12-letter words containing h, e, l, v
- live in hope — If you live in hope that something will happen, you continue to hope that it will happen, although it seems unlikely, and you realize that you are being foolish.
- live through — experience or endure
- live yoghurt — yoghurt that contains live bacteria
- liverishness — Quality of being liverish.
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- love handles — fat midriff
- machiavelian — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
- malvern hill — a plateau in E Virginia, SE of Richmond: battle 1862.
- michael viii — surnamed Palaeologus (ˈpælɪəˌləʊɡəs). 1224–82, Byzantine emperor (1259–82); founder of the Palaeologan dynasty. His reign saw the recovery of Constantinople from the Latins (1261) and the reunion (1274) of the Greek and Roman churches
- nevertheless — nonetheless; notwithstanding; however; in spite of that: a small but nevertheless important change.
- nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
- olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.
- on the level — having no part higher than another; having a flat or even surface.
- only have to — If you say you only have to do one thing in order to achieve or prove a second thing, you are emphasizing how easily the second thing can be achieved or proved.
- over-helpful — giving or rendering aid or assistance; of service: Your comments were very helpful.
- overflourish — to flourish excessively
- overlengthen — to extend excessively
- overlordship — a person who is lord over another or over other lords: to obey the will of one's sovereign and overlord.
- overwhelming — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
- overwithhold — to withhold too much.
- phoenixville — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
- phrasal verb — a combination of verb and one or more adverbial or prepositional particles, as catch on, take off, bring up, or put up with, functioning as a single semantic unit and often having an idiomatic meaning that could not be predicted from the meanings of the individual parts.
- power shovel — any self-propelled shovel for excavating earth, ore, or coal with a dipper that is powered by a diesel engine or electric motor. Compare shovel (def 2).
- schererville — a town in NW Indiana.
- shirt-sleeve — not wearing a jacket; informally dressed: a shirt-sleeve mob.
- shirtsleeved — not wearing a jacket or coat
- shovel-nosed — having the head, snout, or beak broad and flat like the blade of a shovel.
- shovel-ready — of or relating to a construction project that is ready to start immediately
- silver birch — tree with silvery-white bark
- silver perch — Also called mademoiselle. Ichthyology. a drum, Bairdiella chrysoura, of southern U.S. waters.
- smother-love — a relationship between a parent and child in which the parent is over-protective to the extent that the child's normal psychological development is inhibited
- steam shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
- steam-shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
- stephenville — a town in central Texas.
- swivel chair — a chair whose seat turns around horizontally on a swivel.
- the bushveld — an area of low altitude in N South Africa, having scrub vegetation
- the evil one — the devil; Satan
- the highveld — the high-altitude grassland region of E South Africa
- the varletry — rabble; mob
- three-valued — of or relating to propositions having a value other than truth or falsity.
- travel light — If you travel light, you travel without taking much luggage.
- unachievable — to bring to a successful end; carry through; accomplish: The police crackdown on speeders achieved its purpose.
- velvet shank — a bright yellow edible basidiomycetous fungus, Flammulina velutipes, common on trunks, stumps, or branches of broad-leaved trees in winter
- village hall — function venue in small community
- villahermosa — a state in SE Mexico, on the Gulf of Campeche. 9783 sq. mi. (25,338 sq. km). Capital: Villahermosa.
- well-behaved — to act in a particular way; conduct or comport oneself or itself: The ship behaves well.
- white clover — a clover, Trifolium repens, having white flowers, common in pastures and meadows.
- white slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
- white-slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.