12-letter words containing i, t, v
- haricot vert — green bean.
- 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.
- 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
- heavy hitter — a baseball player who makes many extra-base hits.
- heavyweights — Plural form of heavyweight.
- hectic fever — a fever associated with tuberculosis
- high voltage — high-power electricity
- high-voltage — operating on or powered by high voltage: a high-voltage generator.
- 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.
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- hypergravity — The presence of an apparently 'increased' gravitational field in an accelerating or rotating situation.
- hypertensive — characterized by or causing high blood pressure.
- ibota privet — a Japanese spreading shrub, Ligustrum obtusifolium, of the olive family, having hairy leaves and nodding white flower clusters.
- idiot savant — a mentally defective person with an exceptional skill or talent in a special field, as a highly developed ability to play music or to solve complex mathematical problems mentally at great speed.
- il trovatore — an opera (1853) by Giuseppe Verdi.
- Îles du vent — a group of islands in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia in the W Society Archipelago: Moorea, Maio (Tubuai Manu), and Mehetia and Tetiaroa. Pop: 184 222 (2002)
- illuminative — giving light; illuminating.
- illustrative — serving to illustrate; explanatory: illustrative examples.
- immovability — incapable of being moved; fixed; stationary.
- imperatively — absolutely necessary or required; unavoidable: It is imperative that we leave.
- imperceptive — not perceptive; lacking perception.
- imperfective — noting an aspect of the verb, as in Russian, that indicates incompleteness of the action or state at a temporal point of reference.
- improvements — Plural form of improvement.
- improvisator — a person who improvises; improviser.
- imputatively — In an imputative fashion or manner.
- in any event — whatever the situation
- in the event — You say in the event after you have been discussing what could have happened in a particular situation, in order to indicate that you are now describing what actually did happen.
- in-effective — not effective; not producing results; ineffectual: ineffective efforts; ineffective remedies.
- inactivating — Present participle of inactivate.
- inactivation — The process of rendering something inactive.
- inadvertence — the quality or condition of being inadvertent; heedlessness.
- inadvertency — inadvertence.
- incentivised — Simple past tense and past participle of incentivise.
- incentivises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incentivise.
- incentivized — to give incentives to: The government should incentivize the private sector to create jobs.
- incentivizes — to give incentives to: The government should incentivize the private sector to create jobs.
- inchoatively — in an inchoative or rudimentary fashion; initially
- incogitative — Not cogitative; lacking the power of thought.
- inconvenient — not easily accessible or at hand: The phone is in an inconvenient place.
- inconversant — Not conversant or acquainted (with something); unfamiliar.