14-letter words containing s, h, v, e
- shield volcano — a broad volcano built up from the repeated nonexplosive eruption of basalt to form a low dome or shield, usually having a large caldera at the summit
- shipping fever — a respiratory disease of cattle, caused by Pasteurella haemolytica, often spread during the shipment of livestock.
- short covering — purchases that close out short sales on stocks or commodities.
- shove-ha'penny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
- shrove tuesday — the last day of Shrovetide, long observed as a season of merrymaking before Lent.
- sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
- southern slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
- souvenir sheet — a single stamp or a pair, block, or set of stamps having the same or different designs commemorating a stamp exhibition or other event and having inscriptions in one or all four margins.
- st. john's eve — Midsummer Eve.
- szekesfehervar — a city in W central Hungary.
- the everglades — a subtropical marshy region of Florida, south of Lake Okeechobee: contains the Everglades National Park established to preserve the flora and fauna of the swamps. Area: over 13 000 sq km (5000 sq miles)
- the five towns — the name given in his fiction by Arnold Bennett to the Potteries towns (actually six in number) of Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent, and Tunstall, now part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent
- the reverse of — emphatically not; not at all
- the visitation — the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth: Luke 1:39-56
- think positive — be optimistic
- thirty-seventh — next after the thirty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 37.
- twenty-seventh — next after the twenty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 27.
- unapprehensive — slow to understand; not intelligent
- unvanquishable — not able to be vanquished or overcome; unconquerable; undefeatable
- v-shaped curve — a curve on a graph that shows a sharp fall followed by a correspondingly sharp rise
- vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
- vegetable dish — a dish designed to serve vegetables from
- vestavia hills — a city in central Alabama, near Birmingham.
- village school — a school in a village
- visible speech — the representation in graphic or pictorial form of characteristics of speech, as by means of sound spectrograms.
- vitreous humor — the transparent gelatinous substance filling the eyeball behind the crystalline lens.
- volksdeutscher — a member of the German people, especially one of a community having its home outside of Germany, usually in central or eastern Europe.
- vote of thanks — A vote of thanks is an official speech in which the speaker formally thanks a person for doing something.
- voucher system — Accounting. a procedure for controlling disbursements by means of vouchers.
- wave mechanics — a form of quantum mechanics formulated in terms of a wave equation, as the Schrödinger equation.
- weaver's hitch — sheet bend.
- whiplash-curve — the lash of a whip.