11-letter words containing v, s, h
- swivel head — A swivel head is a bearing between the traveling block and the kelly.
- tchaikovsky — Peter Ilyich [il-yich] /ˈɪl yɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), or Pëtr Ilich [Russian pyawtr ee-lyeech] /Russian ˈpyɔtr iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1840–93, Russian composer.
- thanksgiver — a person who gives thanks.
- the five ks — items traditionally worn or carried by Sikhs, each possessing a symbolic importance
- the heavens — the sky
- the heavies — a serious newspaper
- the shivers — an attack of shivering, esp through fear or illness
- the vapours — a depressed mental condition believed originally to be the result of vaporous exhalations from the stomach
- the wharves — the working area of a dock
- thomasville — a city in S Georgia.
- thorvaldsen — Albert Bertal [ahl-bert bar-tuh l] /ˈɑl bɛrt ˈbær təl/ (Show IPA), 1770–1844, Danish sculptor.
- thrash over — to go over (a problem, etc.) in great detail
- tishah b'av — a Jewish fast day observed on the ninth day of the month of Av in memory of the destruction in Jerusalem of the First and Second Temples.
- travel shot — a camera shot taken from a mobile platform, dolly, or the like, that keeps within range of a moving subject.
- tu bishevat — the 15th day of the month of Shevat, observed as a new year for trees by planting trees and by eating fruits.
- turishcheva — Ludmilla (lʊdˈmɪlə). born 1952, Soviet gymnast: world champion 1970, 1972 (at the Olympic Games), and 1974
- turkish van — a breed of cat with soft white semi-long hair and coloured markings on the head and tail
- unharvested — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- unvarnished — plain; clear; straightforward; without vagueness or subterfuge; frank: the unvarnished truth.
- vaisheshika — a school of thought asserting the existence of a universe formed by a god out of atoms of earth, air, fire, and water, as well as out of space, time, ether, mind, and soul, all conceived as substances coexisting eternally with the god.
- vaivodeship — the position or office of a vaivode
- vanishingly — to the point of being nearly invisible or nonexistent
- vapor phase — In its vapor phase a substance can be condensed to a liquid or to a solid by increasing its pressure without reducing the temperature.
- vellus hair — short fine unpigmented hair covering the human body
- venus shell — a marine bivalve mollusc of the family Veneridae, typified by the intertidal Venus gallina, with somewhat rounded ribbed valves
- venus'-hair — a maidenhair fern (Adiantum capillus-veneris) of tropical America and the S U.S.
- verb phrase — a group of words including a verb and its complements, objects, or other modifiers that functions syntactically as a verb. In English a verb phrase combines with a noun or noun phrase acting as subject to form a simple sentence.
- vichyssoise — a cream soup of potatoes and leeks, usually served chilled and often garnished with chopped chives.
- voguishness — the state or condition of being voguish
- voivodeship — the area which is governed by a voivode
- vowel shift — a systematic phonetic change in a language's vowels
- wavelengths — Plural form of wavelength.
- well-shaved — to remove a growth of beard with a razor.
- welsh vault — underpitch vault.
- whateverism — (politics) Adherence to the Two Whatevers:
- wheresoever — Wherever.
- whichsoever — Whichever.
- whist drive — a social gathering where whist is played; the winners of each hand move to different tables to play the losers of the previous hand
- white slave — a woman who is sold or forced into prostitution.
- whosesoever — Whoever’s.
- yevtushenko — Yevgeny Alexandrovich [yiv-gye-nyee uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /yɪvˈgyɛ nyi ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), born 1933, Russian poet.
- youskevitch — Igor [ee-gawr] /ˈi gɔr/ (Show IPA), 1912–94, U.S. ballet dancer, born in Russia.