11-letter words containing r, e, v, h
- rhone river — a river flowing from the Alps in S Switzerland through the Lake of Geneva and SE France into the Mediterranean. 504 miles (810 km) long.
- river birch — a tree, Betula nigra, of the eastern U.S., having papery, reddish-brown bark that peels away.
- river horse — a hippopotamus.
- river-mouth — an estuary
- riverworthy — (of a boat) able to cross or sail a river safely
- servanthood — the condition of being a servant
- shaft grave — a grave consisting of a deep, rectangular pit with vertical sides, roofed over with a stone slab.
- sharonville — a town in SW Ohio.
- sharpeville — a town in E South Africa: scene of riots in 1960 (when 69 demonstrators died), 1984, and 1985 (when 19 died)
- shcherbakov — a former name (1946–57) of Andropov.
- shift lever — the lever mounted on the steering column or floor of a vehicle that enables the driver to shift gears.
- shirtsleeve — not wearing a jacket; informally dressed: a shirt-sleeve mob.
- shiveringly — in a shivering manner, usually from cold or fright
- shore leave — permission to spend time ashore, usually 48 hours or more, granted a member of a ship's company.
- short novel — a prose narrative midway between the novel and the short story in length and scope
- short-lived — living or lasting only a little while.
- shovelboard — the game of shuffleboard.
- silver hake — a common hake, Merluccius bilinearis, occurring off the Atlantic coast of North America and popular as a food fish.
- silver thaw — glaze (def 17).
- silverchair — Australian rock group (formed 1994): comprising Daniel Johns (born 1979; vocals, guitar), Ben Gillies (born 1979, drums) and Chris Joannou (born 1979, bass guitar); their albums include Frogstomp (1995) and Young Modern (2007)
- silversmith — a person whose occupation is making and repairing articles of silver.
- slaveholder — an owner of slaves.
- slough over — to gloss over; minimize
- smooth over — free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
- south river — a borough in central New Jersey.
- stevengraph — a small picture woven in colored silk thread: introduced in 1879 and mass-produced on a Jacquard-type loom.
- survey ship — a vessel designed to carry out research and surveying
- switch over — If you switch over when you are watching television, you change to another channel.
- tchervonetz — chervonets.
- thanksgiver — a person who gives thanks.
- the algarve — an area in the south of Portugal, on the Atlantic; it approximately corresponds to the administrative district of Faro: fishing and tourism important
- the shivers — an attack of shivering, esp through fear or illness
- the vapours — a depressed mental condition believed originally to be the result of vaporous exhalations from the stomach
- the wharves — the working area of a dock
- thirty-five — a cardinal number, 30 plus 5.
- thoreauvian — Henry David, 1817–62, U.S. naturalist and author.
- thorvaldsen — Albert Bertal [ahl-bert bar-tuh l] /ˈɑl bɛrt ˈbær təl/ (Show IPA), 1770–1844, Danish sculptor.
- thrash over — to go over (a problem, etc.) in great detail
- thread vein — a small red or purple capillary near to the surface of the skin
- thumb drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
- travel shot — a camera shot taken from a mobile platform, dolly, or the like, that keeps within range of a moving subject.
- truth-value — the truth or falsehood of a proposition: The truth-value of “2 + 2 = 5” is falsehood.
- turishcheva — Ludmilla (lʊdˈmɪlə). born 1952, Soviet gymnast: world champion 1970, 1972 (at the Olympic Games), and 1974
- unharvested — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- unvarnished — plain; clear; straightforward; without vagueness or subterfuge; frank: the unvarnished truth.
- van der hum — a spicy liqueur from South Africa, flavored with tangerine and herbs.
- vapor phase — In its vapor phase a substance can be condensed to a liquid or to a solid by increasing its pressure without reducing the temperature.
- vellus hair — short fine unpigmented hair covering the human body
- venographic — of or relating to venography
- venus'-hair — a maidenhair fern (Adiantum capillus-veneris) of tropical America and the S U.S.