a curve on a graph that shows a sharp fall followed by a correspondingly sharp rise
- vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
- vegetable dish — a dish designed to serve vegetables from
- vestavia hills — a city in central Alabama, near Birmingham.
- village school — a school in a village
- vote of thanks — A vote of thanks is an official speech in which the speaker formally thanks a person for doing something.
- wave mechanics — a form of quantum mechanics formulated in terms of a wave equation, as the Schrödinger equation.
- weaver's hitch — sheet bend.
- whiplash-curve — the lash of a whip.