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14-letter words containing v, h, e

  • st. john's eve — Midsummer Eve.
  • szekesfehervar — a city in W central Hungary.
  • target vehicle — a spacecraft used to develop and practise orbital space rendezvous and docking techniques in preparation for the lunar missions
  • the everglades — a subtropical marshy region of Florida, south of Lake Okeechobee: contains the Everglades National Park established to preserve the flora and fauna of the swamps. Area: over 13 000 sq km (5000 sq miles)
  • the five towns — the name given in his fiction by Arnold Bennett to the Potteries towns (actually six in number) of Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent, and Tunstall, now part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent
  • the inevitable — something that is unavoidable
  • the ivy league — a group of eight universities (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth College, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale) that have similar academic and social prestige in the US to Oxford and Cambridge in Britain
  • the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
  • the pole vault — a field event in which competitors attempt to clear a high bar with the aid of an extremely flexible long pole
  • the reverse of — emphatically not; not at all
  • the vernacular — the commonly spoken language or dialect of a particular people or place
  • the very devil — something very difficult or awkward
  • the very idea! — that is preposterous, unreasonable, etc
  • the visitation — the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth: Luke 1:39-56
  • the world over — If you say that something happens or exists the world over, you mean that it happens or exists in every part of the world.
  • think positive — be optimistic
  • thirty-seventh — next after the thirty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 37.
  • throttle lever — throttle (def 1).
  • throttle valve — a valve for throttling the working fluid of an engine, refrigerator, etc.
  • to have had it — If you say that someone has had it, you mean they are in very serious trouble or have no hope of succeeding.
  • to have it out — If you have it out or have things out with someone, you discuss a problem or disagreement very openly with them, even if it means having an argument, because you think this is the best way to solve the problem.
  • travel voucher — a voucher, usually bought from a travel agency or won in a competition, etc, which can be used to pay for travel costs such as flights, accommodation, etc
  • tree of heaven — an Asiatic tree, Ailanthus altissima, having large oblong leaves and rank-smelling flowers, often planted as a shade tree.
  • twenty-seventh — next after the twenty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 27.
  • ubv photometry — the photometric measurement of the color index of a star, using ultraviolet, blue, and visual (yellow) filters.
  • unapprehensive — slow to understand; not intelligent
  • under-achiever — a student who performs less well in school than would be expected on the basis of abilities indicated by intelligence and aptitude tests, etc.
  • unvanquishable — not able to be vanquished or overcome; unconquerable; undefeatable
  • v-shaped curve — a curve on a graph that shows a sharp fall followed by a correspondingly sharp rise
  • variable-pitch — (of a propeller) controllable-pitch.
  • vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
  • vector graphic — a computer image that is stored in memory as lines rather than a series of dots, allowing it to be rotated or proportionally scaled.
  • vegetable dish — a dish designed to serve vegetables from
  • vestavia hills — a city in central Alabama, near Birmingham.
  • vexillographer — a person who designs or makes flags.
  • victor charlie — a Vietcong or the Vietcong; the VC.
  • village school — a school in a village
  • vinyl chloride — a colorless, easily liquefied, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, C 2 H 3 Cl, having a pleasant, etherlike odor: used in the manufacture of plastics, as a refrigerant, and in the synthesis of polyvinyl chloride and other organic compounds.
  • virginia beach — a town in SE Virginia.
  • visible speech — the representation in graphic or pictorial form of characteristics of speech, as by means of sound spectrograms.
  • vitreous humor — the transparent gelatinous substance filling the eyeball behind the crystalline lens.
  • volksdeutscher — a member of the German people, especially one of a community having its home outside of Germany, usually in central or eastern Europe.
  • vote of thanks — A vote of thanks is an official speech in which the speaker formally thanks a person for doing something.
  • voting machine — a mechanical apparatus used in a polling place to register and count the votes.
  • voucher system — Accounting. a procedure for controlling disbursements by means of vouchers.
  • voyage charter — the hire of a ship or aircraft for a specified number of voyages
  • wave mechanics — a form of quantum mechanics formulated in terms of a wave equation, as the Schrödinger equation.
  • weaver's hitch — sheet bend.
  • whiplash-curve — the lash of a whip.
  • with a view to — an instance of seeing or beholding; visual inspection.
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