9-letter words containing v, e, s
- harvested — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- harvester — a person who harvests; reaper.
- hash over — a dish of diced or chopped meat and often vegetables, as of leftover corned beef or veal and potatoes, sautéed in a frying pan or of meat, potatoes, and carrots cooked together in gravy.
- have legs — If an idea, plan, or activity has legs, it is likely to continue or succeed.
- have-nots — people who are very poor
- haversack — a single-strapped bag worn over one shoulder and used for carrying supplies.
- haversian — designating or of the canals through which blood vessels and connective tissue pass in bone
- haversine — one half the versed sine of a given angle or arc.
- heatwaves — Plural form of heatwave.
- heaviness — of great weight; hard to lift or carry: a heavy load.
- heaviside — Oliver, 1850–1925, English physicist.
- heavy-set — Someone who is heavy-set has a large solid body.
- helvetius — Claude Adrien [klawd ey-dree-uh n;; French klohd a-dree-ahn] /klɔd ˈeɪ dri ən;; French kloʊd a driˈɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1715–71, French philosopher.
- heyrovsky — Jaroslav [yah-raw-slahf] /ˈyɑ rɔ slɑf/ (Show IPA), 1890–1967, Czech chemist: Nobel Prize 1959.
- hilversum — a city in central Netherlands.
- holdovers — Plural form of holdover.
- housewive — (transitive) To manage with skill and economy.
- hovhaness — Alan, 1911–2000, U.S. composer.
- howsoever — to whatsoever extent or degree.
- illatives — Plural form of illative.
- immensive — (obsolete) huge.
- immersive — noting or relating to digital technology or images that actively engage one's senses and may create an altered mental state: immersive media; immersive 3D environments.
- impassive — without emotion; apathetic; unmoved.
- implosive — characterized by a partial vacuum behind the point of closure.
- improvise — to compose and perform or deliver without previous preparation; extemporize: to improvise an acceptance speech.
- impulsive — actuated or swayed by emotional or involuntary impulses: an impulsive child.
- incensive — Tending to excite or provoke; inflammatory.
- inclusive — including or encompassing the stated limit or extremes in consideration or account (usually used postpositively): from 6 to 37 inclusive.
- incursive — making incursions.
- indeavors — Plural form of indeavor.
- infestive — Tending to infest; acting like an infection.
- ingestive — to take, as food, into the body (opposed to egest).
- ingluvies — a dilation or pouch in the oesophagus of certain animals that receives food prior to the main stomach, esp a bird's craw, or the first stomach of a cow or other ruminating animal
- innovates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of innovate.
- insertive — Of or relating to insertion in sexual acts.
- inservice — taking place while one is employed: an in-service training program.
- insolvent — not solvent; unable to satisfy creditors or discharge liabilities, either because liabilities exceed assets or because of inability to pay debts as they mature.
- insultive — (rare,non-standard) Insulting.
- intensive — of, relating to, or characterized by intensity: intensive questioning.
- intervals — Plural form of interval.
- intrusive — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- invasible — (biology) Capable of being invaded by invasive species.
- inveigles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inveigle.
- inventors — Plural form of inventor.
- inverness — Also called Invernessshire [in-ver-nes-sheer, -sher] /ˌɪn vərˈnɛs ʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in NW Scotland.
- inversely — in an inverse manner.
- inversing — reversed in position, order, direction, or tendency.
- inversion — an act or instance of inverting.
- inversive — noting, pertaining to, or characterized by inversion.
- invertase — an enzyme, occurring in yeast and in the digestive juices of animals, that causes the inversion of cane sugar into invert sugar.