10-letter words containing a, v, n
- governance — information technology governance
- governante — a housekeeper
- grandville — a town in SW Michigan.
- grapevines — Plural form of grapevine.
- gravelling — Present participle of gravel.
- gravenhage — a Dutch name of The Hague.
- graveolent — That has a rank smell.
- gravestone — a stone marking a grave, usually giving the name, date of death, etc., of the person buried there.
- 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.
- gravitonic — Relating to gravitons.
- grievances — Plural form of grievance.
- haakon vii — (Prince Carl of Denmark) 1872–1957, king of Norway 1905–57: in exile 1940–45.
- hadrian iv — (Nicholas Breakspear) c1100–59, only Englishman to become pope, 1154–59.
- hadrian vi — 1459–1523, Dutch ecclesiastic: pope 1522–23.
- hand level — a leveling instrument held in the hand and used for approximate work at short distances.
- hand-woven — woven by hand rather than by machine
- hang heavy — to pass tediously; drag
- 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.
- harvesting — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- harvestman — daddy-longlegs (def 1).
- harvestmen — Plural form of harvestman.
- heave down — to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist: to heave a heavy ax.
- heavenward — Also, heavenwards. toward heaven.
- heavy rain — torrential rainfall
- henry vane — Sir Henry (Sir Harry Vane) 1613–62, British statesman and author.
- hexavalent — having a valence of six.
- hog heaven — heaven (def 6).
- 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.
- hypernovae — Plural form of hypernova.
- 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.
- 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.
- inactivate — to make inactive: The bomb was inactivated.
- inactively — In an inactive manner.
- inactivity — not active: an inactive volcano.
- inadaptive — characterized by the failure to adapt
- inchoative — inceptive.
- incitative — an agent which incites or is capable of inciting or rousing; a stimulant
- incubative — Of or pertaining to incubation.
- incurvated — Simple past tense and past participle of incurvate.
- indagative — (obsolete) Searching; exploring; investigating.
- indicative — showing, signifying, or pointing out; expressive or suggestive (usually followed by of): behavior indicative of mental disorder.
- individual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
- indurative — the act of indurating.
- inevasible — Incapable of being evaded.
- inevitable — unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary: an inevitable conclusion.
- inevitably — unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary: an inevitable conclusion.
- initiative — an introductory act or step; leading action: to take the initiative in making friends.
- innervated — to communicate nervous energy to; stimulate through nerves.