10-letter words containing h, a, v
- earthmover — a vehicle, as a bulldozer, for pushing or carrying excavated earth from place to place.
- east haven — a town in S Connecticut, near New Haven.
- echeverria — Esteban [es-te-vahn] /ɛsˈtɛ vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1805–51, Argentine poet.
- evenhanded — Fair and having no partiality.
- exhaustive — Examining, including, or considering all elements or aspects; fully comprehensive.
- fever heat — the heat of fever; body heat exceeding 98.6°F (37°C).
- flashovers — Plural form of flashover.
- give chase — to pursue in order to seize, overtake, etc.: The police officer chased the thief.
- gravenhage — a Dutch name of The Hague.
- haakon vii — (Prince Carl of Denmark) 1872–1957, king of Norway 1905–57: in exile 1940–45.
- hack value — Often adduced as the reason or motivation for expending effort toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being that the accomplished goal is a hack. For example, MacLISP had features for reading and printing Roman numerals, which were installed purely for hack value. See display hack for one method of computing hack value, but this cannot really be explained, only experienced. As Louis Armstrong once said when asked to explain jazz: "Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know." (Feminists please note Fats Waller's explanation of rhythm: "Lady, if you got to ask you ain't got it.")
- hacktivism — the practice of gaining unauthorized access to a computer system and carrying out various disruptive actions as a means of achieving political or social goals: In this form of hacktivism, the hacker tries to alter or deface a government website.
- hacktivist — the practice of gaining unauthorized access to a computer system and carrying out various disruptive actions as a means of achieving political or social goals: In this form of hacktivism, the hacker tries to alter or deface a government website.
- hadrian iv — (Nicholas Breakspear) c1100–59, only Englishman to become pope, 1154–59.
- hadrian vi — 1459–1523, Dutch ecclesiastic: pope 1522–23.
- hair weave — the process of hairweaving.
- half-alive — having life; living; existing; not dead or lifeless.
- 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.
- 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.