9-letter words containing a, c, l, i, v
- evangelic — Evangelical.
- fluviatic — living or growing in streams
- 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.
- illiac iv — (computer) One of the most infamous supercomputers ever. It used early ideas on SIMD (single instruction stream, multiple data streams). The project started in 1965, it used 64 processors and a 13MHz clock. In 1976 it ran its first sucessfull application. It had 1MB memory (64x16KB). Its actual performance was 15 MFLOPS, it was estimated in initial predictions to be 1000 MFLOPS. It totally failed as a computer, only a quarter of the fully planned machine was ever built, costs escalated from the $8 million estimated in 1966 to $31 million by 1972, and the computer took three more years of enginering before it was operational. The only good it did was to push research forward a bit, leading way for machines such as the Thinking Machines CM-1 and CM-2.
- invocable — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
- lactivist — a person, esp a woman, who advocates strongly the breast-feeding of children, and is opposed to bottle-feeding
- 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
- lay vicar — a member of a cathedral choir appointed to sing certain parts of the services
- levitical — of or relating to the Levites.
- locatives — Plural form of locative.
- lochinvar — the hero of a ballad included in the narrative poem Marmion (1808) by Sir Walter Scott.
- lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- navicular — boat-shaped, as certain bones.
- olfactive — Of or pertaining to the sense of smell; olfactory.
- overclaim — to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
- percivale — a knight who is allowed to see the Holy Grail
- piacevole — (to be performed) in a pleasant, agreeable manner
- placative — placatory.
- revictual — to victual or provide with food again
- sackville — Thomas, 1st Earl of Dorset, 1536–1608, English statesman and poet.
- semivocal — of or relating to a semivowel
- slavicism — Slavism.
- slavicist — a specialist in the study of the Slavic languages or literatures.
- vacaville — a city in central California.
- vacillant — wavering; hesitant; indecisive; vacillating.
- vacillate — to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute: His tendency to vacillate makes him a poor leader.
- valencies — valence.
- varicella — chickenpox.
- varifocal — having a focus that can vary
- vaticinal — of, relating to, or characterized by prophecy; prophetic.
- vectorial — Mathematics. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of which is proportional to the magnitude. Compare scalar (def 4). such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities obey the parallelogram law of addition. such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities are to transform in a particular way under changes of the coordinate system. any generalization of the above quantities.
- vehicular — of, relating to, or for vehicles: a vehicular tunnel.
- vellicate — to pluck; twitch.
- veridical — truthful; veracious.
- vesicular — of or relating to a vesicle or vesicles.
- vicegeral — of or relating to a vicegerent or a vicegerent's position.
- vicennial — of or for 20 years.
- viceregal — of or relating to a viceroy.
- victualer — a person who furnishes victuals, especially a sutler.
- vigilance — state or quality of being vigilant; watchfulness: Vigilance is required in the event of treachery.
- vin blanc — white wine.
- viricidal — of or relating to viricides; destroying viruses
- virilocal — Anthropology. living with or located near the husband's father's group; patrilocal.
- virucidal — an agent for destroying viruses.
- vocalised — to make vocal; utter; articulate; sing.
- voicemail — an electronic system enabling the recording and storage of (usually digitized) voice messages, which can subsequently be retrieved by the intended recipient.
- volacious — able or fit to fly.
- volcanics — types of rock