9-letter words containing a, c, n, e, v
- grievance — a wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress: Inequitable taxation is the chief grievance.
- 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.
- larvacean — Any of various solitary, free-swimming tunicates of the class Larvacea.
- navicerts — Plural form of navicert.
- niah cave — a limestone cave in Sarawak, Borneo, the site of the discovery of one of the earliest anatomically modern Homo sapiens skulls, dated c38,000 b.c.
- nonactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- noviciate — The period during which you are a novice.
- novocaine — Procaine.
- overclean — too clean
- provencal — of or relating to Provence, its people, or their language.
- readvance — to advance again or further
- relevance — the condition of being relevant, or connected with the matter at hand: Some traditional institutions of the media lack relevance in this digital age.
- relevancy — the condition of being relevant, or connected with the matter at hand: Some traditional institutions of the media lack relevance in this digital age.
- rounceval — a variety of large pea
- scavenger — an animal or other organism that feeds on dead organic matter.
- schiavone — the Italian name for a 17th century basket-hilted sword with a double edge
- severance — the act of severing or the state of being severed.
- sovenance — memory
- vaccinate — to inoculate with the vaccine of cowpox so as to render the subject immune to smallpox.
- valencies — valence.
- van vleck — John H(asbrouck) [haz-broo k] /ˈhæz brʊk/ (Show IPA), 1899–1980, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1977.
- vancouver — George, 1758–98, English explorer.
- vena cava — either of two large veins discharging blood into the right atrium of the heart, one (superior vena cava or precava) conveying blood from the head, chest, and upper extremities and the other (inferior vena cava or postcava) conveying blood from all parts below the diaphragm.
- vengeance — infliction of injury, harm, humiliation, or the like, on a person by another who has been harmed by that person; violent revenge: But have you the right to vengeance?
- ventifact — a pebble or cobble that has been faceted, grooved, and polished by the erosive action of wind-driven sand.
- vicennial — of or for 20 years.
- vigilance — state or quality of being vigilant; watchfulness: Vigilance is required in the event of treachery.
- vinaceous — of, relating to, or resembling wine or grapes.
- vindicate — to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
- vocalness — of, relating to, or uttered with the voice: the vocal mechanism; vocal criticism.
- volcanize — to affect or alter by volcanic heat or action.
- volcanoes — a vent in the earth's crust through which lava, steam, ashes, etc., are expelled, either continuously or at irregular intervals.
- vulcanise — to treat (rubber) with sulfur and heat, thereby imparting strength, greater elasticity, durability, etc.
- vulcanite — a hard, readily cut and polished rubber, obtained by vulcanizing rubber with a large amount of sulfur, used in the manufacture of combs, buttons, and for electric insulation.
- vulcanize — to treat (rubber) with sulfur and heat, thereby imparting strength, greater elasticity, durability, etc.