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11-letter words containing h, a, v, e

  • oveta hobby — Oveta Culp [kuhlp] /kʌlp/ (Show IPA), 1905–1995, U.S. newspaper publisher and government official: first director of Women's Army Corps 1942–45; first Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare 1953–55.
  • pelvic arch — (in vertebrates) a bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the hind limbs or analogous parts.
  • photoactive — the activation or control of a chemical, chemical reaction, or organism by light, as the activation of chlorophyll by sunlight during photosynthesis.
  • postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
  • privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
  • rh negative — See under Rh factor.
  • rh-negative — See under Rh factor.
  • 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 algarve — an area in the south of Portugal, on the Atlantic; it approximately corresponds to the administrative district of Faro: fishing and tourism important
  • the heavens — the sky
  • the heavies — a serious newspaper
  • the javelin — the event or sport of throwing the javelin
  • the vapours — a depressed mental condition believed originally to be the result of vaporous exhalations from the stomach
  • the vat man — an informal way of referring to HM Revenue & Customs
  • the wharves — the working area of a dock
  • the-village — The, a city in central Oklahoma.
  • thomasville — a city in S Georgia.
  • thoreauvian — Henry David, 1817–62, U.S. naturalist and author.
  • 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
  • thread vein — a small red or purple capillary near to the surface of the skin
  • travel shot — a camera shot taken from a mobile platform, dolly, or the like, that keeps within range of a moving subject.
  • truth-value — the truth or falsehood of a proposition: The truth-value of “2 + 2 = 5” is falsehood.
  • 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
  • van der hum — a spicy liqueur from South Africa, flavored with tangerine and herbs.
  • van vechten — Carl, 1880–1964, U.S. author.
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