13-letter words containing h, o, v, e
- 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.
- overnourished — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- overstretched — to stretch excessively.
- photonegative — pertaining to a substance, as selenium, having a conductivity that decreases upon absorption of electromagnetic radiation.
- photopositive — pertaining to a substance whose conductivity increases upon absorption of electromagnetic radiation.
- 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
- prohibitively — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- recovery ship — a naval vessel designed to participate in the retrieval of a satellite, instrument package, or spaceship after it has re-entered the atmosphere and landed in the ocean
- river dolphin — any freshwater cetacean of the family Platanistidae, inhabiting rivers of North and South America and S Asia. They are smaller than marine dolphins and have a longer narrower snout
- 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
- seventh chord — a chord formed by the superposition of three thirds.
- 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.
- shivering owl — screech owl.
- short-sleeved — having short sleeves
- shrove monday — the Monday before Ash Wednesday.
- shrove sunday — the Sunday before Ash Wednesday; Quinquagesima.
- silver polish — a type of polishing medium that is suitable for silver
- silver-y moth — a brownish noctuid moth, Plusia gamma, having a light Y-shaped marking on each forewing; it migrates in large flocks
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- theatre lover — sb who enjoys going to plays
- throw a curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- touch a nerve — to mention or bring to mind a sensitive issue or subject
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- volksdeutsche — a member of the German people, especially one of a community having its home outside of Germany, usually in central or eastern Europe.
- 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.
- whereinsoever — in whatever respect
- white vitriol — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble powder, ZnSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O, used for preserving skins and wood, in the electrodeposition of zinc, in the bleaching of paper, as a mordant in calico printing, and in medicine as an astringent, styptic, and emetic.
- whithersoever — Wherever.