9-letter words containing h, i, v
- hauterive — a town in SE Quebec, in E Canada.
- havasupai — a member of a small tribe of nomadic North American Indians now living in Arizona.
- haverhill — a city in NE Massachusetts, on the Merrimack River.
- 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.
- havildars — Plural form of havildar.
- 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 oil — a hydrocarbon mixture, heavier than water, distilled from coal tar
- helldiver — a grebe, especially the pied-billed grebe.
- 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.
- helvetius — Claude Adrien [klawd ey-dree-uh n;; French klohd a-dree-ahn] /klɔd ˈeɪ dri ən;; French kloʊd a driˈɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1715–71, French philosopher.
- hemiliver — Lb anatomy Half of the liver.
- henry vii — ("Henry of Luxembourg") 1275?–1313, king of Germany 1309–13 and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1312–13.
- herbivora — grass-eating animals collectively
- herbivore — a herbivorous animal.
- herbivory — The eating of plants, especially ones that are still living.
- high dive — the performance of a dive from a high board
- high five — a gesture of greeting, good-fellowship, or triumph in which one person slaps the upraised palm of the hand against that of another.
- high-five — a gesture of greeting, good-fellowship, or triumph in which one person slaps the upraised palm of the hand against that of another.
- hilversum — a city in central Netherlands.
- hive mind — the property of apparent sentience in a colony of social insects acting as a single organism, each insect performing a specific role for the good of the group.
- hoovering — to clean with a vacuum cleaner.
- hortative — hortatory.
- housewive — (transitive) To manage with skill and economy.
- hovelling — A method of securing a good draught in chimneys by covering the top, leaving openings in the sides, or by carrying up two of the sides higher than the other two.
- humective — tending to moisten
- i have it — I know the answer
- inveighed — Simple past tense and past participle of inveigh.
- inveigher — One who inveighs.
- john viii — died a.d. 882, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 872–882.
- john xvii — (Sicco) died 1003, pope 1003.
- knaveship — a small proportion of milled grain that was due to the person who did the milling
- knavishly — In a knavish manner.
- kuibyshev — a port in the Russian Federation in Europe, on the Volga.
- kvetching — Present participle of kvetch.
- lavishing — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- leviathan — (often initial capital letter) Bible. a sea monster.
- lightwave — A wave of light.
- live high — to live in luxury
- live with — to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions: all things that live.
- lochinvar — the hero of a ballad included in the narrative poem Marmion (1808) by Sir Walter Scott.
- lovechild — A child born to parents who aren't married to one another.
- lovelight — A fond expression of love in a person's eyes.
- markevich — Igor [ee-guh r] /ˈi gər/ (Show IPA), 1912–83, Russian conductor and composer.
- mechnikov — Ilya Ilyich [ee-lyah ee-lyeech] /iˈlyɑ iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), Metchnikoff, Élie.
- menshevik — a member of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party in opposition to the Bolsheviks: advocated gradual development of full socialism through parliamentary government and cooperation with bourgeois parties; absorbed into the Communist party formed in 1918.
- midheaven — the point of a horoscope corresponding to the zenith: the cusp of the tenth house.