11-letter words containing h, a, v, e
- hib vaccine — a vaccine against meningitis, pneumonia, and other illnesses caused by the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae type b: usually administered during infancy.
- hiv-related — related to the HIV virus
- hoverboards — Plural form of hoverboard.
- hovercrafts — (nonstandard) Plural form of hovercraft.
- humiliative — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- hyattsville — a city in central Maryland.
- hyperactive — unusually or abnormally active: a company's hyperactive growth; the child's hyperactive imagination.
- hyperovaria — precocious sexuality in girls due to abnormally heavy ovarian secretion.
- hypervalent — (chemistry) having a higher than normal valence.
- hypovolemia — A decreased volume of circulating blood in the body.
- ill-behaved — 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties. 2. Software that bypasses the defined operating system interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software. In the IBM PC/mess-dos world, there is a folk theorem (nearly true) to the effect that (owing to gross inadequacies and performance penalties in the OS interface) all interesting applications are ill-behaved. See also bare metal. Opposite: well-behaved, compare PC-ism.
- java trench — a trench in the Indian Ocean, S of Java: deepest known part of Indian Ocean. 25,344 feet (7725 meters) deep.
- jehovah god — (among the Jehovah's Witnesses) God.
- katharevusa — the puristic Modern Greek literary language (distinguished from Demotic).
- knavishness — The quality of being knavish.
- larch river — a river in N Quebec, Canada, flowing NE to the Caniapiscau River. 270 miles (434 km) long.
- leavenworth — a city in NE Kansas.
- levelheaded — having common sense and sound judgment; sensible.
- levorphanol — a potent synthetic narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 7 , as the tartrate, used in the treatment of moderate to severe pain.
- light valve — a light-transmitting device having transmissions that vary in accordance with an electric input, as voltage, current, or an electron beam, used chiefly for recording sound on motion-picture film.
- lobachevski — Nikoˈlai Iˈvanovich (nikɔˈlaɪ iˈvɑnɔvɪtʃ ) ; nēk^ōlīˈ ēväˈn^ōvich) 1793-1856; Russ. mathematician
- lobachevsky — Nikolai Ivanovich [nyi-kuh-lahy ee-vah-nuh-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ iˈvɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1856, Russian mathematician.
- lubavitcher — a member of a missionary Hasidic movement founded in the 1700s by Rabbi Shneour Zalman of Lyady.
- machiavelli — Niccolò di Bernardo [neek-kaw-law dee ber-nahr-daw] /ˌnik kɔˈlɔ di bɛrˈnɑr dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1469–1527, Italian statesman, political philosopher, and author.
- marcheshvan — Heshvan.
- misbehaving — to behave badly or improperly: The children misbehaved during our visit.
- misbehavior — improper, inappropriate, or bad behavior.
- nakhichevan — an autonomous republic, an exclave of Azerbaijan, bordering Armenia, Turkey, and Iran. 2124 sq. mi. (5500 sq. km). Capital: Nakhichevan.
- native bush — indigenous forest
- night raven — a bird that cries in the night.
- noah's dove — the constellation Columba.
- nonachiever — a student who fares poorly in the classroom or has failing grades.
- nonadhesive — coated with glue, paste, mastic, or other sticky substance: adhesive bandages.
- north haven — a town in S Connecticut.
- or whatever — You say or whatever to refer generally to something else of the same kind as the thing or things that you have just mentioned.
- over-handle — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
- over-sharer — an instance of this: Get ready for an overshare about his health problems.
- overachieve — to perform, especially academically, above the potential indicated by tests of one's mental ability or aptitude.
- overarching — forming an arch above: great trees with overarching branches.
- overcharged — Simple past tense and past participle of overcharge.
- overcharges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcharge.
- overdraught — (chiefly, British) An overdraft.
- overfraught — too fraught
- overhanging — extending or dangling
- overharvest — the harvesting of plants or animals in an unsustainable manner
- overhastily — in such a way as to be excessively hasty or done without enough consideration
- overheating — heating (something) excessively
- overleather — the upper part of a shoe
- overreacher — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
- overweather — to expose too long to harsh weather