13-letter words containing v, h, e
- nonexhaustive — exhausting a subject, topic, etc.; comprehensive; thorough: He published an exhaustive study of Greek vases.
- north andover — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- north vietnam — that part of Vietnam N of about 17° N; formerly a part of French Indochina; separate republic 1954–75.
- 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.
- nowheresville — a remote or isolated town or village.
- on every hand — on all sides; in all directions
- on the eve of — the evening before
- orchard valve — an alfalfa valve of lesser diameter than the pipe it closes.
- over the hill — a natural elevation of the earth's surface, smaller than a mountain.
- over the hump — a rounded protuberance, especially a fleshy protuberance on the back, as that due to abnormal curvature of the spine in humans, or that normally present in certain animals, as the camel or bison.
- over the moon — extremely joyful
- over the odds — more than is expected, necessary, etc
- over-achiever — to perform, especially academically, above the potential indicated by tests of one's mental ability or aptitude.
- 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.
- overachievers — Plural form of overachiever.
- overachieving — Present participle of overachieve.
- overbreathing — hyperventilation
- overembellish — Make (something) too ornate or complicated.
- overemphasise — (British) alternative spelling of overemphasize.
- overemphasize — to emphasize excessively.
- overhand knot — a simple knot of various uses that slips easily.
- overhastiness — the condition of being overhasty
- overhead door — a door that rotates on a horizontal axis and is supported horizontally when open
- 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.
- overnourished — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- overstretched — to stretch excessively.
- pas de cheval — a step in which the dancer hops on one foot and paws the ground with the other.
- peanut heaven — peanut gallery (def 1).
- philippeville — former name of Skikda.
- photonegative — pertaining to a substance, as selenium, having a conductivity that decreases upon absorption of electromagnetic radiation.
- photopositive — pertaining to a substance whose conductivity increases upon absorption of electromagnetic radiation.
- 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
- privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
- prohibitively — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- rayleigh wave — a wave along the surface of a solid, elastic body, especially along the surface of the earth.
- 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
- ride the wave — to enjoy a period of success and good fortune
- river dolphin — any freshwater cetacean of the family Platanistidae, inhabiting rivers of North and South America and S Asia. They are smaller than marine dolphins and have a longer narrower snout
- river fishing — the sport of fishing in rivers
- 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
- self-adhesive — having a side or surface coated with an adhesive substance to permit sticking without glue, paste, or the like: a self-adhesive label; self-adhesive ceramic tiles.