11-letter words containing v, e, r
- gouvernment — Obsolete form of government.
- governesses — Plural form of governess.
- governments — Plural form of government.
- governmenty — pompous.
- governorate — an administrative division of a country, especially Egypt.
- graminivore — An herbivorous animal, a grazer, that feeds primarily on grasses.
- grand haven — a city in W Michigan.
- grand river — former name of the Colorado River above its junction with the Green River in SE Utah.
- gravedigger — a person whose occupation is digging graves.
- graveldiver — any of several eellike fishes of the family Scytalinidae, found off the Pacific coast of North America, especially Scytalina cerdale, which burrows among rocks.
- gravenstein — a variety of large, yellow apple with red streaks
- graverobber — a person who steals valuables from graves and tombs: Graverobbers had emptied the Mayan tomb before archaeologists could examine its contents.
- gravestones — Plural form of gravestone.
- gravidities — Plural form of gravidity.
- gravimeters — Plural form of gravimeter.
- gravimetric — of or relating to measurement by weight.
- gravisphere — the area in which the gravitational force of a celestial body is predominant.
- gravitative — of or relating to gravitation.
- gravity-fed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- green river — Henrietta Howland Robinson ("Hetty") 1835–1916, U.S. financier.
- greeneville — a city in E Tennessee.
- gregory vii — Saint (Hildebrand) c1020–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1073–85.
- gregory xiv — (Niccolò Sfandrati) 1535–91, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1590–91.
- gregory xvi — (Bartolommeo Alberto Cappellari) 1765–1846, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1831–46.
- grey plover — the black-bellied plover.
- gros ventre — a river in W central Wyoming, flowing W to the Snake River. 100 miles (161 km) long.
- ground dove — any of several small terrestrial doves of the warmer parts of the Americas, especially Columbina passerina.
- ground wave — a radio wave that propagates on or near the earth's surface and is affected by the ground and the troposphere.
- groundcover — Alternative spelling of ground cover.
- grovelingly — Alternative form of grovellingly.
- hairweaving — the attachment of matching hair to a base of nylon thread interwoven with a person's own hair, as to cover a bald area or to add length: Three of the makeovers involved hairweaving.
- hairy vetch — a plant, Vicia villosa, of the legume family, native to Eurasia, having hairy stems and violet and white flowers, widely grown as forage and as a cover crop.
- hardly ever — rarely
- harvest fly — cicada
- harvestable — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- harvestfish — a butterfish of the genus Peprilus, especially P. alepidotus of Atlantic waters.
- harvesttime — the time of year when a crop or crops are harvested, especially autumn.
- have a care — to be careful
- hazel grove — a plantation of hazel trees
- headscarves — Plural form of headscarf.
- heart river — a river in SW North Dakota, flowing E to the Missouri River. 180 miles (290 km) long.
- heaven-born — of or as of heavenly origin: the heaven-born gods.
- heavenwards — Also, heavenwards. toward heaven.
- heavy cream — thick cream having a high percentage of butterfat.
- heavy crude — a type of crude oil that does not flow easily and has greater viscosity and specific density than other types of crude
- heavy water — water in which hydrogen atoms have been replaced by deuterium, used chiefly as a coolant in nuclear reactors.
- herbivorous — feeding on plants.
- hercegovina — Herzegovina.
- hereinabove — before in this document, statement, etc.
- herpesvirus — a DNA-containing virus of the family Herpesviridae, certain members of which cause such diseases in humans as oral and genital herpes, infectious mononucleosis, chickenpox, and shingles.