13-letter words containing v, h, e
- driving wheel — Machinery. a main wheel that communicates motion to others.
- elevator shoe — a shoe designed to increase the wearer's height
- eleventh hour — If someone does something at the eleventh hour, they do it at the last possible moment.
- ethchlorvynol — A sedative and hypnotic drug used to treat insomnia.
- event horizon — the surface around a black hole enclosing the space from which electromagnetic radiation cannot escape due to gravitational attraction. For a non-rotating black hole, the radius is proportional to the mass of the black hole
- event theatre — spectacular and extravagantly-mounted theatrical productions collectively
- eventide home — a retirement home
- exhaust valve — An exhaust valve is a valve that releases burned gases from a cylinder.
- festival hall — a concert hall in London, on the South Bank of the Thames: constructed for the 1951 Festival of Britain; completed 1964–65
- fever therapy — therapy by means of an artificially induced fever.
- fifty-seventh — next after the fifty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 57.
- forty-seventh — next after the forty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 47.
- french endive — endive (def 2).
- get over with — If you want to get something unpleasant over with, you want to do it or finish experiencing it quickly, since you cannot avoid it.
- give birth to — an act or instance of being born: the day of his birth.
- give it heaps — to try very hard
- give mouth to — to express in speech; say
- give sb heart — If something gives you heart, it makes you feel more confident or happy about something.
- give the slip — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
- glove leather — a soft, smooth, pliable, stretchable leather.
- good behavior — satisfactory, proper, or polite conduct.
- grape harvest — gathering of ripe grapes from the vine
- graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
- grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
- gravity hinge — a hinge closing automatically by means of gravity.
- h and d curve — characteristic curve.
- hairpin curve — A hairpin curve or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
- half-silvered — (of a mirror) having an incomplete reflective coating, so that half the incident light is reflected and half transmitted: used in optical instruments and two-way mirrors
- hallucinative — a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders, or by reaction to certain toxic substances, and usually manifested as visual or auditory images.
- hand in glove — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hand-in-glove — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- harvest index — a measurement of crop yield: the weight of a harvested product as a percentage of the total plant weight of a crop.
- harvest mouse — an Old World field mouse, Micromys minutus, that builds a spherical nest among the stems of grains and other plants.
- harvester ant — any of several red or black ants, especially of the genus Pogonomyrmex, of the southwestern U.S., that feed on and store the seeds of grasses.
- have a bun on — have a bun on, Slang. to be intoxicated: Everyone at the party seemed to have a bun on.
- have a heart! — be kind or merciful
- have a mad on — to be angry
- have a record — to be a known criminal; have a previous conviction or convictions
- have eyes for — to be interested in
- have its uses — If you say that being something or knowing someone has its uses, you mean that it makes it possible for you to do what you otherwise would not be able to do.
- have occasion — If you have occasion to do something, it is necessary for you to do it.
- have the guts — be brave enough
- haven't lived — If you tell someone that they haven't lived unless they experience a particular thing, you are telling them that thing is extremely good and should be experienced.
- health-giving — conducive to health; salutary
- heave the log — to determine a ship's speed with such a device
- heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
- heavenly body — celestial object: star, planet, etc.
- heavenly city — the abode of God and His saints; heaven. Rev. 21:2.
- heavily built — with a big heavy body
- heavy cruiser — a naval cruiser having 8-inch (20.3-cm) guns as its main armament.