10-letter words containing h, a, v
- shovelhead — bonnethead.
- shrievalty — the office, term, or jurisdiction of a sheriff.
- sit shivah — to mourn
- 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.
- tovarishch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- tsarevitch — the son of a czar.
- tskhinvali — an autonomous region of the Georgian Republic, in the N part. 1428 sq. mi. (3900 sq. km). Capital: Tskhinvali.
- 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).
- van't hoff — Jacobus Hendricus [yah-koh-bœs hen-dree-kœs] /yɑˈkoʊ bœs hɛnˈdri kœs/ (Show IPA), 1852–1911, Dutch chemist: Nobel prize 1901.
- 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.
- vardhamana — a semilegendary teacher, believed to have died c480 b.c., who reformed older doctrines to establish Jainism in its present form: regarded as the twenty-fourth and latest Tirthankara.
- varnishing — the skill or technique of varnishing something
- 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.
- vibrograph — a device for recording mechanical vibrations.
- villa home — one of a set of suburban bungalows built compactly on the one allotment, esp on the former site of a single bungalow
- vinegarish — resembling vinegar, as in sourness or acidity: a vinegarish odor; a vinegarish disposition.
- vir chakra — an award made to distinguished soldiers by the Government of India
- viscachera — the burrow system of viscachas, which can extend up to 600 square metres, and has 4 to 30 entrances, some of which are big enough for a person to stand waist-deep
- vox humana — a pipe-organ stop designed to produce tones resembling those of the human voice.
- wanthriven — poorly developed or undersized
- watch over — to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens: to watch while an experiment is performed.
- wavelength — Physics. the distance, measured in the direction of propagation of a wave, between two successive points in the wave that are characterized by the same phase of oscillation.
- west haven — a town in S Connecticut, near New Haven.
- whatsoever — At all (used for emphasis).
- yad vashem — the official authority in Israel for the commemoration of the Holocaust and its victims.