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12-letter words containing ve

  • gold reserve — the stock of gold held by a government or central bank to back its promissory notes or currency or to settle its international debts.
  • good evening — greeting
  • good heavens — You say 'Good heavens!' or 'Heavens!' to express surprise or to emphasize that you agree or disagree with someone.
  • governmental — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • governorates — Plural form of governorate.
  • governorship — the duties, term in office, etc., of a governor.
  • grave accent — a mark ( ˋ ) used to indicate:
  • gravediggers — Plural form of gravedigger.
  • gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
  • graven image — an idol.
  • gravenhages' — a Dutch name of The Hague.
  • gravity wave — Astronomy, Physics. gravitational wave.
  • green plover — lapwing.
  • ground cover — the herbaceous plants and low shrubs in a forest, considered as a whole.
  • ground level — ground state.
  • grovellingly — With grovelling or self-abasement; obsequiously.
  • growth curve — a curve on a graph in which a variable is plotted against time to illustrate the growth of the variable
  • gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
  • gypsy driver — the driver of a gypsy cab
  • habilitative — to clothe or dress.
  • hair remover — depilatory cream
  • half-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
  • half-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
  • hand-deliver — to deliver in person or by messenger.
  • hanover park — a city in NE Illinois.
  • haricot vert — green bean.
  • harlem river — tidal river separating Manhattan Island from the Bronx &, with Spuyten Duyvil Creek, connecting the East River with the Hudson: c. 8 mi (12.9 km)
  • harvest home — the bringing home of the harvest.
  • harvest mite — chigger (def 1).
  • harvest moon — the moon at and about the period of fullness that is nearest to the autumnal equinox.
  • harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
  • harvest time — season when crops are gathered
  • have a (good — to feel (strongly) inclined to
  • have a go at — attack verbally
  • have a heart — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
  • have a nerve — If you say that someone has a nerve or has the nerve to do something, you are criticizing them for doing something which you feel they had no right to do.
  • have company — If you have company, you have a visitor or friend with you.
  • have got sth — You use have got to say that someone has a particular thing, or to mention a quality or characteristic that someone or something has. In informal American English, people sometimes just use 'got'.
  • have in mind — to remember
  • have it away — to have sexual intercourse
  • have it good — to be in comfortable circumstances
  • have it made — simple past tense and past participle of make1 .
  • have kittens — to react with disapproval, anxiety, etc
  • have need to — to be compelled or required to; must
  • have none of — If you say that someone will have none of something, or is having none of something, you mean that they refuse to accept it.
  • have pity on — to have sympathy or show mercy for
  • heaven knows — You can say 'Heaven knows' to emphasize that you do not know something, or that you find something very surprising.
  • heavenliness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being heavenly.
  • hectic fever — a fever associated with tuberculosis
  • helping verb — auxiliary verb.
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