10-letter words containing o, v, i
- housewives — Plural form of housewife.
- hoverflies — Plural form of hoverfly.
- hovertrain — an experimental high-speed train that rides on a cushion of air over a concrete guide track in the shape of an inverted T and is propelled by one or more propellers or jet engines.
- hrotsvitha — c935–c1000, German nun, poet, and dramatist.
- hypervisor — (computing) A software and/or firmware system that provides a virtual machine and allows it to operate directly on underlying hardware (instead of via emulation), but within specified constraints.
- hypoactive — Less than normally active.
- id nouveau — A dataflow language by Arvind <[email protected]> and R.S. Nikhil <[email protected]>, MIT LCS, ca. 1986. Id Nouveau began as a functional language, added streams, resource managers and I-structures (mutable arrays). Loops are syntactic sugar for tail recursion. See also Id.
- ignivomous — (archaic) Throwing out fire, as a volcano does.
- immovables — Plural form of immovable.
- immoveable — Alternative spelling of immovable.
- impervious — not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable: The coat is impervious to rain.
- impoverish — to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war.
- improvable — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
- improve on — refine, develop
- improvised — made or said without previous preparation: an improvised skit.
- improviser — to compose and perform or deliver without previous preparation; extemporize: to improvise an acceptance speech.
- improvises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of improvise.
- in view of — an instance of seeing or beholding; visual inspection.
- in-solvent — not solvent; unable to satisfy creditors or discharge liabilities, either because liabilities exceed assets or because of inability to pay debts as they mature.
- inchoative — inceptive.
- incohesive — Not cohesive.
- indivision — The absence of division; an undivided state.
- innocent v — (Pierre de Tarentaise) c1225–76, French ecclesiastic: pope 1276.
- innovating — Make changes in something established, esp. by introducing new methods, ideas, or products.
- innovation — something new or different introduced: numerous innovations in the high-school curriculum.
- innovative — tending to innovate, or introduce something new or different; characterized by innovation.
- innovators — Plural form of innovator.
- innovatory — to introduce something new; make changes in anything established.
- insolvable — incapable of being solved or explained; insoluble.
- insolvency — the condition of being insolvent; bankruptcy.
- insolvents — Plural form of insolvent.
- intervenor — a person who intervenes, especially in a lawsuit.
- intervolve — (rare) To involve one with another.
- interwoven — to weave together, as threads, strands, branches, or roots.
- introverts — Plural form of introvert.
- inventions — Plural form of invention.
- inventious — (obsolete) inventive.
- inversions — Plural form of inversion.
- invigorant — a tonic.
- invigorate — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- inviolable — prohibiting violation; secure from destruction, violence, infringement, or desecration: an inviolable sanctuary; an inviolable promise.
- inviolably — prohibiting violation; secure from destruction, violence, infringement, or desecration: an inviolable sanctuary; an inviolable promise.
- inviolated — Not violated or injured; inviolate.
- invitation — the act of inviting.
- invitatory — serving to invite; conveying an invitation.
- invocating — invoke.
- invocation — the act of invoking or calling upon a deity, spirit, etc., for aid, protection, inspiration, or the like; supplication.
- invocative — invoke.
- invocatory — the act of invoking or calling upon a deity, spirit, etc., for aid, protection, inspiration, or the like; supplication.
- involucral — Pertaining to, possessing, or like, an involucrum.