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16-letter words containing h, a, r, v, e

  • hypervariability — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
  • hypervascularity — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
  • hyperventilating — Present participle of hyperventilate.
  • hyperventilation — excessively rapid and deep breathing.
  • hypervitaminosis — an abnormal condition caused by an excessive intake of vitamins.
  • interbehavioural — relating to or involving interbehaviour
  • italian vermouth — sweet vermouth
  • javelin throwing — the sport of throwing the javelin
  • male-voice choir — a choir of male singers
  • mechanoreceptive — Responsive to mechanical stimuli such as sound and touch.
  • medieval cornish — the Cornish language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 14th century to 1600.
  • medieval history — the branch of history dealing with the Middle Ages
  • merchant service — A merchant service is a provider of credit card processing services.
  • mover and shaker — a person who has power and influence, esp., a member of a group having power and influence
  • north vietnamese — relating to North Vietnam or its people
  • nusslein-volhard — Christiane [kris-tee-ah-nuh,, kris-tyah-] /ˌkrɪs tiˈɑ nə,, krɪsˈtyɑ-/ (Show IPA), born 1942, German biologist: Nobel prize 1995.
  • off-road vehicle — An off-road vehicle is a vehicle that is designed to travel over rough ground.
  • on (the) average — as an average quantity, rate, etc.
  • over the transom — by unsolicited submission, as to a publisher
  • overenthusiastic — full of or characterized by enthusiasm; ardent: He seems very enthusiastic about his role in the play.
  • overhead railway — elevated railroad.
  • peruvian rhatany — See under rhatany (def 1).
  • plutarch's lives — (Parallel Lives) a collection (a.d. 105–15) by Plutarch of short biographies of the leading political figures of ancient Greece and Rome.
  • pyruvic aldehyde — a yellow, liquid compound, C 3 H 4 O 2 , containing both an aldehyde and a ketone group, usually obtained in a polymeric form: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • reap the harvest — If you reap the harvest, you benefit or suffer from the results of your past actions or of someone else's past actions.
  • rear-wheel drive — a layout in motor vehicles which places the engine at the front and the driven wheels at the rear
  • reverse a charge — If you reverse a charge on a credit card, you put the amount you have charged back into the credit card account.
  • right-hand drive — A right-hand drive vehicle has its steering wheel on the right side. It is designed to be driven in countries such as Britain, Japan, and Australia where people drive on the left side of the road.
  • scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
  • shaker and mover — mover and shaker
  • sheet-web weaver — any of numerous spiders of the family Linyphiidae, characterized by a closely woven, sheetlike web.
  • shoemaker-levy 9 — a comet that was captured into an orbit around Jupiter and later broke up, the fragments colliding with Jupiter in July 1995
  • splanchnic nerve — Anatomy. any of several nerves to the viscera and blood vessels of the chest and pelvic areas.
  • superheavyweight — an amateur boxer weighing more than 91 kg
  • surveyor's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • the beaver state — a name for the state of Oregon
  • the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
  • the silver state — the nickname of the US state of Nevada, which comes from the large amount of silver discovered and mined there
  • the unobservable — something that cannot be observed
  • thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
  • traveler's check — a check issued in any of various denominations by a bank, travel agency, etc., that is signed by the purchaser upon purchase and again, in the presence of the payee, when cashing the check or using it to pay for goods or services.
  • underpitch vault — a construction having a central vault intersected by vaults of lower pitch.
  • valet de chambre — valet (def 1).
  • vapor channeling — Vapor channeling exists when vapor flow is distributed in an unequal way in a distillation vessel or stage.
  • vauxhall gardens — a public garden at Vauxhall, laid out in 1661; a fashionable meeting place and site of lavish entertainments. Closed in 1859
  • ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
  • verbal diarrhoea — a tendency to speak at excessive length
  • visiting teacher — a teacher in a public school system, assigned to give home instruction to sick or disabled pupils.
  • vitamin-enriched — having had vitamins added
  • voluntary helper — a person who aids or assists in a specified function of one's own accord and without compulsion or promise of remuneration
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