11-letter words containing v, e, a
- heaven-sent — providentially opportune: A heaven-sent rain revived the crops.
- heavenliest — Superlative form of heavenly.
- heavenwards — Also, heavenwards. toward heaven.
- heavy chain — a type of polypeptide chain present in an immunoglobulin molecule
- heavy cream — thick cream having a high percentage of butterfat.
- heavy crude — a type of crude oil that does not flow easily and has greater viscosity and specific density than other types of crude
- heavy going — a soft and muddy surface to race on
- heavy metal — big iron
- heavy water — water in which hydrogen atoms have been replaced by deuterium, used chiefly as a coolant in nuclear reactors.
- heavy-laden — carrying a heavy load; heavily laden: a heavy-laden cart.
- heavyweight — heavy in weight.
- heptavalent — septivalent.
- hercegovina — Herzegovina.
- hereinabove — before in this document, statement, etc.
- herzegovina — a historic region in SE Europe: a former Turkish province; a part of Austria-Hungary 1878–1914; now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- hib vaccine — a vaccine against meningitis, pneumonia, and other illnesses caused by the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae type b: usually administered during infancy.
- hiv-related — related to the HIV virus
- hoverboards — Plural form of hoverboard.
- hovercrafts — (nonstandard) Plural form of hovercraft.
- humiliative — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- hyattsville — a city in central Maryland.
- hyperactive — unusually or abnormally active: a company's hyperactive growth; the child's hyperactive imagination.
- hyperovaria — precocious sexuality in girls due to abnormally heavy ovarian secretion.
- hypervalent — (chemistry) having a higher than normal valence.
- hypovolemia — A decreased volume of circulating blood in the body.
- ill-advised — acting or done without due consideration; imprudent: an ill-advised remark.
- ill-behaved — 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties. 2. Software that bypasses the defined operating system interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software. In the IBM PC/mess-dos world, there is a folk theorem (nearly true) to the effect that (owing to gross inadequacies and performance penalties in the OS interface) all interesting applications are ill-behaved. See also bare metal. Opposite: well-behaved, compare PC-ism.
- ill-favored — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- imaginative — characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
- imitatively — In an imitative manner.
- immoveables — incapable of being moved; fixed; stationary.
- impassively — without emotion; apathetic; unmoved.
- imperatival — of, relating to, or characteristic of the grammatical imperative.
- imperatives — Plural form of imperative.
- imperviable — Impervious.
- implicative — tending to implicate or imply; characterized by or involving implication.
- improvisate — To improvise; to extemporize.
- inactivated — Simple past tense and past participle of inactivate.
- inactivates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inactivate.
- inadvertent — unintentional: an inadvertent insult.
- inadvisable — not advisable; inexpedient; unwise.
- inadvisedly — In a manner that is not advisable.
- inattentive — not attentive; negligent.
- inavertible — Not avertible.
- incarvillea — any plant of the genus Incarvillea, native to China, of which some species are grown as garden or greenhouse plants for their large usually carmine-coloured trumpet-shaped flowers, esp I. delavayi: family Bignoniaceae
- inculcative — to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly (usually followed by upon or in): to inculcate virtue in the young.
- individable — indivisible
- individuate — to form into an individual or distinct entity.
- inequivalve — (of a bivalve mollusk) having the valves of the shell unequal in shape and size.
- inevitables — Plural form of inevitable.