13-letter words containing v, i, n, h
- nonexhaustive — exhausting a subject, topic, etc.; comprehensive; thorough: He published an exhaustive study of Greek vases.
- north vietnam — that part of Vietnam N of about 17° N; formerly a part of French Indochina; separate republic 1954–75.
- nouveau riche — a person who is newly rich: the ostentation of the nouveaux riches of the 1920s.
- nowheresville — a remote or isolated town or village.
- over-shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- overachieving — Present participle of overachieve.
- overbreathing — hyperventilation
- overhastiness — the condition of being overhasty
- overnight bag — a travel bag large enough to hold personal articles and clothing for an overnight trip.
- overnourished — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- photonegative — pertaining to a substance, as selenium, having a conductivity that decreases upon absorption of electromagnetic radiation.
- 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.
- 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
- scrivenership — the position of being a scrivener or scribe; scribing
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- 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.
- 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.
- shivering owl — screech owl.
- sixty-seventh — next after the sixty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 67.
- south vietnam — a former country in SE Asia that comprised Vietnam S of about 17° N latitude; a separate state 1954–75; now part of reunified Vietnam. Capital: Saigon.
- souvenir shop — a shop that sells trivial gift items, such as T-shirts, coffee mugs, keyrings etc, esp aimed at tourists
- spanish river — a river in S Ontario, Canada, flowing S into the North Channel of Lake Huron. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- the invisible — God
- the narrative — the part of a literary work that relates events
- the offensive — an attitude or position of aggression
- the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
- the seventies — the years numbered 70–79 in a particular century, esp the 20th century
- thieves' cant — slang used by thieves
- underachiever — a student who performs less well in school than would be expected on the basis of abilities indicated by intelligence and aptitude tests, etc.
- vanishing act — a vanishing act is when someone is impossible to contact, or disappears from public view
- vapourishness — the quality or state of being vapourish
- vasa murrhina — an American art glass, consisting of colored glass dusted with flakes or grains of metal and flashed with clear glass.
- vashon island — an island in Puget Sound, W central Washington, between Seattle and Tacoma. 37 sq. mi. (96 sq. km).
- vasoinhibitor — an agent, as a drug, that inhibits the action of the vasomotor nerves.
- verkhneudinsk — former name of Ulan Ude.
- vice-chairman — a member of a committee, board, group, etc., designated as immediately subordinate to a chairman and serving as such in the latter's absence; a person who acts for and assists a chairman.
- vindhya range — a mountain range in central India: separates the Ganges basin from the Deccan, marking the limits of northern and peninsular India. Greatest height: 1113 m (3651 ft)
- vinyl alcohol — an unstable liquid compound, C 2 H 4 O, found only in the form of its esters or as the polymer polyvinyl alcohol.
- vinylethylene — butadiene.
- virtual human — a computer-generated moving image of a human being, used esp in films as an extra in large crowd scenes