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

  • huevos rancheros — a Latin American dish of eggs, usually fried or poached, topped with a spicy tomato sauce and sometimes served on a fried corn tortilla with the addition of vegetables and cheese.
  • hypersensitivity — excessively sensitive: to be hypersensitive to criticism.
  • hypervascularity — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
  • hypervitaminosis — an abnormal condition caused by an excessive intake of vitamins.
  • in heaven's name — You can use in heaven's name in questions beginning with 'what', 'when', 'who', 'why', 'when', and 'how' to add emphasis in a way that shows that you are very angry or surprised.
  • in the seventies — in the range between 70 and 79 degrees on a given temperature scale, esp the Fahrenheit scale
  • incentive scheme — an arrangement under which additional payments are made to employees as a means of increasing production
  • invisible shadow — (in architectural shades and shadows) a three-dimensional space occupied by the shadow projected by a solid and within which a surface is in shadow.
  • lake havasu city — a city in W central Arizona.
  • live in the past — If you accuse someone of living in the past, you mean that they think too much about the past or believe that things are the same as they were in the past.
  • liver of sulphur — a mixture of potassium sulphides used as a fungicide and insecticide and in the treatment of skin diseases
  • machiavellianism — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
  • medieval cornish — the Cornish language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 14th century to 1600.
  • medieval history — the branch of history dealing with the Middle Ages
  • merchant service — A merchant service is a provider of credit card processing services.
  • mover and shaker — a person who has power and influence, esp., a member of a group having power and influence
  • north vietnamese — relating to North Vietnam or its people
  • nusslein-volhard — Christiane [kris-tee-ah-nuh,, kris-tyah-] /ˌkrɪs tiˈɑ nə,, krɪsˈtyɑ-/ (Show IPA), born 1942, German biologist: Nobel prize 1995.
  • on the defensive — If someone is on the defensive, they are trying to protect themselves or their interests because they feel unsure or threatened.
  • over the transom — by unsolicited submission, as to a publisher
  • over-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
  • overenthusiastic — full of or characterized by enthusiasm; ardent: He seems very enthusiastic about his role in the play.
  • overwhelmingness — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
  • ovshinsky effect — an effect that turns special types of glassy, thin films into semiconductors upon application of low voltage.
  • photosensitivity — the quality of being photosensitive.
  • plutarch's lives — (Parallel Lives) a collection (a.d. 105–15) by Plutarch of short biographies of the leading political figures of ancient Greece and Rome.
  • presumptive heir — heir presumptive.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • shopping village — a shopping centre that designed to look like a village
  • shrinking violet — a shy, modest, or self-effacing person.
  • shuttle movement — the movement of a component from one place to another and back to its original position
  • south vietnamese — of or relating to the former South Vietnam (now part of Vietnam) or its inhabitants
  • 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.
  • swedish vallhund — a small sturdy dog of a Swedish breed with a long body and pricked pointed ears
  • thaddeus stevens — Alfred, 1817–75, English painter and sculptor.
  • the beaver state — a name for the state of Oregon
  • the heavens open — If the heavens open, it suddenly starts raining very heavily.
  • the noes have it — there is a majority of votes in the negative
  • 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
  • thick as thieves — very close friends
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