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16-letter words containing o, h, i, r, v

  • overwhelmingness — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
  • philoprogenitive — producing offspring, especially abundantly; prolific.
  • phytosuccivorous — feeding on sap, as certain sucking insects.
  • recovery vehicle — a truck used to transport motor vehicles which have broken down to another location (generally a repair garage), or to recover vehicles which are no longer on a drivable surface
  • savonarola chair — a chair of the Renaissance having a number of transverse pairs of curved legs, crossing beneath the seat and rising to support the arms and back.
  • scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
  • shortfin corvina — See under corvina.
  • shrinking violet — a shy, modest, or self-effacing person.
  • surveyor's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
  • thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
  • vapor channeling — Vapor channeling exists when vapor flow is distributed in an unequal way in a distillation vessel or stage.
  • ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
  • verbal diarrhoea — a tendency to speak at excessive length
  • weather advisory — advisory (def 5).
  • white-eyed vireo — a vireo, Vireo griseus, of eastern North America, having olive, yellow, and white plumage, a yellow ring around each eye, and white irises.
  • xaverian brother — a member of a congregation of Roman Catholic laymen bound by simple vows and dedicated to education.
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