11-letter words containing o, v, e
- gas vacuole — a gas-filled structure that provides buoyancy in some aquatic bacteria
- geneva gown — a loose, large-sleeved, black preaching gown worn by members of the Protestant clergy: so named from its use by the Calvinist clergy of Geneva, Switzerland.
- gerlachovka — a mountain in N Slovakia: highest peak of the Carpathian Mountains. 8737 feet (2663 meters).
- give a hoot — not care
- give a toss — If you say that you do not give a toss about someone or something, you are emphasizing that you do not care about them at all.
- give ground — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
- give it hot — to punish or thrash someone
- give notice — warn, inform
- give way to — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- globe valve — a valve with a globular body, closed by a disk seating on an opening in an internal wall.
- glove maker — someone who makes gloves
- go ape over — to become crazy or extremely enthusiastic about
- gouvernante — (archaic) governess.
- gouvernment — Obsolete form of government.
- governesses — Plural form of governess.
- governments — Plural form of government.
- governmenty — pompous.
- governorate — an administrative division of a country, especially Egypt.
- graminivore — An herbivorous animal, a grazer, that feeds primarily on grasses.
- graverobber — a person who steals valuables from graves and tombs: Graverobbers had emptied the Mayan tomb before archaeologists could examine its contents.
- gravestones — Plural form of gravestone.
- gregory vii — Saint (Hildebrand) c1020–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1073–85.
- gregory xiv — (Niccolò Sfandrati) 1535–91, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1590–91.
- gregory xvi — (Bartolommeo Alberto Cappellari) 1765–1846, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1831–46.
- grey plover — the black-bellied plover.
- gros ventre — a river in W central Wyoming, flowing W to the Snake River. 100 miles (161 km) long.
- ground dove — any of several small terrestrial doves of the warmer parts of the Americas, especially Columbina passerina.
- ground wave — a radio wave that propagates on or near the earth's surface and is affected by the ground and the troposphere.
- groundcover — Alternative spelling of ground cover.
- grovelingly — Alternative form of grovellingly.
- half volley — tennis: returning ball after it bounces
- half-volley — (in tennis, racquets, etc.) a stroke in which the ball is hit the moment it bounces from the ground.
- have a moan — If you have a moan, you complain about something.
- have got to — must
- have gotten — to have obtained
- have it off — to have sexual intercourse
- have it out — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- hazel grove — a plantation of hazel trees
- heaven-born — of or as of heavenly origin: the heaven-born gods.
- heavy going — a soft and muddy surface to race on
- herbivorous — feeding on plants.
- hercegovina — Herzegovina.
- hereinabove — before in this document, statement, etc.
- herzegovina — a historic region in SE Europe: a former Turkish province; a part of Austria-Hungary 1878–1914; now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- hircocervus — (in classical and medieval fable) a mythical creature that is half goat and half stag
- hodgenville — a town in central Kentucky: birthplace of Abraham Lincoln.
- holy clover — sainfoin.
- home-loving — fond of one's home
- hooverville — a collection of huts and shacks, as at the edge of a city, housing the unemployed during the 1930s.
- horn silver — cerargyrite.