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16-letter words containing r, e, v, h

  • re-entry vehicle — the section of a spacecraft or ballistic missile designed to return to earth.
  • reap the harvest — If you reap the harvest, you benefit or suffer from the results of your past actions or of someone else's past actions.
  • rear-wheel drive — a layout in motor vehicles which places the engine at the front and the driven wheels at the rear
  • 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
  • reverse a charge — If you reverse a charge on a credit card, you put the amount you have charged back into the credit card account.
  • right-hand drive — A right-hand drive vehicle has its steering wheel on the right side. It is designed to be driven in countries such as Britain, Japan, and Australia where people drive on the left side of the road.
  • scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
  • shaker and mover — mover and shaker
  • sheet-web weaver — any of numerous spiders of the family Linyphiidae, characterized by a closely woven, sheetlike web.
  • shoemaker-levy 9 — a comet that was captured into an orbit around Jupiter and later broke up, the fragments colliding with Jupiter in July 1995
  • shrinking violet — a shy, modest, or self-effacing person.
  • splanchnic nerve — Anatomy. any of several nerves to the viscera and blood vessels of the chest and pelvic areas.
  • superheavyweight — an amateur boxer weighing more than 91 kg
  • 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 beaver state — a name for the state of Oregon
  • the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
  • the renosterveld — an area of high altitude in SW South Africa, having fertile ground
  • the silver ferns — the women's international netball team of New Zealand
  • the silver state — the nickname of the US state of Nevada, which comes from the large amount of silver discovered and mined there
  • the unobservable — something that cannot be observed
  • the virgin queen — another name for Queen Elizabeth I of England
  • thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
  • traveler's check — a check issued in any of various denominations by a bank, travel agency, etc., that is signed by the purchaser upon purchase and again, in the presence of the payee, when cashing the check or using it to pay for goods or services.
  • underpitch vault — a construction having a central vault intersected by vaults of lower pitch.
  • valet de chambre — valet (def 1).
  • vapor channeling — Vapor channeling exists when vapor flow is distributed in an unequal way in a distillation vessel or stage.
  • vauxhall gardens — a public garden at Vauxhall, laid out in 1661; a fashionable meeting place and site of lavish entertainments. Closed in 1859
  • ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
  • verbal diarrhoea — a tendency to speak at excessive length
  • visiting teacher — a teacher in a public school system, assigned to give home instruction to sick or disabled pupils.
  • vitamin-enriched — having had vitamins added
  • voluntary helper — a person who aids or assists in a specified function of one's own accord and without compulsion or promise of remuneration
  • weather advisory — advisory (def 5).
  • weighted average — a mean that is computed with extra weight given to one or more elements of the sample.
  • whatever sb does — You say whatever you do when giving advice or warning someone about something.
  • whirling dervish — a member of a Turkish order of dervishes, or Sufis, whose ritual consists in part of a highly stylized whirling dance.
  • 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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