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16-letter words containing v, i, h

  • medieval history — the branch of history dealing with the Middle Ages
  • merchant service — A merchant service is a provider of credit card processing services.
  • nguyen van thieu — Nguyen Van [ngoo-yen vahn,, noo-] /ˈŋuˈyɛn vɑn,, ˈnu-/ (Show IPA), 1923–2001, South Vietnamese political leader: president 1967–75.
  • north providence — a town in NE Rhode Island.
  • north ridgeville — a town in N Ohio.
  • north vietnamese — relating to North Vietnam or its people
  • nusslein-volhard — Christiane [kris-tee-ah-nuh,, kris-tyah-] /ˌkrɪs tiˈɑ nə,, krɪsˈtyɑ-/ (Show IPA), born 1942, German biologist: Nobel prize 1995.
  • off-road vehicle — An off-road vehicle is a vehicle that is designed to travel over rough ground.
  • on the defensive — If someone is on the defensive, they are trying to protect themselves or their interests because they feel unsure or threatened.
  • over-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
  • overenthusiastic — full of or characterized by enthusiasm; ardent: He seems very enthusiastic about his role in the play.
  • overhead railway — elevated railroad.
  • overwhelmingness — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
  • ovshinsky effect — an effect that turns special types of glassy, thin films into semiconductors upon application of low voltage.
  • pavillon chinois — crescent (def 6).
  • peruvian rhatany — See under rhatany (def 1).
  • philoprogenitive — producing offspring, especially abundantly; prolific.
  • photosensitivity — the quality of being photosensitive.
  • phytosuccivorous — feeding on sap, as certain sucking insects.
  • plutarch's lives — (Parallel Lives) a collection (a.d. 105–15) by Plutarch of short biographies of the leading political figures of ancient Greece and Rome.
  • preemptive right — a privilege given to an existing shareholder to buy a portion of a new stock issue at the offering price on a pro-rata per-share basis.
  • presumptive heir — heir presumptive.
  • primitive church — the early Christian church, especially in reference to its earliest form and organization.
  • pyruvic aldehyde — a yellow, liquid compound, C 3 H 4 O 2 , containing both an aldehyde and a ketone group, usually obtained in a polymeric form: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • re-entry vehicle — the section of a spacecraft or ballistic missile designed to return to earth.
  • rear-wheel drive — a layout in motor vehicles which places the engine at the front and the driven wheels at the rear
  • recovery vehicle — a truck used to transport motor vehicles which have broken down to another location (generally a repair garage), or to recover vehicles which are no longer on a drivable surface
  • right-hand drive — A right-hand drive vehicle has its steering wheel on the right side. It is designed to be driven in countries such as Britain, Japan, and Australia where people drive on the left side of the road.
  • savonarola chair — a chair of the Renaissance having a number of transverse pairs of curved legs, crossing beneath the seat and rising to support the arms and back.
  • scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
  • shopping village — a shopping centre that designed to look like a village
  • shortfin corvina — See under corvina.
  • shrinking violet — a shy, modest, or self-effacing person.
  • south vietnamese — of or relating to the former South Vietnam (now part of Vietnam) or its inhabitants
  • splanchnic nerve — Anatomy. any of several nerves to the viscera and blood vessels of the chest and pelvic areas.
  • superheavyweight — an amateur boxer weighing more than 91 kg
  • surveyor's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • swedish vallhund — a small sturdy dog of a Swedish breed with a long body and pricked pointed ears
  • thanksgiving day — a national holiday celebrated as a day of feasting and giving thanks for divine favors or goodness, observed on the fourth Thursday of November in the U.S. and in Canada on the second Monday of October.
  • the devil to pay — 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.
  • the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
  • the noes have it — there is a majority of votes in the negative
  • the silver ferns — the women's international netball team of New Zealand
  • the silver state — the nickname of the US state of Nevada, which comes from the large amount of silver discovered and mined there
  • the vienna union — an international conference of socialists who came together in Vienna in 1921 in an attempt to reconstruct a united International by offering an alternative to the right-wing remnant of the Second International and to the Comintern: merged into the Labour and Socialist International in 1923
  • the virgin queen — another name for Queen Elizabeth I of England
  • thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
  • thick as thieves — very close friends
  • thieves' kitchen — a thieves' hideout
  • underpitch vault — a construction having a central vault intersected by vaults of lower pitch.
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