10-letter words containing h, a, v, e
- overheated — Someone who is overheated is very angry about something.
- overlaunch — (in shipbuilding) to overlap planks
- overlavish — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- overrashly — in an overrash manner
- overshadow — to be more important or significant by comparison: For years he overshadowed his brother.
- overslaugh — to pass over or disregard (a person) by giving a promotion, position, etc., to another instead.
- overtaught — taught to excess
- overthwart — to lie across
- phomvihane — Kaysone (ˈkaɪsɒn). 1920–92, Laotian Communist statesman; prime minister of Laos (1975–91); president (1991–92)
- preharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- ravishment — rapture or ecstasy.
- revanchism — an advocate or supporter of a political policy of revanche, especially in order to seek vengeance for a previous military defeat.
- revanchist — an advocate or supporter of a political policy of revanche, especially in order to seek vengeance for a previous military defeat.
- river head — the source of a river
- safe haven — an area near a combat zone that is maintained as being free from military attack.
- shock wave — a region of abrupt change of pressure and density moving as a wave front at or above the velocity of sound, caused by an intense explosion or supersonic flow over a body.
- short wave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
- short-wave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
- shovel hat — a hat with a broad brim turned up at the sides and projecting with a shovellike curve in front and behind; worn by some ecclesiastics, chiefly in England.
- shovelhead — bonnethead.
- shrievalty — the office, term, or jurisdiction of a sheriff.
- sivash sea — a salt lagoon in S Ukraine, on the N of the Crimea peninsula. About 990 sq. mi. (2560 sq. km).
- slave ship — a ship for transporting slaves from their native homes to places of bondage.
- slavophile — a person who greatly admires the Slavs and Slavic ways.
- slavophobe — a person who fears or hates the Slavs, their influence, or things Slavic.
- sleevehand — a sleeve's cuff or wristband
- spokeshave — a cutting tool having a blade set between two handles, originally for shaping spokes, but now in general use for dressing curved edges of wood and forming round bars and shapes.
- superheavy — Chemistry, Physics. pertaining to any of a series of elements having an atomic number greater than 103.
- tail-heavy — noting or pertaining to a craft or vehicle that is too heavy in the rear, from overloading or poor design.
- tereshkova — Valentina Vladimirovna [vuh-lyin-tyee-nuh vluh-dyi-myee-ruh v-nuh] /və lyɪnˈtyi nə vlə dyɪˈmyi rəv nə/ (Show IPA), born 1937, Soviet cosmonaut: first woman in space 1963.
- the canvas — the floor of a boxing or wrestling ring
- the heaves — an attack of vomiting or retching
- the levant — a former name for the area of the E Mediterranean now occupied by Lebanon, Syria, and Israel
- the-rivals — a comedy of manners (1775) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- theravadin — Hinayanist.
- theta wave — any of the brain waves constituting theta rhythm.
- tsarevitch — the son of a czar.
- tzarevitch — czarevitch
- ultraheavy — extremely heavy
- unachieved — to bring to a successful end; carry through; accomplish: The police crackdown on speeders achieved its purpose.
- unbehaving — to act in a particular way; conduct or comport oneself or itself: The ship behaves well.
- unravished — to rape (a woman).
- vanishment — to disappear from sight, especially quickly; become invisible: The frost vanished when the sun came out.
- vanquished — to conquer or subdue by superior force, as in battle.
- vanquisher — to conquer or subdue by superior force, as in battle.
- vectograph — a technology that uses special glasses to see a photographic image between two plastic sheets as three dimensional
- veltheimia — any of several bulbous plants of the genus Veltheimia, especially V. viridifolia, native to southern Africa, having glossy, strap-shaped leaves and a long cluster of tubular pinkish flowers.
- venography — x-ray examination of a vein or veins following injection of a radiopaque substance.
- vero beach — a town in central Florida.
- vibraphone — vibraharp.