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.