13-letter words containing h, o, v, a
- on every hand — on all sides; in all directions
- orchard valve — an alfalfa valve of lesser diameter than the pipe it closes.
- over-achiever — to perform, especially academically, above the potential indicated by tests of one's mental ability or aptitude.
- over-the-road — of, for, or pertaining to transportation on public highways: over-the-road trucks.
- overachievers — Plural form of overachiever.
- overachieving — Present participle of overachieve.
- overbreathing — hyperventilation
- overemphasise — (British) alternative spelling of overemphasize.
- overemphasize — to emphasize excessively.
- overhand knot — a simple knot of various uses that slips easily.
- overhastiness — the condition of being overhasty
- overhead door — a door that rotates on a horizontal axis and is supported horizontally when open
- overhead-shot — over one's head; aloft; up in the air or sky, especially near the zenith: There was a cloud overhead.
- overnight bag — a travel bag large enough to hold personal articles and clothing for an overnight trip.
- pham van dong — 1906–2000, Vietnamese political leader: prime minister of North Vietnam 1955–76 and of unified Vietnam 1976–86.
- photonegative — pertaining to a substance, as selenium, having a conductivity that decreases upon absorption of electromagnetic radiation.
- photovoltaics — (used with a singular verb) a field of semiconductor technology involving the direct conversion of electromagnetic radiation as sunlight, into electricity.
- point shaving — (especially in basketball) the illegal practice, by one or more bribed players, of deliberately limiting the number of points scored to conform to the desires of corrupt gamblers.
- point-shaving — (especially in basketball) the illegal practice, by one or more bribed players, of deliberately limiting the number of points scored to conform to the desires of corrupt gamblers.
- private hotel — a residential hotel or boarding house in which the proprietor has the right to refuse to accept a person as a guest, esp a person arriving by chance
- school leaver — School leavers are young people who have just left school, because they have completed their time there.
- scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- shaver outlet — a point in a wall, esp in a bathroom, where you can connect an electric razor to the power supply
- shaving horse — a trestle for supporting and steadying a piece of work being shaved.
- shrove monday — the Monday before Ash Wednesday.
- shrove sunday — the Sunday before Ash Wednesday; Quinquagesima.
- slasher movie — a film in which victims, often women, are slashed with knives, razors, etc
- smooth-shaven — having the beard and mustache shaved off; clean-shaven.
- souphanouvong — Prince, 1909–1995, Laotian political leader: president 1975–86 (half brother of Prince Souvanna Phouma).
- 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.
- stovepipe hat — a tall silk hat.
- tea-of-heaven — a shrub, Hydrangea macrophylla serrata, of the saxifrage family, native to Japan and Korea, having hairy, ovate leaves and flat or slightly arched clusters of blue or white flowers.
- the heavy mob — a group of heavies or enforcers
- theatre lover — sb who enjoys going to plays
- throw a curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- to play havoc — If one thing plays havoc with another or wreaks havoc on it, it prevents it from continuing or functioning as normal, or damages it.
- touch a nerve — to mention or bring to mind a sensitive issue or subject
- vapourer moth — a tussock moth, Orgyia antiqua, of hedgerows and trees, the female of which is wingless and lays her eggs on her former cocoon
- vapourishness — the quality or state of being vapourish
- 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
- vinyl alcohol — an unstable liquid compound, C 2 H 4 O, found only in the form of its esters or as the polymer polyvinyl alcohol.
- vote-catching — relating to a means of securing votes
- vowel harmony — a phonological rule in some languages, as Hungarian and Turkish, requiring that the vowels of a word all share a specified feature, such as front or back articulation, thereby conditioning the form that affixes may take, as in forming the Turkish plurals evler “houses” from ev “house” and adamlar “men” from adam “man.”.
- what have you — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
- wolverhampton — a city in West Midlands, in W England.
- wood shavings — shavings of wood, as found in a carpenter's workshop etc