10-letter words containing v, h, e
- heavy rain — torrential rainfall
- heavy spar — barite.
- heavy type — type that is thicker and blacker than normal type
- heavy-duty — providing an unusual amount of power, durability, etc.: heavy-duty machinery; heavy-duty shoes.
- henry vane — Sir Henry (Sir Harry Vane) 1613–62, British statesman and author.
- henry viii — ("Defender of the Faith") 1491–1547, king of England 1509–47 (son of Henry VII).
- herbivores — Plural form of herbivore.
- herrenvolk — master race.
- hesitative — characterized by hesitation; hesitating.
- 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.
- hog heaven — heaven (def 6).
- home leave — holiday time for a person who works abroad, during which they can go home
- home movie — an amateur film
- home video — a videotape recorded by camcorder generally for noncommercial use, especially for viewing at home.
- home visit — a visit by a health professional to a patient in their home
- home-lover — a person who enjoys being at home and who is fond of their family
- hoover dam — official name of Boulder Dam.
- hop clover — a trefoil, Trifolium campestre, having withered, yellow flowers that resemble the strobiles of a hop.
- housewives — Plural form of housewife.
- hoverboard — (science fiction) A levitating board that can be ridden in the manner of a surfboard or skateboard.
- hovercraft — ACV.
- hoverflies — Plural form of hoverfly.
- hoverports — Plural form of hoverport.
- 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.
- howsomever — in whatever manner, although
- huntsville — a city in N Alabama: rocket and missile center.
- hyperdrive — (in science fiction) a propulsion system for travel in hyperspace.
- hypernovae — Plural form of hypernova.
- 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.
- impoverish — to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war.
- inchoative — inceptive.
- incohesive — Not cohesive.
- inhibitive — to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
- inveighing — Present participle of inveigh.
- khrushchev — Nikita S(ergeyevich) [ni-kee-tuh sur-gey-uh-vich;; Russian nyi-kyee-tuh syir-gye-yuh-vyich] /nɪˈki tə sɜrˈgeɪ ə vɪtʃ;; Russian nyɪˈkyi tə syɪrˈgyɛ yə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1894–1971, Russian political leader: premier of the U.S.S.R. 1958–64.
- lavishment — The act of lavishing.
- lavishness — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- leontovich — Eugenie Konstantin [kon-stuh n-teen] /ˈkɒn stənˌtin/ (Show IPA), 1900–1993, U.S. actress, director, and playwright, born in Russia.
- level with — having no part higher than another; having a flat or even surface.
- leverhulme — Viscount (William Hesketh Lever) 1851–1925, English soap manufacturer, originator of an employee profit-sharing plan, and founder of a model industrial town.
- leviathans — Plural form of leviathan.
- lévy-bruhl — Lucien (lysjɛ̃). 1857–1939, French anthropologist and philosopher, noted for his study of the psychology of primitive peoples
- light wave — the movement of light conceptualized as a wave, defined by such properties as reflection, refraction, and dispersion
- lightwaves — Plural form of lightwave.
- live birth — the birth of a living child