11-letter words containing v, s, h
- overclothes — clothing worn outside other garments.
- overfishing — to fish (an area) excessively; to exhaust the supply of usable fish in (certain waters): Scientists are concerned that fishing boats may overfish our coastal waters.
- overharvest — the harvesting of plants or animals in an unsustainable manner
- overhastily — in such a way as to be excessively hasty or done without enough consideration
- overnourish — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- overstretch — to stretch excessively.
- peevishness — cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent: a peevish youngster.
- postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- provostship — the office of a provost
- ravishingly — extremely beautiful or attractive; enchanting; entrancing.
- rh positive — See under Rh factor.
- rh-positive — See under Rh factor.
- rhabdovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, including the rabies virus.
- rhea silvia — a vestal virgin who became the mother, by Mars, of Romulus and Remus.
- river horse — a hippopotamus.
- savannakhet — a city in S central Laos.
- servanthood — the condition of being a servant
- seven hills — a town in N Ohio.
- seventeenth — next after the sixteenth; being the ordinal number for 17.
- seventh-day — designating certain Christian denominations that make Saturday their chief day of rest and religious observance: Seventh-Day Adventists.
- shaft grave — a grave consisting of a deep, rectangular pit with vertical sides, roofed over with a stone slab.
- sharonville — a town in SW Ohio.
- sharpeville — a town in E South Africa: scene of riots in 1960 (when 69 demonstrators died), 1984, and 1985 (when 19 died)
- shaving gel — product that softens hair growth for shaving
- shcherbakov — a former name (1946–57) of Andropov.
- shelbyville — a city in central Indiana.
- shift lever — the lever mounted on the steering column or floor of a vehicle that enables the driver to shift gears.
- shirtsleeve — not wearing a jacket; informally dressed: a shirt-sleeve mob.
- shiveringly — in a shivering manner, usually from cold or fright
- shore leave — permission to spend time ashore, usually 48 hours or more, granted a member of a ship's company.
- short novel — a prose narrative midway between the novel and the short story in length and scope
- short-lived — living or lasting only a little while.
- shovel beak — a deformity of the beak in intensively reared chicks
- shovelboard — the game of shuffleboard.
- silver hake — a common hake, Merluccius bilinearis, occurring off the Atlantic coast of North America and popular as a food fish.
- silver thaw — glaze (def 17).
- silverchair — Australian rock group (formed 1994): comprising Daniel Johns (born 1979; vocals, guitar), Ben Gillies (born 1979, drums) and Chris Joannou (born 1979, bass guitar); their albums include Frogstomp (1995) and Young Modern (2007)
- silversmith — a person whose occupation is making and repairing articles of silver.
- slaveholder — an owner of slaves.
- slavishness — of or befitting a slave: slavish subjection.
- slough over — to gloss over; minimize
- smooth over — free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
- south devon — a breed of large red cattle originally from South Devon
- south river — a borough in central New Jersey.
- stephen vii — died a.d. 931, pope 928–931.
- stevengraph — a small picture woven in colored silk thread: introduced in 1879 and mass-produced on a Jacquard-type loom.
- survey ship — a vessel designed to carry out research and surveying
- svarabhakti — the process of inserting vowel sounds into a consonant cluster, as in a loanword to make it conform to the pattern of the speaker's language and, hence, more easily pronounceable, as in the Italian pronunciation [lahn-tsee-ke-nek-kaw] /ˌlɑn tsi kɛˈnɛk kɔ/ (Show IPA) for German Landsknecht [lahnts-knekht] /ˈlɑntsˌknɛxt/ (Show IPA).
- swedish ivy — any of various plants belonging to the genus Plectranthus, of the mint family, native to the Old World tropics, having rounded, scalloped or toothed leaves and widely cultivated as a houseplant.
- switch over — If you switch over when you are watching television, you change to another channel.