13-letter words containing h, i, v, e, l
- nowheresville — a remote or isolated town or village.
- over the hill — a natural elevation of the earth's surface, smaller than a mountain.
- overembellish — Make (something) too ornate or complicated.
- philippeville — former name of Skikda.
- private hotel — a residential hotel or boarding house in which the proprietor has the right to refuse to accept a person as a guest, esp a person arriving by chance
- prohibitively — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- rayleigh wave — a wave along the surface of a solid, elastic body, especially along the surface of the earth.
- river dolphin — any freshwater cetacean of the family Platanistidae, inhabiting rivers of North and South America and S Asia. They are smaller than marine dolphins and have a longer narrower snout
- schuylerville — a village in E New York, on the Hudson: scene of Burgoyne's defeat and surrender in the Battle of Saratoga 1777.
- self-adhesive — having a side or surface coated with an adhesive substance to permit sticking without glue, paste, or the like: a self-adhesive label; self-adhesive ceramic tiles.
- shelving unit — A shelving unit is a flexible display system which can be moved and adjusted to accommodate different product dimensions.
- shirt-sleeves — not wearing a jacket; informally dressed: a shirt-sleeve mob.
- shivering owl — screech owl.
- silver halide — a compound in which silver is combined with a halogen, as silver chloride, bromide, or iodide.
- silver polish — a type of polishing medium that is suitable for silver
- silver-haired — having silver coloured hair
- silver-y moth — a brownish noctuid moth, Plusia gamma, having a light Y-shaped marking on each forewing; it migrates in large flocks
- silvichemical — any of a number of chemicals derived from a tree.
- slasher movie — a film in which victims, often women, are slashed with knives, razors, etc
- swivel-hipped — characterized by an exaggeratedly swinging or extremely free motion of the hips.
- take the veil — to become a nun
- the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
- the invisible — God
- trophic level — any class of organisms that occupy the same position in a food chain, as primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers.
- velocity head — the velocity of a fluid expressed in terms of the head or static pressure required to produce that velocity. It equals ρν/2 where ρ is the density of the fluid and ν is the velocity. In hydrology the density of water can be written 1/G where G is the gravitational constant
- vinylethylene — butadiene.
- visceral arch — Embryology. branchial arch.
- visible light — the part of the electromagnetic spectrum that humans perceive
- white slavery — the condition of or traffic in white slaves.
- white vitriol — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble powder, ZnSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O, used for preserving skins and wood, in the electrodeposition of zinc, in the bleaching of paper, as a mordant in calico printing, and in medicine as an astringent, styptic, and emetic.
- white-livered — lacking courage; cowardly; lily-livered.
- white-slaving — traffic in white slaves.
- wilhelmshaven — a seaport in NW Germany, NW of Bremen, on the North Sea.