16-letter words containing h, i, v, e, l
- off-road vehicle — An off-road vehicle is a vehicle that is designed to travel over rough ground.
- overhead railway — elevated railroad.
- overwhelmingness — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
- philoprogenitive — producing offspring, especially abundantly; prolific.
- 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.
- re-entry vehicle — the section of a spacecraft or ballistic missile designed to return to earth.
- rear-wheel drive — a layout in motor vehicles which places the engine at the front and the driven wheels at the rear
- recovery vehicle — a truck used to transport motor vehicles which have broken down to another location (generally a repair garage), or to recover vehicles which are no longer on a drivable surface
- scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
- shopping village — a shopping centre that designed to look like a village
- shrinking violet — a shy, modest, or self-effacing person.
- splanchnic nerve — Anatomy. any of several nerves to the viscera and blood vessels of the chest and pelvic areas.
- swedish vallhund — a small sturdy dog of a Swedish breed with a long body and pricked pointed ears
- the devil to pay — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- the silver ferns — the women's international netball team of New Zealand
- the silver state — the nickname of the US state of Nevada, which comes from the large amount of silver discovered and mined there
- thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
- underpitch vault — a construction having a central vault intersected by vaults of lower pitch.
- vapor channeling — Vapor channeling exists when vapor flow is distributed in an unequal way in a distillation vessel or stage.
- ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
- verbal diarrhoea — a tendency to speak at excessive length
- vestibule school — a school in an industrial establishment where new employees are given specific training in the jobs they are to perform.
- whirling dervish — a member of a Turkish order of dervishes, or Sufis, whose ritual consists in part of a highly stylized whirling dance.