13-letter words containing v, c, h
- hypervascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- hypervelocity — extremely high velocity, as of projectiles, space vehicles, or accelerated nuclear particles.
- invalid chair — a chair specially designed for an invalid to sit in
- level 1 cache — primary cache
- level 2 cache — secondary cache
- light vehicle — a vehicle designed to carry loads or a small number of passengers up to an officially determined weight, such as a scooter, motorbike, rickshaw, etc
- machiavellian — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
- machiavellism — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
- manhole cover — a removable metal plate covering a shaft that leads down to a sewer or drain
- merchant navy — commercial ships
- mikhailovitch — Draja [drah-zhah] /ˈdrɑ ʒɑ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1946, Yugoslav military leader.
- mischievously — maliciously or playfully annoying.
- motor vehicle — an automobile, truck, bus, or similar motor-driven conveyance.
- much-traveled — A much-traveled person has traveled a lot in foreign countries.
- nicholasville — a town in central Kentucky.
- nonchauvinist — a person who is not a chauvinist
- nouveau riche — a person who is newly rich: the ostentation of the nouveaux riches of the 1920s.
- novocherkassk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Rostov.
- orchard valve — an alfalfa valve of lesser diameter than the pipe it closes.
- over-achiever — to perform, especially academically, above the potential indicated by tests of one's mental ability or aptitude.
- overachievers — Plural form of overachiever.
- overachieving — Present participle of overachieve.
- overstretched — to stretch excessively.
- pas de cheval — a step in which the dancer hops on one foot and paws the ground with the other.
- photovoltaics — (used with a singular verb) a field of semiconductor technology involving the direct conversion of electromagnetic radiation as sunlight, into electricity.
- privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
- recovery ship — a naval vessel designed to participate in the retrieval of a satellite, instrument package, or spaceship after it has re-entered the atmosphere and landed in the ocean
- riviera beach — a town in SE Florida.
- school leaver — School leavers are young people who have just left school, because they have completed their time there.
- schuylerville — a village in E New York, on the Hudson: scene of Burgoyne's defeat and surrender in the Battle of Saratoga 1777.
- scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- scrivenership — the position of being a scrivener or scribe; scribing
- 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.
- shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
- shaving stick — a piece of shaving foam moulded into a slender shape and held in a slender container for ease of application to the face when removing hair with a razor
- silvichemical — any of a number of chemicals derived from a tree.
- superachiever — someone who achieves more than most; high achiever
- the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
- the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
- thermic fever — sunstroke.
- thieves' cant — slang used by thieves
- throw a curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- to play havoc — If one thing plays havoc with another or wreaks havoc on it, it prevents it from continuing or functioning as normal, or damages it.
- 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.
- underachiever — a student who performs less well in school than would be expected on the basis of abilities indicated by intelligence and aptitude tests, etc.
- valence-shell — an electron of an atom, located in the outermost shell (valence shell) of the atom, that can be transferred to or shared with another atom.
- vanishing act — a vanishing act is when someone is impossible to contact, or disappears from public view