10-letter words containing v, h
- civic hall — a public venue, often used for recreational facilities such as sports clubs or music concerts
- clavichord — A clavichord is a musical instrument rather like a small piano. When you press the keys, small pieces of metal come up and hit the strings. Clavichords were especially popular during the eighteenth century.
- coalheaver — One who feeds coal into a furnace.
- cohesively — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
- cohibitive — restrictive
- crash dive — a sudden steep dive from the surface by a submarine
- crash-dive — a rapid dive by a submarine made at a steep angle, especially to avoid attack from a surface vessel or airplane.
- czarevitch — the eldest son of a czar of Russia
- delivereth — Archaic third-person singular form of deliver.
- devilishly — of, like, or befitting a devil; diabolical; fiendish.
- devonshire — 8th Duke of, title of Spencer Compton Cavendish. 1833–1908, British politician, also known (1858–91) as Lord Hartington. He led the Liberal Party (1874–80) and left it to found the Liberal Unionist Party (1886)
- dichlorvos — an organophosphate insecticide used to control garden and household pests and to treat worm infections
- dish gravy — meat juices, as from a roast, served as a gravy without seasoning or thickening.
- disheveled — hanging loosely or in disorder; unkempt: disheveled hair.
- dovishness — The quality of being a dove (as opposed to a hawk).
- drawshaves — Plural form of drawshave.
- drive home — to cause to penetrate to the fullest extent
- drive-thru — a takeaway restaurant, bank, etc designed so that customers can use it without leaving their cars
- driveshaft — A rotating shaft that transmits torque in an engine.
- duck-shove — to evade responsibility (for)
- duckshover — one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats
- dutch oven — a heavily constructed kettle with a close-fitting lid, used for pot roasts, stews, etc.
- earth wave — any elastic wave traveling through the material of the earth, as a wave caused by an earthquake.
- earthmover — a vehicle, as a bulldozer, for pushing or carrying excavated earth from place to place.
- east haven — a town in S Connecticut, near New Haven.
- echeverria — Esteban [es-te-vahn] /ɛsˈtɛ vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1805–51, Argentine poet.
- echo verse — a poem in which the words or syllables at the end of a line are repeated as a response in the next line, often for ironic purpose.
- eleventhly — in the eleventh place
- escoveitch — (West Indies) escabeche.
- evenhanded — Fair and having no partiality.
- every inch — If you talk about every inch of an area, you are emphasizing that you mean the whole of it.
- everything — All things; all the things of a group or class.
- everywhere — In or to all places.
- exhaustive — Examining, including, or considering all elements or aspects; fully comprehensive.
- exhibitive — Serving for exhibition; representative.
- fever heat — the heat of fever; body heat exceeding 98.6°F (37°C).
- feverishly — having fever.
- flashovers — Plural form of flashover.
- forehooves — Plural form of forehoof.
- give birth — have a baby
- give chase — to pursue in order to seize, overtake, etc.: The police officer chased the thief.
- give forth — to send forth; emit; issue
- glove shop — a shop that sells gloves
- gravenhage — a Dutch name of The Hague.
- haakon vii — (Prince Carl of Denmark) 1872–1957, king of Norway 1905–57: in exile 1940–45.
- hack value — Often adduced as the reason or motivation for expending effort toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being that the accomplished goal is a hack. For example, MacLISP had features for reading and printing Roman numerals, which were installed purely for hack value. See display hack for one method of computing hack value, but this cannot really be explained, only experienced. As Louis Armstrong once said when asked to explain jazz: "Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know." (Feminists please note Fats Waller's explanation of rhythm: "Lady, if you got to ask you ain't got it.")
- hacktivism — the practice of gaining unauthorized access to a computer system and carrying out various disruptive actions as a means of achieving political or social goals: In this form of hacktivism, the hacker tries to alter or deface a government website.
- hacktivist — the practice of gaining unauthorized access to a computer system and carrying out various disruptive actions as a means of achieving political or social goals: In this form of hacktivism, the hacker tries to alter or deface a government website.
- hadrian iv — (Nicholas Breakspear) c1100–59, only Englishman to become pope, 1154–59.
- hadrian vi — 1459–1523, Dutch ecclesiastic: pope 1522–23.