10-letter words containing a, v
- 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.
- hard drive — hard disk drive
- hardcovers — Plural form of hardcover.
- hargreaves — James, died 1778, English inventor of spinning machinery.
- harvesters — Plural form of harvester.
- harvesting — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- harvestman — daddy-longlegs (def 1).
- harvestmen — Plural form of harvestman.
- have a cow — become angry or upset
- have a few — to consume several (or too many) alcoholic drinks
- have a fit — become angry, upset
- have to be — to be unquestionably or without doubt
- have to do — You use have to when you are saying that something is necessary or required, or must happen. If you do not have to do something, it is not necessary or required.
- haversacks — Plural form of haversack.
- 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.
- 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
- heavy spar — barite.
- heavy type — type that is thicker and blacker than normal type
- heavy-duty — providing an unusual amount of power, durability, etc.: heavy-duty machinery; heavy-duty shoes.
- henry vane — Sir Henry (Sir Harry Vane) 1613–62, British statesman and author.
- hesitative — characterized by hesitation; hesitating.
- hexavalent — having a valence of six.
- hog heaven — heaven (def 6).
- home leave — holiday time for a person who works abroad, during which they can go home
- hoover dam — official name of Boulder Dam.
- hoverboard — (science fiction) A levitating board that can be ridden in the manner of a surfboard or skateboard.
- hovercraft — ACV.
- 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.
- hypernovae — Plural form of hypernova.
- 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.
- 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.