9-letter words containing h, a, v, e
- haverford — a township in SE Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.
- haverhill — a city in NE Massachusetts, on the Merrimack River.
- haversack — a single-strapped bag worn over one shoulder and used for carrying supplies.
- haversian — designating or of the canals through which blood vessels and connective tissue pass in bone
- haversine — one half the versed sine of a given angle or arc.
- hay fever — a type of allergic rhinitis affecting the mucous membranes of the eyes and respiratory tract, affecting susceptible persons usually during the summer, caused by pollen of ragweed and certain other plants.
- heat wave — an air mass of high temperature covering an extended area and moving relatively slowly.
- heatwaves — Plural form of heatwave.
- heaviness — of great weight; hard to lift or carry: a heavy load.
- heaviside — Oliver, 1850–1925, English physicist.
- heavy ion — the nucleus of a heavy element.
- heavy mud — a dense substance made of a mixture of the mineral barite and water that is thickened with polymers
- heavy oil — a hydrocarbon mixture, heavier than water, distilled from coal tar
- heavy-set — Someone who is heavy-set has a large solid body.
- helvetian — of or relating to Helvetia or the Helvetii.
- helvetica — (text) One of the most widely used sans-serif typefaces, developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann. Originally called Neue Haas Grotesk, it was renamed Helvetica for the international market. Helvetica is very similar to the common Arial typeface. The name is Latin for Swiss.
- herbivora — grass-eating animals collectively
- hortative — hortatory.
- hovhaness — Alan, 1911–2000, U.S. composer.
- hydrovane — a vane on a seaplane conferring stability on water (a sponson) or facilitating take off (a hydrofoil)
- hypernova — (astronomy) The gravitational collapse of a massive star to form a black hole.
- i have it — I know the answer
- knaveship — a small proportion of milled grain that was due to the person who did the milling
- kobenhavn — Danish name of Copenhagen.
- københavn — a seaport in and the capital of Denmark, on the E coast of Zealand.
- leviathan — (often initial capital letter) Bible. a sea monster.
- lightwave — A wave of light.
- love-hate — characterized simultaneously by feelings of love and hate
- markevich — Igor [ee-guh r] /ˈi gər/ (Show IPA), 1912–83, Russian conductor and composer.
- midheaven — the point of a horoscope corresponding to the zenith: the cusp of the tenth house.
- misbehave — to behave badly or improperly: The children misbehaved during our visit.
- must-have — A must-have is something modern that many people want to have.
- nashville — a state in the SE United States. 42,246 sq. mi. (109,415 sq. km). Capital: Nashville. Abbreviation: TN (for use with zip code), Tenn.
- new haven — a seaport in S Connecticut, on Long Island Sound.
- niah cave — a limestone cave in Sarawak, Borneo, the site of the discovery of one of the earliest anatomically modern Homo sapiens skulls, dated c38,000 b.c.
- overcatch — to overtake
- overcheap — too cheap
- overcoach — to coach too much
- overhaile — to draw (a covering) over
- overhappy — too happy
- overhaste — excessive haste
- overhasty — excessively hasty; rash: overhasty judgment.
- overheads — over one's head; aloft; up in the air or sky, especially near the zenith: There was a cloud overhead.
- overheard — to hear (speech or a speaker) without the speaker's intention or knowledge: I accidentally overheard what they were saying.
- overhuman — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- overmatch — to be more than a match for; surpass; defeat: an assignment that clearly overmatched his abilities; an able task force that overmatched the enemy fleet.
- overreach — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
- overshade — to cast shade over.
- overshare — an instance of this: Get ready for an overshare about his health problems.
- oversharp — too sharp