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12-letter words containing v, h, e

  • reprehensive — the act of reprehending; reproof; censure.
  • reverse shot — a shot that views the action from the opposite side of the previous shot, as during a conversation between two actors, giving the effect of looking from one actor to the other.
  • rough-voiced — having a harsh or grating voice: a rough-voiced barker.
  • save the day — solve a problem for sb
  • schererville — a town in NW Indiana.
  • scheveningen — a town in the W Netherlands, near The Hague: seaside resort.
  • serving dish — a dish in which food is presented or served, esp before being shared into individual portions
  • servitorship — the office or position of a servitor; the condition of being a servitor
  • shavano peak — a mountain in central Colorado, in the S Sawatch Range, in the Rocky Mountains. 14,229 feet (4337 meters).
  • shevardnadze — Eduard A [ed-werd;; Russian ed-wahrt] /ˈɛd wərd;; Russian ɛdˈwɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1928–2014, Soviet foreign minister 1985–91; president of his native Georgian Republic 1995–2003.
  • shirt-sleeve — not wearing a jacket; informally dressed: a shirt-sleeve mob.
  • shirtsleeved — not wearing a jacket or coat
  • shovel-nosed — having the head, snout, or beak broad and flat like the blade of a shovel.
  • shovel-ready — of or relating to a construction project that is ready to start immediately
  • silver birch — tree with silvery-white bark
  • silver perch — Also called mademoiselle. Ichthyology. a drum, Bairdiella chrysoura, of southern U.S. waters.
  • sivapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene primates of Asia that resemble the modern orangutan.
  • smother-love — a relationship between a parent and child in which the parent is over-protective to the extent that the child's normal psychological development is inhibited
  • spring vetch — any of several mostly climbing plants belonging to the genus Vicia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves ending in tendrils and bearing pealike flowers, especially V. sativa (spring vetch) cultivated for forage and soil improvement.
  • stakhanovite — a worker in the Soviet Union who regularly surpassed production quotas and was specially honored and rewarded.
  • steam shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
  • steam-shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
  • stephen viii — died a.d. 942, pope 939–942.
  • stephenville — a town in central Texas.
  • swivel chair — a chair whose seat turns around horizontally on a swivel.
  • thames river — a river in S England, flowing E through London to the North Sea. 209 miles (336 km) long.
  • the bereaved — the survivors of a person who has died recently
  • the bushveld — an area of low altitude in N South Africa, having scrub vegetation
  • the devonian — the Devonian period or rock system
  • the divinity — God
  • the evil one — the devil; Satan
  • the highveld — the high-altitude grassland region of E South Africa
  • the nativity — the birth of Jesus
  • the new wave — a movement in the French cinema of the 1960s, led by such directors as Godard, Truffaut, and Resnais, characterized by a fluid use of the camera and an abandonment of traditional editing techniques
  • the services — the armed forces
  • the varletry — rabble; mob
  • the-overcoat — a short story (1842) by Gogol.
  • thermomotive — pertaining to motion produced by heat.
  • thirty-seven — a cardinal number, 30 plus 7.
  • thortveitite — a scandium yttrium silicate mineral occurring in grayish-green orthorhombic crystals.
  • three rivers — a city in S Quebec, in SE Canada, on the St. Lawrence.
  • three-valued — of or relating to propositions having a value other than truth or falsity.
  • thrivingness — the state or condition of thriving, flourishing, prospering or growing
  • travel light — If you travel light, you travel without taking much luggage.
  • trench fever — a recurrent fever, often suffered by soldiers in trenches in World War I, caused by a rickettsia transmitted by the body louse.
  • tsesarevitch — (in Russian history) the eldest son of a tsar or his heir apparent
  • typhus-fever — an acute, infectious disease caused by several species of Rickettsia, transmitted by lice and fleas, and characterized by acute prostration, headache, and a peculiar eruption of reddish spots on the body.
  • unachievable — to bring to a successful end; carry through; accomplish: The police crackdown on speeders achieved its purpose.
  • underachieve — to perform, especially academically, below the potential indicated by tests of one's mental ability or aptitude.
  • unexhaustive — exhausting a subject, topic, etc.; comprehensive; thorough: He published an exhaustive study of Greek vases.
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