12-letter words containing h, i, v
- give the eye — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- governorship — the duties, term in office, etc., of a governor.
- habilitative — to clothe or dress.
- hair removal — depilatory treatment
- hair remover — depilatory cream
- halls of ivy — an institution of higher learning; university or college; the academic world.
- hand-deliver — to deliver in person or by messenger.
- haricot vert — green bean.
- harlem river — tidal river separating Manhattan Island from the Bronx &, with Spuyten Duyvil Creek, connecting the East River with the Hudson: c. 8 mi (12.9 km)
- harvest mite — chigger (def 1).
- harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
- harvest time — season when crops are gathered
- haute-savoie — a department in E France. 1775 sq. mi. (4595 sq. km). Capital: Annecy.
- haute-vienne — a department in central France. 2145 sq. mi. (5555 sq. km). Capital: Limoges.
- havana cigar — any of various cigars hand rolled in Cuba, known esp for their high quality
- have in mind — to remember
- have it away — to have sexual intercourse
- have it good — to be in comfortable circumstances
- have it made — simple past tense and past participle of make1 .
- have kittens — to react with disapproval, anxiety, etc
- have pity on — to have sympathy or show mercy for
- heavenliness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being heavenly.
- heavy hitter — a baseball player who makes many extra-base hits.
- heavyweights — Plural form of heavyweight.
- hectic fever — a fever associated with tuberculosis
- heliogravure — photoengraving.
- helping verb — auxiliary verb.
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- herbivourous — Misspelling of herbivorous.
- heroic verse — a form of verse adapted to the treatment of heroic or exalted themes: in classical poetry, dactylic hexameter; in English and German, iambic pentameter; and in French, the Alexandrine. An example of heroic verse is Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring / Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing!
- high voltage — high-power electricity
- high-voltage — operating on or powered by high voltage: a high-voltage generator.
- hiram revels — Hiram Rhoades [rohdz] /roʊdz/ (Show IPA), 1822–1901, U.S. clergyman, educator, and politician: first black senator 1870–71.
- hiv positive — (of a person) diagnosed by a test as being infected with HIV.
- hiv-negative — not infected with the HIV virus
- hiv-positive — (of a person) diagnosed by a test as being infected with HIV.
- hoovervilles — a collection of huts and shacks, as at the edge of a city, housing the unemployed during the 1930s.
- hopkinsville — a city in S Kentucky.
- horned viper — a highly venomous viper, Cerastes cerastes, of northern Africa and extreme southwestern Asia, having a process resembling a horn just above each eye.
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- hudson river — Henry, died 1611? English navigator and explorer.
- humeral veil — a fringed scarf, usually white and ornamented in the middle, worn over the shoulders by a priest or subdeacon during certain parts of a High Mass.
- hybrid vigor — heterosis.
- hypergravity — The presence of an apparently 'increased' gravitational field in an accelerating or rotating situation.
- hypertensive — characterized by or causing high blood pressure.
- hypervolemia — (medicine) An abnormal increase in the volume of blood circulating through the body.
- hypovolaemia — Alternative form of hypovolemia.
- impoverished — reduced to poverty.
- impoverisher — Someone who impoverishes.
- impoverishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impoverish.