12-letter words containing s, h, v, e
- hiv positive — (of a person) diagnosed by a test as being infected with HIV.
- hiv-positive — (of a person) diagnosed by a test as being infected with HIV.
- hoovervilles — a collection of huts and shacks, as at the edge of a city, housing the unemployed during the 1930s.
- hopkinsville — a city in S Kentucky.
- hudson river — Henry, died 1611? English navigator and explorer.
- hypertensive — characterized by or causing high blood pressure.
- impoverished — reduced to poverty.
- impoverisher — Someone who impoverishes.
- impoverishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impoverish.
- inexhaustive — not exhaustive; not thorough
- introvertish — Introverted.
- javelin fish — a fish of the genus Pomadasys of semitropical Australian seas with a long spine on its anal fin
- katharevousa — The purist form of modern Greek used in traditional literary writing, as opposed to the form that is spoken and used in everyday writing (called demotic).
- liverishness — Quality of being liverish.
- love handles — fat midriff
- misbehaviour — (British) alternative spelling of misbehavior.
- mischievious — Misconstruction of mischievous.
- nevertheless — nonetheless; notwithstanding; however; in spite of that: a small but nevertheless important change.
- non-cohesive — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
- observership — someone or something that observes.
- overemphasis — excessive or undue emphasis.
- overfinished — having an excessively polished finish
- overflourish — to flourish excessively
- overlordship — a person who is lord over another or over other lords: to obey the will of one's sovereign and overlord.
- overpurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- overrashness — the act of being overrash
- overscutched — overworked; worn out
- overshipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- phrasal verb — a combination of verb and one or more adverbial or prepositional particles, as catch on, take off, bring up, or put up with, functioning as a single semantic unit and often having an idiomatic meaning that could not be predicted from the meanings of the individual parts.
- post-harvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- power shovel — any self-propelled shovel for excavating earth, ore, or coal with a dipper that is powered by a diesel engine or electric motor. Compare shovel (def 2).
- psychoactive — of or relating to a substance having a profound or significant effect on mental processes: a psychoactive drug.
- receivership — the condition of being in the hands of a receiver.
- reprehensive — the act of reprehending; reproof; censure.
- reverse shot — a shot that views the action from the opposite side of the previous shot, as during a conversation between two actors, giving the effect of looking from one actor to the other.
- save the day — solve a problem for sb
- schererville — a town in NW Indiana.
- scheveningen — a town in the W Netherlands, near The Hague: seaside resort.
- serving dish — a dish in which food is presented or served, esp before being shared into individual portions
- servitorship — the office or position of a servitor; the condition of being a servitor
- shavano peak — a mountain in central Colorado, in the S Sawatch Range, in the Rocky Mountains. 14,229 feet (4337 meters).
- shevardnadze — Eduard A [ed-werd;; Russian ed-wahrt] /ˈɛd wərd;; Russian ɛdˈwɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1928–2014, Soviet foreign minister 1985–91; president of his native Georgian Republic 1995–2003.
- shirt-sleeve — not wearing a jacket; informally dressed: a shirt-sleeve mob.
- shirtsleeved — not wearing a jacket or coat
- shovel-nosed — having the head, snout, or beak broad and flat like the blade of a shovel.
- shovel-ready — of or relating to a construction project that is ready to start immediately
- silver birch — tree with silvery-white bark
- silver perch — Also called mademoiselle. Ichthyology. a drum, Bairdiella chrysoura, of southern U.S. waters.
- sivapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene primates of Asia that resemble the modern orangutan.
- smother-love — a relationship between a parent and child in which the parent is over-protective to the extent that the child's normal psychological development is inhibited