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13-letter words containing h, i, v

  • 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.
  • serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
  • seventy-eight — a cardinal number, 70 plus 8.
  • seventy-fifth — next after the seventy-fourth; being the ordinal number for 75.
  • seventy-ninth — next after the seventy-eighth; being the ordinal number for 79.
  • seventy-sixth — next after the seventy-fifth; being the ordinal number for 76.
  • seventy-third — next after the seventy-second; being the ordinal number for 73.
  • shaving brush — a short, cylindrical brush with long, soft, bristles, used in lathering the face before shaving.
  • shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
  • shaving horse — a trestle for supporting and steadying a piece of work being shaved.
  • shaving stick — a piece of shaving foam moulded into a slender shape and held in a slender container for ease of application to the face when removing hair with a razor
  • 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.
  • sixty-seventh — next after the sixty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 67.
  • slasher movie — a film in which victims, often women, are slashed with knives, razors, etc
  • south vietnam — a former country in SE Asia that comprised Vietnam S of about 17° N latitude; a separate state 1954–75; now part of reunified Vietnam. Capital: Saigon.
  • souvenir shop — a shop that sells trivial gift items, such as T-shirts, coffee mugs, keyrings etc, esp aimed at tourists
  • spanish river — a river in S Ontario, Canada, flowing S into the North Channel of Lake Huron. 150 miles (241 km) long.
  • stovepipe hat — a tall silk hat.
  • superachiever — someone who achieves more than most; high achiever
  • 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 hué river — a river in central Vietnam that crosses the port of Hué
  • the invisible — God
  • the narrative — the part of a literary work that relates events
  • the offensive — an attitude or position of aggression
  • the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
  • the seventies — the years numbered 70–79 in a particular century, esp the 20th century
  • thermic fever — sunstroke.
  • thieves' cant — slang used by thieves
  • trophic level — any class of organisms that occupy the same position in a food chain, as primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers.
  • typhoid fever — Also called typhoid fever. an infectious, often fatal, febrile disease, usually of the summer months, characterized by intestinal inflammation and ulceration, caused by the typhoid bacillus, which is usually introduced with food or drink.
  • underachiever — a student who performs less well in school than would be expected on the basis of abilities indicated by intelligence and aptitude tests, etc.
  • vanishing act — a vanishing act is when someone is impossible to contact, or disappears from public view
  • vapourishness — the quality or state of being vapourish
  • varied thrush — a plump thrush, Ixoreus naevius, of western North America, resembling a robin with a dark band across the chest.
  • vasa murrhina — an American art glass, consisting of colored glass dusted with flakes or grains of metal and flashed with clear glass.
  • vashon island — an island in Puget Sound, W central Washington, between Seattle and Tacoma. 37 sq. mi. (96 sq. km).
  • vasoinhibitor — an agent, as a drug, that inhibits the action of the vasomotor nerves.
  • 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
  • verkhneudinsk — former name of Ulan Ude.
  • vice-chairman — a member of a committee, board, group, etc., designated as immediately subordinate to a chairman and serving as such in the latter's absence; a person who acts for and assists a chairman.
  • vindhya range — a mountain range in central India: separates the Ganges basin from the Deccan, marking the limits of northern and peninsular India. Greatest height: 1113 m (3651 ft)
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