9-letter words containing a, l, e, v, i
- sea devil — manta (def 4).
- semivocal — of or relating to a semivowel
- shaveling — Older Use: Disparaging. a clergyman with a shaven or tonsured head.
- shavetail — U.S. Army. a second lieutenant.
- slaveling — a person in a condition of servility or slavery.
- slavering — to let saliva run from the mouth; slobber; drool.
- slovenian — of or from Slovenia
- suasively — persuasively; in a persuasive manner
- subniveal — beneath the snow
- swissvale — a city in SW Pennsylvania, on the Monongahela River.
- sylvanite — a mineral, gold silver telluride, (AuAg)Te 2 , silver-white with metallic luster, often occurring in crystals so arranged as to resemble written characters: an ore of gold.
- talkative — inclined to talk a great deal: One drink and she became very talkative.
- traveling — activity: journeying
- trivalent — Chemistry. having a valence of three.
- unavailed — to be of use or value to; profit; advantage: All our efforts availed us little in trying to effect a change.
- univalent — Chemistry. having a valence of one; monovalent.
- univalves — having one valve.
- universal — of, relating to, or characteristic of all or the whole: universal experience.
- unlivable — suitable for living in; habitable; comfortable: It took a lot of work to make the old house livable.
- unrivaled — having no rival or competitor; having no equal; incomparable; supreme: His work is unrivaled for the beauty of its prose.
- vacaville — a city in central California.
- vacillate — to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute: His tendency to vacillate makes him a poor leader.
- valencies — valence.
- valentine — Saint, died a.d. c270, Christian martyr at Rome.
- valentino — Rudolph (Rodolpho d'Antonguolla) 1895–1926, U.S. motion-picture actor, born in Italy.
- validated — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- vandalise — to destroy or deface by vandalism: Someone vandalized the museum during the night.
- vandalize — to destroy or deface by vandalism: Someone vandalized the museum during the night.
- varicella — chickenpox.
- variolate — resembling smallpox, as a lesion.
- variolite — a rock embedded with varioles; a variolitic rock.
- vassalize — to make a vassal of
- vauquelin — Louis Nicolas [lwee nee-kaw-lah] /lwi ni kɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), 1763–1829, French chemist: discoverer of chromium and beryllium.
- veblenian — of, relating to, or suggesting the theories of Thorstein Veblen.
- 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.
- velarized — pronounced with velar coarticulation.
- vellicate — to pluck; twitch.
- veniality — able to be forgiven or pardoned; not seriously wrong, as a sin (opposed to mortal).
- ventilate — to provide (a room, mine, etc.) with fresh air in place of air that has been used or contaminated.
- verapamil — a white crystalline powder, C 27 H 38 N 2 O 4 , used as a calcium blocker in the treatment of angina and certain arrhythmias.
- verbalise — to express in words: He couldn't verbalize his feelings.
- verbalism — a verbal expression, as a word or phrase.
- verbalist — a person skilled in the use of words.
- verbality — wordiness; verbal diffuseness: a speech full of tedious verbality.
- verbalize — to express in words: He couldn't verbalize his feelings.
- vergilian — pertaining to or characteristic of the poet Vergil.
- veridical — truthful; veracious.
- veritable — being truly or very much so: a veritable triumph.
- veritably — being truly or very much so: a veritable triumph.