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14-letter words containing v, h

  • servomechanism — an electronic control system in which a hydraulic, pneumatic, or other type of controlling mechanism is actuated and controlled by a low-energy signal.
  • seventh avenue — an avenue in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City.
  • seventh heaven — (especially in Islam and the cabala) the highest heaven, where God and the most exalted angels dwell.
  • seventh-grader — a student in the seventh year of school, usually 11 to 13 years old
  • seventy-eighth — next after the seventy-seventh; being the ordinal number for 78.
  • seventy-fourth — next after the seventy-third; being the ordinal number for 74.
  • share of voice — the proportion of the total audience or readership commanded by a media group across its full range of publishing and broadcasting activities
  • shaving mirror — small adjustable mirror
  • sherry vinegar — a gourmet wine vinegar produced in the Jerez region of S Spain
  • sheva brachoth — the seven blessings said during the marriage service and repeated at the celebration thereafter
  • shield volcano — a broad volcano built up from the repeated nonexplosive eruption of basalt to form a low dome or shield, usually having a large caldera at the summit
  • shipping fever — a respiratory disease of cattle, caused by Pasteurella haemolytica, often spread during the shipment of livestock.
  • short covering — purchases that close out short sales on stocks or commodities.
  • short division — division, especially by a one-digit divisor, in which the steps of the process are performed mentally and are not written down.
  • shove-ha'penny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
  • shrove tuesday — the last day of Shrovetide, long observed as a season of merrymaking before Lent.
  • sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
  • southern slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
  • souvenir sheet — a single stamp or a pair, block, or set of stamps having the same or different designs commemorating a stamp exhibition or other event and having inscriptions in one or all four margins.
  • spirit varnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
  • 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
  • unchauvinistic — not chauvinistic
  • unchivalrously — in an unchivalrous manner
  • 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
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