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

  • slavishness — of or befitting a slave: slavish subjection.
  • south river — a borough in central New Jersey.
  • stephen vii — died a.d. 931, pope 928–931.
  • survey ship — a vessel designed to carry out research and surveying
  • swedish ivy — any of various plants belonging to the genus Plectranthus, of the mint family, native to the Old World tropics, having rounded, scalloped or toothed leaves and widely cultivated as a houseplant.
  • switch over — If you switch over when you are watching television, you change to another channel.
  • swivel head — A swivel head is a bearing between the traveling block and the kelly.
  • thanksgiver — a person who gives thanks.
  • the five ks — items traditionally worn or carried by Sikhs, each possessing a symbolic importance
  • the heavies — a serious newspaper
  • the javelin — the event or sport of throwing the javelin
  • the shivers — an attack of shivering, esp through fear or illness
  • the-village — The, a city in central Oklahoma.
  • thirty-five — a cardinal number, 30 plus 5.
  • thomasville — a city in S Georgia.
  • thoreauvian — Henry David, 1817–62, U.S. naturalist and author.
  • thread vein — a small red or purple capillary near to the surface of the skin
  • thumb drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
  • 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
  • twelve-inch — a phonograph record twelve inches in diameter, especially one with two or more remixes of the same song.
  • 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
  • vellus hair — short fine unpigmented hair covering the human body
  • venographic — of or relating to venography
  • venus'-hair — a maidenhair fern (Adiantum capillus-veneris) of tropical America and the S U.S.
  • vere childe — Vere Gordon [veer] /vɪər/ (Show IPA), 1892–1957, English anthropologist, archaeologist, and writer; born in Australia.
  • vichy water — a natural mineral water from springs at Vichy, containing sodium bicarbonate, other alkaline salts, etc., used in the treatment of digestive disturbances, gout, etc.
  • vichyssoise — a cream soup of potatoes and leeks, usually served chilled and often garnished with chopped chives.
  • videography — the art or process of making films with a video camera.
  • videotheque — a cinema in which videos are shown
  • view halloa — the shout made by a hunter on seeing a fox break cover.
  • view halloo — the shout made by a hunter on seeing a fox break cover.
  • vinho verde — any of a variety of light, slightly sharp-tasting wines made from early-picked grapes in the Minho region of NW Portugal
  • vinyl ether — a colorless, flammable, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 4 H 6 O, used as an inhalation anesthetic.
  • voguishness — the state or condition of being voguish
  • voivodeship — the area which is governed by a voivode
  • vowel shift — a systematic phonetic change in a language's vowels
  • wavy-haired — having wavy hair
  • whateverism — (politics) Adherence to the Two Whatevers:
  • whichsoever — Whichever.
  • whist drive — a social gathering where whist is played; the winners of each hand move to different tables to play the losers of the previous hand
  • white river — a river flowing SE from NW Arkansas into the Mississippi River. 690 miles (1110 km) long.
  • white slave — a woman who is sold or forced into prostitution.
  • white volta — a river in W Africa, in Ghana: a branch of the Volta River. About 550 miles (885 km) long. Compare Volta (def 2).
  • white wavey — See under wavey.
  • white-glove — meticulous; painstaking; minute: a white-glove inspection.
  • youskevitch — Igor [ee-gawr] /ˈi gɔr/ (Show IPA), 1912–94, U.S. ballet dancer, born in Russia.
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