10-letter words containing a, v, i
- german ivy — a twining composite plant, Senecio mikanioides, native to southern Africa, having ivy-shaped leaves and clusters of yellow flowers.
- gilravager — someone who makes merry, esp to excess
- give chase — to pursue in order to seize, overtake, etc.: The police officer chased the thief.
- give guard — (of an umpire) to indicate such a position to a batsman
- give pause — a temporary stop or rest, especially in speech or action: a short pause after each stroke of the oar.
- give place — to make room
- given name — the name given to one, as distinguished from an inherited family name; first name; Christian name: His given name is John.
- go private — to restore private ownership of a corporation by buying back publicly held stock
- grandville — a town in SW Michigan.
- grapevines — Plural form of grapevine.
- gravel pit — an open cast working for the extraction of gravel
- gravelling — Present participle of gravel.
- gravesides — Plural form of graveside.
- gravesites — Plural form of gravesite.
- gravettian — of, relating to, or characteristic of an advanced Upper Paleolithic industry of Europe dating to c25,000 b.c. and characterized by straight, blunt-backed blades.
- gravimeter — an instrument for measuring the specific gravity of a solid or liquid.
- gravimetry — the measurement of weight or density.
- gravitated — Simple past tense and past participle of gravitate.
- gravitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gravitate.
- gravitonic — Relating to gravitons.
- grievances — Plural form of grievance.
- gustavus i — (Gustavus Vasa) 1496–1560, king of Sweden 1523–60.
- haakon vii — (Prince Carl of Denmark) 1872–1957, king of Norway 1905–57: in exile 1940–45.
- hacktivism — the practice of gaining unauthorized access to a computer system and carrying out various disruptive actions as a means of achieving political or social goals: In this form of hacktivism, the hacker tries to alter or deface a government website.
- hacktivist — the practice of gaining unauthorized access to a computer system and carrying out various disruptive actions as a means of achieving political or social goals: In this form of hacktivism, the hacker tries to alter or deface a government website.
- hadrian iv — (Nicholas Breakspear) c1100–59, only Englishman to become pope, 1154–59.
- hadrian vi — 1459–1523, Dutch ecclesiastic: pope 1522–23.
- hair weave — the process of hairweaving.
- half-alive — having life; living; existing; not dead or lifeless.
- hanoverian — of or relating to the former ruling house of Hanover.
- hantavirus — any of several viruses of the family Bunyaviridae, spread chiefly by wild rodents, that cause acute respiratory illness, kidney failure, and other syndromes.
- hard drive — hard disk drive
- harvesting — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- have a fit — become angry, upset
- head voice — the high register of the human voice, in which the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head
- heat devil — a wavering, shimmering disturbance of air above or around a hot surface.
- heavy rain — torrential rainfall
- hesitative — characterized by hesitation; hesitating.
- hovertrain — an experimental high-speed train that rides on a cushion of air over a concrete guide track in the shape of an inverted T and is propelled by one or more propellers or jet engines.
- hrotsvitha — c935–c1000, German nun, poet, and dramatist.
- hypoactive — Less than normally active.
- id nouveau — A dataflow language by Arvind <[email protected]> and R.S. Nikhil <[email protected]>, MIT LCS, ca. 1986. Id Nouveau began as a functional language, added streams, resource managers and I-structures (mutable arrays). Loops are syntactic sugar for tail recursion. See also Id.
- illatively — By means of illation.
- immovables — Plural form of immovable.
- immoveable — Alternative spelling of immovable.
- imperative — imperative language
- improvable — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
- imputative — to attribute or ascribe: The children imputed magical powers to the old woman.
- in advance — to move or bring forward: The general advanced his troops to the new position.
- in private — belonging to some particular person: private property.