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12-letter words containing v, a, h, i

  • heavyweights — Plural form of heavyweight.
  • heliogravure — photoengraving.
  • hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
  • 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-negative — not infected with the HIV virus
  • hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
  • 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.
  • hypergravity — The presence of an apparently 'increased' gravitational field in an accelerating or rotating situation.
  • hypervolemia — (medicine) An abnormal increase in the volume of blood circulating through the body.
  • hypovolaemia — Alternative form of hypovolemia.
  • inchoatively — in an inchoative or rudimentary fashion; initially
  • inexhaustive — not exhaustive; not thorough
  • java archive — (file format, filename extension)   (jar) A compressed archive file containing Java class files, filename extension: ".jar". The Java Development Kit contains a tool called "jar" for creating .jar files, similar to the standard Unix tar command. As well as archiving and compressing the Java class files, it also inserts a "manifest" file which can contain information about the class files, such as a digital signature. Combining class files into a single archive file makes it possible to download them in a single HTTP transaction. This, and the compression, speeds up execution of Java programs delivered via the Internet. (2001}-02-03)
  • javelin fish — a fish of the genus Pomadasys of semitropical Australian seas with a long spine on its anal fin
  • kurchatovium — (chemistry) A rejected name for rutherfordium.
  • leave behind — fail to bring
  • living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
  • machiavelian — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
  • malvern hill — a plateau in E Virginia, SE of Richmond: battle 1862.
  • markov chain — a Markov process restricted to discrete random events or to discontinuous time sequences.
  • michael viii — surnamed Palaeologus (ˈpælɪəˌləʊɡəs). 1224–82, Byzantine emperor (1259–82); founder of the Palaeologan dynasty. His reign saw the recovery of Constantinople from the Latins (1261) and the reunion (1274) of the Greek and Roman churches
  • misbehaviour — (British) alternative spelling of misbehavior.
  • nail varnish — nail polish.
  • non-achiever — a person who consistently fails to achieve, esp academically
  • nonvanishing — (mathematics) (of a quantity) that is nonzero at all points in a space.
  • nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
  • olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.
  • orthovanadic — relating to orthovanadates
  • over-the-air — of or relating to any means of broadcast transmission.
  • overachieved — Simple past tense and past participle of overachieve.
  • overachiever — to perform, especially academically, above the potential indicated by tests of one's mental ability or aptitude.
  • overcharging — Present participle of overcharge.
  • overemphasis — excessive or undue emphasis.
  • overemphatic — excessive or undue emphasis.
  • overreaching — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
  • pancho-villa — Francisco [frahn-sees-kaw] /frɑnˈsis kɔ/ (Show IPA), (Doroteo Arango"Pancho Villa") 1877–1923, Mexican general and revolutionist.
  • petach tikva — a city in W Israel, NE of Tel Aviv.
  • photovoltaic — of or relating to the photovoltaic effect.
  • psychoactive — of or relating to a substance having a profound or significant effect on mental processes: a psychoactive drug.
  • raven-haired — with glossy deep black hair
  • shaving foam — lather used for shaving
  • shaving soap — a special soap for lathering the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving, capable of producing a thick lather due to its high fat content and low alkalinity.
  • shiva-shakti — the Godhead, of which the masculine, passive, transcendent, eternal principle is Shiva, and the feminine, active, immanent, temporal principle is Shakti, the Divine Mother.
  • shostakovich — Dimitri Dimitrievich [dih-mee-tree di-mee-tree-uh-vich;; Russian dmyee-tryee dmyee-tryi-yi-vyich] /dɪˈmi tri dɪˈmi tri ə vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈdmyi tryi ˈdmyi tryɪ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1906–75, Russian composer.
  • sivapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene primates of Asia that resemble the modern orangutan.
  • spar varnish — a durable, weather-resistant varnish applied to unpainted wooden areas, especially on ships.
  • stakhanovism — a method for increasing production by rewarding individual initiative, developed in the Soviet Union in 1935.
  • stakhanovite — a worker in the Soviet Union who regularly surpassed production quotas and was specially honored and rewarded.
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