14-letter words containing h, i, v, e, l
- overwhelmingly — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
- pavement light — a windowlike structure set in a pavement or the like to illuminate areas beneath, consisting of thick glass blocks set in a metal frame.
- phase velocity — the velocity with which a simple harmonic wave is propagated, equal to the wavelength divided by the period of vibration.
- phillips curve — a curve that purports to plot the relationship between unemployment and inflation on the theory that as inflation falls unemployment rises and vice versa
- 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.
- quicksilverish — resembling quicksilver
- rehabilitative — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- relative pitch — the pitch of a tone as determined by its relationship to other tones in a scale.
- relieving arch — discharging arch.
- 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
- target vehicle — a spacecraft used to develop and practise orbital space rendezvous and docking techniques in preparation for the lunar missions
- the inevitable — something that is unavoidable
- the ivy league — a group of eight universities (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth College, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale) that have similar academic and social prestige in the US to Oxford and Cambridge in Britain
- the very devil — something very difficult or awkward
- unvanquishable — not able to be vanquished or overcome; unconquerable; undefeatable
- variable-pitch — (of a propeller) controllable-pitch.
- 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.
- vexillographer — a person who designs or makes flags.
- victor charlie — a Vietcong or the Vietcong; the VC.
- village school — a school in a village
- vinyl chloride — a colorless, easily liquefied, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, C 2 H 3 Cl, having a pleasant, etherlike odor: used in the manufacture of plastics, as a refrigerant, and in the synthesis of polyvinyl chloride and other organic compounds.
- visible speech — the representation in graphic or pictorial form of characteristics of speech, as by means of sound spectrograms.
- whiplash-curve — the lash of a whip.