9-letter words containing a, k, v
- navpaktos — Greek name of Lepanto.
- nikolayev — a city in S Ukraine, in the SW on the Bug River.
- oak grove — a small group or orchard of oak trees
- okovanggo — river in SW Africa, flowing from central Angola southeast into a marshy basin (Okovanggo Basin) in N Botswana: c. 1,000 mi (1,609 km)
- over-talk — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- overbaked — to cook by dry heat in an oven or on heated metal or stones.
- overbrake — to brake (a wheel, vehicle, etc.) excessively.
- overbreak — earth or rock excavated outside of neat lines.
- overfrank — too frank
- paasikivi — Juho Kusti [yoo -haw koo s-ti] /ˈyʊ hɔ ˈkʊs tɪ/ (Show IPA), 1870–1956, Finnish statesman: president 1946–56.
- parkville — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
- perovskia — a member of the Perovskia genus of aromatic plant native to central Asia, esp Russian sage, Perovskia atriplicifolia
- plekhanov — Georgi (or Georgy) Valentinovich [gyi-awr-gyee-vuh-lyin-tyee-nuh-vyich] /gyɪˈɔr gyi və lyɪnˈtyi nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1857–1918, Russian philosopher and leader of the Mensheviks.
- rake over — If you say that someone is raking over something that has been said, done, or written in the past, you mean that they are examining and discussing it in detail, in a way that you do not think is very pleasant.
- rave hook — a hooklike tool for reaming old oakum out of seams in planking.
- ravenlike — resembling a raven
- revokable — that may be revoked.
- reykjavik — a large island in the N Atlantic between Greenland and Scandinavia. 39,698 sq. mi. (102,820 sq. km).
- riverbank — the slopes bordering a river.
- riverwalk — a paved walkway along the side of a river
- ruvo kale — broccoli rabe.
- sackville — Thomas, 1st Earl of Dorset, 1536–1608, English statesman and poet.
- sevenbark — wild hydrangea.
- shockwave — (tool) A program from Macromedia for viewing files created with Macromedia Director. Shockwave is freely available as a plug-in for the Netscape Navigator web browser. "Shocked" pages that incorporate documents created in Director can usually only be enjoyed by users with an ISDN or faster connection.
- slavenska — Mia [mee-ah] /ˈmi ɑ/ (Show IPA), (Mia Corak) 1914?–2002, U.S. dancer and choreographer, born in Yugoslavia.
- slavyansk — a city in E central Ukraine, NW of Donetsk.
- slovakian — a republic in central Europe: formerly a part of Czechoslovakia; under German protection 1939–45; independent since 1993. 18,931 sq. mi. (49,035 sq. km). Capital: Bratislava.
- souvlakia — a dish similar to shish kebab made with lamb.
- sparkover — spark1 (def 2).
- stakhanov — a city in E Ukraine, W of Lugnask.
- syktyvkar — an autonomous republic in the NW Russian Federation in Europe. 145,221 sq. mi. (376,122 sq. km). Capital: Syktyvkar.
- take five — a cardinal number, four plus one.
- take over — the act of taking.
- take vows — to enter a religious order and commit oneself to its rule of life by the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, which may be taken for a limited period as simple vows or as a perpetual and still more solemn commitment as solemn vows
- talk over — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- talkative — inclined to talk a great deal: One drink and she became very talkative.
- tarkovsky — Andrei (ˈɑndrej). 1932–86, Soviet film director, whose films include Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1971), Nostalgia (1983), and The Sacrifice (1986)
- ulyanovsk — a city in the W Russian Federation, on the Volga River: birthplace of Lenin.
- valkyrian — any of the beautiful maidens attendant upon Odin who bring the souls of slain warriors chosen by Odin or Tyr to Valhalla and there wait upon them.
- van dyken — Amy, born 1973, U.S. swimmer.
- van vleck — John H(asbrouck) [haz-broo k] /ˈhæz brʊk/ (Show IPA), 1899–1980, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1977.
- view mark — a mark stamped on antique armor or metalwork to indicate inspection and approval by the guild or by officials at the place of manufacture.
- vitamin k — menadione.
- volksraad — the legislative assembly of the Boer republics in South Africa during the latter half of the 19th century
- voorkamer — the front room, esp of a Cape Dutch house or farmhouse
- vraicking — the act of gathering vraic
- wakeovers — Plural form of wakeover.
- walk over — If someone walks over you, they treat you very badly.
- walkovers — Plural form of walkover.
- wave tank — a shallow container of water in which waves are produced by vibrating an object in the water, used to observe or demonstrate wave phenomena.