18-letter words containing a, v, e

give sb their head — If you give someone their head, you allow them to do what they want to do, without trying to advise or stop them.
give someone a row — to scold someone; tell someone off
give someone pause — to make someone hesitant or uncertain
give the game away — to reveal one's intentions or a secret
grand traverse bay — an inlet of Lake Michigan on the NW of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan.
gravitational lens — a heavy, dense body, as a galaxy, that lies along our line of sight to a more distant object, as a quasar, and whose gravitational field refracts the light of that object, splitting it into multiple images as seen from the earth.
gravitational wave — (in general relativity) a propagating wave of gravitational energy produced by accelerating masses, especially during catastrophic events, as the gravitational collapse of massive stars.
gravity escapement — an escapement, used especially in large outdoor clocks, in which the impulse is given to the pendulum by means of a weight falling through a certain distance.
gulf saint vincent — a shallow inlet of SE South Australia, to the east of the Yorke Peninsula: salt industry
gulliver's travels — a social and political satire (1726) by Jonathan Swift, narrating the voyages of Lemuel Gulliver to four imaginary regions: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the land of the Houyhnhnms.
haemorrhagic fever — any of a group of fevers, such as Ebola virus disease and yellow fever, characterized by internal bleeding or bleeding into the skin
half-open interval — a set of numbers between two given numbers but including only one endpoint.
have (got) it made — to be assured of success
have a hand in sth — If you have a hand in something such as an event or activity, you are involved in it.
have a screw loose — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
have a slate loose — to be eccentric or crazy
have a thing about — If you have a thing about someone or something, you have very strong feelings about them.
have by the throat — to have compete control over (a person or thing)
have eyes only for — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
have got to do sth — You use have got to when you are saying that something is necessary or must happen in the way stated. In informal American English, the 'have' is sometimes omitted.
have money to burn — to have more money than one needs, so that some can be spent foolishly
have no hesitation — If you say that you have no hesitation in doing something, you are emphasizing that you will do it immediately or willingly because you are certain that it is the right thing to do.
have on one's back — to be burdened with
have one's ears on — the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
have one's moments — If you say that someone or something has their moments, you are indicating that there are times when they are successful or interesting, but that this does not happen very often.
have the better of — of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
have two left feet — to be very clumsy
have what it takes — be able or qualified for sth
have words with sb — If one person has words with another, or if two or more people have words, they have a serious discussion or argument, especially because one has complained about the other's behaviour.
have/be to do with — If you say that one thing has something to do with or is something to do with another thing, you mean that the two things are connected or that the first thing is about the second thing.
heavy middleweight — a professional wrestler weighing 177–187 pounds (81–85 kg)
heimlich manoeuvre — a technique in first aid to dislodge a foreign body in a person's windpipe by applying sudden upward pressure on the upper abdomen
hemidemisemiquaver — a sixty-fourth note.
herring bone weave — a pattern consisting of adjoining vertical rows of slanting lines, any two contiguous lines forming either a V or an inverted V , used in masonry, textiles, embroidery, etc.
hit-and-run driver — sb: leaves accident scene
hold a reservation — If a hotel holds a reservation, it keeps a room for someone, and does not give it to someone else.
homelands movement — the programme to resettle native Australians on their tribal lands
i'll give you that — You say I'll give you that to indicate that you admit that someone has a particular characteristic or ability.
in inverted commas — If you say in inverted commas after a word or phrase, you are indicating that it is inaccurate or unacceptable in some way, or that you are quoting someone else.
in the affirmative — positively, by saying yes
inclusive language — language that avoids the use of certain expressions or words that might be considered to exclude particular groups of people, esp gender-specific words, such as "man", "mankind", and masculine pronouns, the use of which might be considered to exclude women
indecent behaviour — the offence of committing indecent acts
indentured servant — a person who came to America and was placed under contract to work for another over a period of time, usually seven years, especially during the 17th to 19th centuries. Generally, indentured servants included redemptioners, victims of religious or political persecution, persons kidnapped for the purpose, convicts, and paupers.
individual liberty — the liberty of an individual to exercise freely those rights generally accepted as being outside of governmental control.
inductive relation — A relation R between domains D and E is inductive if for all chains d1 .. dn in D and e1 .. en in E,
industrial vehicle — a vehicle designed for use in industry
inferior vena cava — See under vena cava.
invalidity benefit — (formerly, in the British National Insurance scheme) a weekly payment to a person who had been off work through illness for more than six months: replaced by incapacity benefit in 1995
inverse square law — one of several laws relating two quantities such that one quantity varies inversely as the square of the other, as the law that the illumination produced on a screen by a point source varies inversely as the square of the distance of the screen from the source.
investment account — a bank account in which money is saved long-term to accrue interest

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