13-letter words containing t, h, e, v, r
- over the odds — more than is expected, necessary, etc
- over-shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- over-the-road — of, for, or pertaining to transportation on public highways: over-the-road trucks.
- over-vehement — characterized by rancor or anger; violent: vehement hostility.
- overbreathing — hyperventilation
- overhand knot — a simple knot of various uses that slips easily.
- overhastiness — the condition of being overhasty
- overhead-shot — over one's head; aloft; up in the air or sky, especially near the zenith: There was a cloud overhead.
- overnight bag — a travel bag large enough to hold personal articles and clothing for an overnight trip.
- overstretched — to stretch excessively.
- private hotel — a residential hotel or boarding house in which the proprietor has the right to refuse to accept a person as a guest, esp a person arriving by chance
- prohibitively — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- ride the wave — to enjoy a period of success and good fortune
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- seventh chord — a chord formed by the superposition of three thirds.
- seventh grade — school year: age 12-13
- seventy-third — next after the seventy-second; being the ordinal number for 73.
- seventy-three — a cardinal number, 70 plus 3.
- shaver outlet — a point in a wall, esp in a bathroom, where you can connect an electric razor to the power supply
- shirt-sleeves — not wearing a jacket; informally dressed: a shirt-sleeve mob.
- short-sleeved — having short sleeves
- silver-y moth — a brownish noctuid moth, Plusia gamma, having a light Y-shaped marking on each forewing; it migrates in large flocks
- the adversary — Satan
- the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
- the hué river — a river in central Vietnam that crosses the port of Hué
- the levellers — a radical group on the Parliamentarian side during the Civil War that advocated republicanism, freedom of worship, etc
- the narrative — the part of a literary work that relates events
- the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
- theatre lover — sb who enjoys going to plays
- thermic fever — sunstroke.
- throw a curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- touch a nerve — to mention or bring to mind a sensitive issue or subject
- trophic level — any class of organisms that occupy the same position in a food chain, as primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers.
- typhoid fever — Also called typhoid fever. an infectious, often fatal, febrile disease, usually of the summer months, characterized by intestinal inflammation and ulceration, caused by the typhoid bacillus, which is usually introduced with food or drink.
- vapourer moth — a tussock moth, Orgyia antiqua, of hedgerows and trees, the female of which is wingless and lays her eggs on her former cocoon
- varied thrush — a plump thrush, Ixoreus naevius, of western North America, resembling a robin with a dark band across the chest.
- white slavery — the condition of or traffic in white slaves.
- white vitriol — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble powder, ZnSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O, used for preserving skins and wood, in the electrodeposition of zinc, in the bleaching of paper, as a mordant in calico printing, and in medicine as an astringent, styptic, and emetic.
- white-livered — lacking courage; cowardly; lily-livered.
- whithersoever — Wherever.
- wolverhampton — a city in West Midlands, in W England.