18-letter words containing h, i, v
- have words with sb — If one person has words with another, or if two or more people have words, they have a serious discussion or argument, especially because one has complained about the other's behaviour.
- have/be to do with — If you say that one thing has something to do with or is something to do with another thing, you mean that the two things are connected or that the first thing is about the second thing.
- heavy middleweight — a professional wrestler weighing 177–187 pounds (81–85 kg)
- heimlich manoeuvre — a technique in first aid to dislodge a foreign body in a person's windpipe by applying sudden upward pressure on the upper abdomen
- hemidemisemiquaver — a sixty-fourth note.
- herring bone weave — a pattern consisting of adjoining vertical rows of slanting lines, any two contiguous lines forming either a V or an inverted V , used in masonry, textiles, embroidery, etc.
- high-sided vehicle — an official term for lorries, vans, trailers, etc with a height greater than that of motor cars
- hit-and-run driver — sb: leaves accident scene
- hold a reservation — If a hotel holds a reservation, it keeps a room for someone, and does not give it to someone else.
- hypersensitiveness — The state of being hypersensitive.
- i'll give you that — You say I'll give you that to indicate that you admit that someone has a particular characteristic or ability.
- in the affirmative — positively, by saying yes
- in the vicinity of — near to, in the area around
- indecent behaviour — the offence of committing indecent acts
- industrial vehicle — a vehicle designed for use in industry
- jacksonville beach — a city in NE Florida.
- junior heavyweight — a boxer weighing up to 190 pounds (85.5 kg), between light heavyweight and heavyweight.
- leave in the lurch — a situation at the close of various games in which the loser scores nothing or is far behind the opponent.
- legislative branch — the branch of government having the power to make laws; the legislature.
- lily of the valley — a plant, Convallaria majalis, having an elongated cluster of small, drooping, bell-shaped, fragrant white flowers.
- lives of the poets — a collection (1779–81), by Samuel Johnson, of biographical and critical essays on 52 English poets.
- merchant of venice — a comedy (1596?) by Shakespeare.
- naval architecture — the science of designing ships and other waterborne craft.
- negative cash flow — the situation when income is less than payments
- nervous exhaustion — extreme mental and physical fatigue caused by excessive emotional stress; neurasthenia.
- one's native heath — the place of one's birth or childhood
- ovariohysterectomy — Surgical removal of the ovaries and uterus.
- over and done with — If you say that something is over and done with, you mean that it is completely finished and you do not have to think about it any more.
- overnight telegram — a type of domestic telegram sent at a reduced rate with a minimum charge for 10 words or less and accepted until midnight for delivery the following day.
- passive euthanasia — a form of euthanasia in which medical treatment that will keep a dying patient alive for a time is withdrawn
- pemphigus vulgaris — a potentially fatal blistering skin disease, characterized by large blisters on the skin, mucous membranes of the mouth, genitals, intestines, etc, which eventually rupture and form painful denuded areas from which critical amounts of bodily protein, fluid, and blood may be lost
- pennsylvania dutch — the descendants of 17th- and 18th-century settlers in Pennsylvania from southwest Germany and Switzerland.
- physical inventory — To carry out a physical inventory is to count all the stock on hand.
- polyvinyl chloride — a white, water-insoluble, thermoplastic resin, derived by the polymerization of vinyl chloride: used chiefly for thin coatings, insulation, and pipings.
- positively charged — having a positive charge
- provision merchant — a person or company in the business of retailing food and other provisions
- puvis de chavannes — Puvis de [py-vee duh] /püˈvi də/ (Show IPA), Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre.
- reinvent the wheel — (jargon) To design or implement a tool equivalent to an existing one or part of one, with the implication that doing so is silly or a waste of time. This is often a valid criticism. On the other hand, automobiles don't use wooden rollers, and some kinds of wheel have to be reinvented many times before you get them right. On the third hand, people reinventing the wheel do tend to come up with the moral equivalent of a trapezoid with an offset axle.
- research-intensive — focusing financial and other resources on research and development as opposed to capital and labor; noting or pertaining to a high ratio of expenditure on research in relation to the value of net output.
- school-leaving age — the minimum age that children are legally allowed to leave school - in Britain and the United States, this is 16
- supportive therapy — any treatment, such as the intravenous administration of certain fluids, designed to reinforce or sustain the physiological well-being of a patient
- survival mechanism — something you or your body does automatically, in order to survive in a dangerous or unpleasant situation
- synthetic division — a simplified procedure for dividing a polynomial by a linear polynomial.
- talk of the devil! — used when an absent person who has been the subject of conversation appears
- teacher evaluation — the process of vetting teachers to maintain teaching standards
- technical reserves — Technical reserves are amounts of money set aside to pay for underwriting liabilities.
- telephone receiver — a device, as in a telephone, that converts changes in an electric current into sound.
- the french riviera — the Mediterranean coastal region of France from Cannes eastward to Italy
- the movie industry — the industry that makes entertainment films or movies
- the operative word — If you describe a word as the operative word, you want to draw attention to it because you think it is important or exactly true in a particular situation.