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15-letter words containing v, h, e

  • five-star hotel — a top-quality hotel offering exceptional luxury
  • flavor enhancer — a substance added to food in order to enhance or intensify its flavor: Salt is a common flavor enhancer.
  • for the love of — a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
  • forehand volley — a type of forehand shot played in tennis
  • french overture — a short piece in three movements common in the 17th and 18th centuries
  • french vermouth — a dry aromatic white wine
  • give it a whirl — If you decide to give an activity a whirl, you do it even though it is something that you have never tried before.
  • give it the gun — to cause something to start or gain speed
  • give sth a miss — If you give something a miss, you decide not to do it or not to go to it.
  • give sth a rest — If someone tells you to give something a rest, they want you to stop doing it because it annoys them or because they think it is harming you.
  • give the finger — any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
  • give the lie to — a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification. Antonyms: truth.
  • give them heaps — to contend strenuously with an opposing sporting team
  • glanville-hicksPeggy, 1912–1990, U.S. composer and music critic, born in Australia.
  • go to the devil — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
  • graveyard shift — a work shift usually beginning at about midnight and continuing for about eight hours through the early morning hours.
  • graveyard watch — graveyard shift.
  • green with envy — If you say that someone is green with envy, you mean that they are very envious indeed.
  • half-wave plate — a crystal thin enough to cause a phase difference of 180° between the ordinary and extraordinary rays of polarized light, thereby changing the direction of the plane of polarization.
  • hamiltonstovare — a large strong short-haired breed of hound with a black, brown, and white coat
  • hard disk drive — (storage)   (HDD) A disk drive used to read and write hard disks.
  • have (down) pat — to know or have memorized thoroughly
  • have a crush on — be attracted to: sb
  • have a derry on — to have a prejudice or grudge against
  • have a go at sb — If someone has a go at you, they criticize you, often in a way that you feel is unfair.
  • have a good day — pleasantry
  • have a nice day — pleasantry
  • have a right to — be entitled to
  • have a smack at — to attempt
  • have a way with — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • have a whack at — to aim a blow at
  • have an edge on — a line or border at which a surface terminates: Grass grew along the edges of the road. The paper had deckle edges.
  • have an eye for — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • have got it bad — to be infatuated
  • have had enough — be weary, exasperated
  • have it so good — to have so many benefits, esp material benefits
  • have itchy feet — to be restless; have a desire to travel
  • have no use for — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
  • have nothing on — be naked
  • have one's pick — If you have your pick of a group of things, you are able to choose any of them that you want.
  • have the ear of — to be in a position to influence
  • have to do with — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
  • have to lump it — If you say that someone will have to lump it, you mean that they must accept a situation or decision whether they like it or not.
  • have words with — to argue angrily with
  • haversian canal — a microscopic channel in bone, through which a blood vessel runs.
  • head over heels — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • heave-off hinge — loose-joint hinge.
  • heavenly father — a term used to address or refer to God
  • heaviside layer — E layer.
  • heavy artillery — guns and howitzers of large caliber.
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