13-letter words containing r, a, v, e, h
- merchant navy — commercial ships
- milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
- mohave desert — a desert in S California: part of the Great Basin. About 15,000 sq. mi. (38,850 sq. km).
- movie theater — a motion-picture theater.
- much-traveled — A much-traveled person has traveled a lot in foreign countries.
- nigger heaven — peanut gallery (def 1).
- north andover — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- north vietnam — that part of Vietnam N of about 17° N; formerly a part of French Indochina; separate republic 1954–75.
- nouveau riche — a person who is newly rich: the ostentation of the nouveaux riches of the 1920s.
- novocherkassk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Rostov.
- 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.
- 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
- privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
- rayleigh wave — a wave along the surface of a solid, elastic body, especially along the surface of the earth.
- ride the wave — to enjoy a period of success and good fortune
- riviera beach — a town in SE Florida.
- school leaver — School leavers are young people who have just left school, because they have completed their time there.
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- seventh grade — school year: age 12-13
- shaver outlet — a point in a wall, esp in a bathroom, where you can connect an electric razor to the power supply
- shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
- 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.
- silver halide — a compound in which silver is combined with a halogen, as silver chloride, bromide, or iodide.
- silver-haired — having silver coloured hair
- slasher movie — a film in which victims, often women, are slashed with knives, razors, etc
- spanish river — a river in S Ontario, Canada, flowing S into the North Channel of Lake Huron. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- superachiever — someone who achieves more than most; high achiever
- the adversary — Satan
- the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
- the narrative — the part of a literary work that relates events
- 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
- underachiever — a student who performs less well in school than would be expected on the basis of abilities indicated by intelligence and aptitude tests, etc.