10-letter words containing l, e, v
- foot valve — a nonreturn valve at the inlet end of a pipe
- foresleeve — the part of the sleeve covering the forearm.
- forgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- foveolated — Foveolate.
- free liver — a person who follows a way of life that freely indulges the appetites, desires, etc.
- fugitively — In a fugitive manner.
- full-serve — full-service
- galavanted — Simple past tense and past participle of galavant.
- galvanised — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- galvaniser — Alternative spelling of galvanizer.
- galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- galvanizer — One who, or that which, galvanizes.
- galvanizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of galvanize.
- gate valve — a valve in a pipe or channel having a sliding plate that controls the flow
- gear lever — gearshift.
- genitively — in a genitive manner
- gilravager — someone who makes merry, esp to excess
- give place — to make room
- glaze over — If your eyes glaze over, they become dull and lose all expression, usually because you are bored or are thinking about something else.
- glendoveer — a heavenly sprite
- gloss over — an explanation or translation, by means of a marginal or interlinear note, of a technical or unusual expression in a manuscript text.
- glove shop — a shop that sells gloves
- glove silk — a warp knit fabric made of silk or nylon, used in the manufacture of gloves and undergarments.
- glovemaker — A maker of gloves; a glover.
- gold fever — greed and excitement caused by a gold rush.
- gooseliver — smoked liver sausage
- governable — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- grandville — a town in SW Michigan.
- gravel pit — an open cast working for the extraction of gravel
- gravelling — Present participle of gravel.
- graveolent — That has a rank smell.
- greek love — anal intercourse.
- greenville — a city in NW South Carolina.
- greynville — Sir Richard, Grenville, Sir Richard.
- grievingly — In a grieving manner.
- grievously — causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
- grovelling — to humble oneself or act in an abject manner, as in great fear or utter servility.
- 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.")
- 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.
- heat devil — a wavering, shimmering disturbance of air above or around a hot surface.
- herrenvolk — master race.
- hexavalent — having a valence of six.
- hicksville — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- high liver — a person who lives extravagantly or luxuriously.
- high-level — undertaken by or composed of participants having a high status: a high-level meeting; a high-level investigation.
- hinesville — a town in SE Georgia.
- home leave — holiday time for a person who works abroad, during which they can go home
- home-lover — a person who enjoys being at home and who is fond of their family
- hop clover — a trefoil, Trifolium campestre, having withered, yellow flowers that resemble the strobiles of a hop.