18-letter words containing v, i, n, h
- nervous exhaustion — extreme mental and physical fatigue caused by excessive emotional stress; neurasthenia.
- one's native heath — the place of one's birth or childhood
- over and done with — If you say that something is over and done with, you mean that it is completely finished and you do not have to think about it any more.
- overnight telegram — a type of domestic telegram sent at a reduced rate with a minimum charge for 10 words or less and accepted until midnight for delivery the following day.
- passive euthanasia — a form of euthanasia in which medical treatment that will keep a dying patient alive for a time is withdrawn
- pennsylvania dutch — the descendants of 17th- and 18th-century settlers in Pennsylvania from southwest Germany and Switzerland.
- physical inventory — To carry out a physical inventory is to count all the stock on hand.
- polyvinyl chloride — a white, water-insoluble, thermoplastic resin, derived by the polymerization of vinyl chloride: used chiefly for thin coatings, insulation, and pipings.
- provision merchant — a person or company in the business of retailing food and other provisions
- puvis de chavannes — Puvis de [py-vee duh] /püˈvi də/ (Show IPA), Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre.
- reinvent the wheel — (jargon) To design or implement a tool equivalent to an existing one or part of one, with the implication that doing so is silly or a waste of time. This is often a valid criticism. On the other hand, automobiles don't use wooden rollers, and some kinds of wheel have to be reinvented many times before you get them right. On the third hand, people reinventing the wheel do tend to come up with the moral equivalent of a trapezoid with an offset axle.
- research-intensive — focusing financial and other resources on research and development as opposed to capital and labor; noting or pertaining to a high ratio of expenditure on research in relation to the value of net output.
- school-leaving age — the minimum age that children are legally allowed to leave school - in Britain and the United States, this is 16
- survival mechanism — something you or your body does automatically, in order to survive in a dangerous or unpleasant situation
- synthetic division — a simplified procedure for dividing a polynomial by a linear polynomial.
- teacher evaluation — the process of vetting teachers to maintain teaching standards
- technical reserves — Technical reserves are amounts of money set aside to pay for underwriting liabilities.
- telephone receiver — a device, as in a telephone, that converts changes in an electric current into sound.
- the french riviera — the Mediterranean coastal region of France from Cannes eastward to Italy
- the movie industry — the industry that makes entertainment films or movies
- thiruvananthapuram — a state in SW India: formerly the regions of Travancore and Cochin. 15,005 sq. mi. (38,836 sq. km). Capital: Thiruvananthapuram.
- thomas alva edison — Thomas Alva [al-vuh] /ˈæl və/ (Show IPA), 1847–1931, U.S. inventor, especially of electrical devices.
- three-day eventing — participation in a three day equestrian competition consisting of dressage, cross-country jumping, and stadium jumping
- university heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- vermilion rockfish — a scarlet-red rockfish, Sebastes miniatus, inhabiting waters along the Pacific coast of North America, important as a food fish.
- vitamin a aldehyde — retinal2 .
- vulcan nerve pinch — (jargon) (Or "three-finger salute", Vulcan death grip; from the old "Star Trek" TV series via Commodore Amiga hackers) The keyboard combination that forces a soft boot or jump to ROM monitor (on machines that support such a feature). On an Amiga this is done with Ctrl/Right Amiga/Left Amiga; on IBM PCs and many microcomputers it is Ctrl/Alt/Del; on Suns, L1-A; on some Macintoshes, it is
- ! Silicon Graphics users are obviously the most dextrous however, as these machines use the five-finger combination: Left Shift/Left Ctrl/Left Alt/Keypad Divide/F12. Compare quadruple bucky.