13-letter words containing v, h
- pham van dong — 1906–2000, Vietnamese political leader: prime minister of North Vietnam 1955–76 and of unified Vietnam 1976–86.
- 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.
- photovoltaics — (used with a singular verb) a field of semiconductor technology involving the direct conversion of electromagnetic radiation as sunlight, into electricity.
- point shaving — (especially in basketball) the illegal practice, by one or more bribed players, of deliberately limiting the number of points scored to conform to the desires of corrupt gamblers.
- point-shaving — (especially in basketball) the illegal practice, by one or more bribed players, of deliberately limiting the number of points scored to conform to the desires of corrupt gamblers.
- 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.
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- seventeenthly — in the seventeenth place
- seventh chord — a chord formed by the superposition of three thirds.
- seventh grade — school year: age 12-13
- seventy-eight — a cardinal number, 70 plus 8.
- seventy-fifth — next after the seventy-fourth; being the ordinal number for 75.
- seventy-ninth — next after the seventy-eighth; being the ordinal number for 79.
- seventy-sixth — next after the seventy-fifth; being the ordinal number for 76.
- seventy-third — next after the seventy-second; being the ordinal number for 73.
- seventy-three — a cardinal number, 70 plus 3.
- shaver outlet — a point in a wall, esp in a bathroom, where you can connect an electric razor to the power supply
- shaving brush — a short, cylindrical brush with long, soft, bristles, used in lathering the face before shaving.
- shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
- shaving horse — a trestle for supporting and steadying a piece of work being shaved.
- shaving stick — a piece of shaving foam moulded into a slender shape and held in a slender container for ease of application to the face when removing hair with a razor
- shelving unit — A shelving unit is a flexible display system which can be moved and adjusted to accommodate different product dimensions.
- shirt-sleeves — not wearing a jacket; informally dressed: a shirt-sleeve mob.
- shivering owl — screech owl.
- short-sleeved — having short sleeves
- shrove monday — the Monday before Ash Wednesday.
- shrove sunday — the Sunday before Ash Wednesday; Quinquagesima.
- silver halide — a compound in which silver is combined with a halogen, as silver chloride, bromide, or iodide.
- silver polish — a type of polishing medium that is suitable for silver
- silver-haired — having silver coloured hair
- silver-y moth — a brownish noctuid moth, Plusia gamma, having a light Y-shaped marking on each forewing; it migrates in large flocks
- silvichemical — any of a number of chemicals derived from a tree.
- sixty-seventh — next after the sixty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 67.
- slasher movie — a film in which victims, often women, are slashed with knives, razors, etc