9-letter words containing a, c, i, v, e
- cavitated — Simple past tense and past participle of cavitate.
- cessative — (of a verbal form or aspect) expressing cessation.
- cevapcici — a small rolled patty of ground meat, usually beef, seasoned with paprika and garlic, popular in Eastern Europe
- chevalier — a member of certain orders of merit, such as the French Legion of Honour
- ci-devant — (esp of an office-holder) former; recent
- civet cat — any of several nocturnal, catlike carnivores (family Viverridae) of Africa, India, Malaysia, and S China, with spotted, yellowish fur: valued for its civet (sense 1)
- civitates — the body of citizens who constitute a state, especially a city-state, commonwealth, or the like.
- clavering — Present participle of claver.
- clavicles — Plural form of clavicle.
- coevality — The condition of being coeval.
- collative — involving collation
- combative — A person who is combative is aggressive and eager to fight or argue.
- corrasive — Obsolete form of corrosive.
- covariate — a statistical variable that changes in a predictable way and can be used to predict the outcome of a study
- cravening — Present participle of craven.
- creatives — Plural form of creative.
- crimewave — a period of increased criminal activity
- cultivate — If you cultivate land or crops, you prepare land and grow crops on it.
- curvative — (of leaves) having curved edges
- deviances — deviant quality or state.
- divalence — the state of being divalent
- echeveria — any of numerous succulent plants of the genus Echeveria, native to tropical America and having thick leaves characteristically forming rosettes.
- educative — serving to educate: educative knowledge.
- embracive — (archaic) Disposed to embrace; fond of caressing.
- enhancive — Tending to enhance something.
- equivocal — Open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous.
- evangelic — Evangelical.
- evocating — Present participle of evocate.
- evocation — The act of calling out or forth, or evoking.
- evocative — Bringing strong images, memories, or feelings to mind.
- factitive — noting or pertaining to verbs that express the idea of making or rendering in a certain way and that take a direct object and an additional word or group of words indicating the result of the process, as made in They made him king.
- fricative — (of a speech sound) characterized by audible friction produced by forcing the breath through a constricted or partially obstructed passage in the vocal tract; spirantal; spirant.
- give back — return: sth to sb
- give-back — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
- givebacks — Plural form of giveback.
- grievance — a wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress: Inequitable taxation is the chief grievance.
- helvetica — (text) One of the most widely used sans-serif typefaces, developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann. Originally called Neue Haas Grotesk, it was renamed Helvetica for the international market. Helvetica is very similar to the common Arial typeface. The name is Latin for Swiss.
- impactive — caused by impact: impactive pain.
- incurvate — curved, especially inward.
- invacuate — To confine (people) to a closed area in an emergency situation.
- inviscate — To daub or catch with glue or birdlime; to entangle with glutinous matter.
- invocable — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
- invocated — invoke.
- larvacide — Alternative spelling of larvicide.
- larvicide — an agent for killing larvae.
- laticlave — (in ancient Rome) a broad purple stripe on the tunic of a Roman senator or high-ranking official, denoting their high social position
- levitical — of or relating to the Levites.
- locatives — Plural form of locative.
- lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- markevich — Igor [ee-guh r] /ˈi gər/ (Show IPA), 1912–83, Russian conductor and composer.