9-letter words containing a, l, t, v
- fan vault — a vault composed of a number of concave conoidal surfaces, usually four, springing from the corners of the vaulting compartment and touching or intersecting at the top, often decorated with ribs.
- faveolate — honeycombed; alveolate; pitted.
- festivals — Plural form of festival.
- flavorist — a person whose job is to blend natural and artificial ingredients to create the taste and smell of a specific food.
- fluviatic — living or growing in streams
- foveolate — having foveolae, or very small pits.
- gallivant — to wander about, seeking pleasure or diversion; gad.
- galvanist — a person who studies or practises galvanism
- galveston — a seaport in SE Texas, on an island at the mouth of Galveston Bay.
- genitival — (in certain inflected languages) noting a case of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives, used primarily to express possession, measure, or origin: as John's hat, week's vacation, duty's call.
- helvetian — of or relating to Helvetia or the Helvetii.
- 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.
- illatives — Plural form of illative.
- illuviate — to undergo illuviation.
- inflative — causing inflation; tending to inflate (something) or produce swelling
- intervale — a low-lying tract of land along a river.
- intervals — Plural form of interval.
- inviolate — free from violation, injury, desecration, or outrage.
- isolative — noting a change in part of the sound of a word made independently of the phonetic environment of that part.
- java jolt — the alert state of mind obtained after a drink of strong coffee
- jive talk — black American slang
- joviality — the state or quality of being jovial; merriment; jollity.
- lactivist — a person, esp a woman, who advocates strongly the breast-feeding of children, and is opposed to bottle-feeding
- lambative — (archaic) Taken by licking with the tongue.
- lambitive — a medicine that is taken by licking it with the tongue
- larvikite — a blue-grey syenite that contains feldspar crystals, often used as an ornamental facing on the walls of buildings
- laticlave — (in ancient Rome) a broad purple stripe on the tunic of a Roman senator or high-ranking official, denoting their high social position
- laudative — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
- lavateras — Plural form of lavatera.
- lavations — Plural form of lavation.
- laxatives — Plural form of laxative.
- leave out — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
- levanters — Plural form of levanter.
- levantine — of or relating to the Levant.
- levanting — Present participle of levant.
- leviathan — (often initial capital letter) Bible. a sea monster.
- levigated — Simple past tense and past participle of levigate.
- levigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of levigate.
- levitated — Simple past tense and past participle of levitate.
- levitical — of or relating to the Levites.
- lightwave — A wave of light.
- live data — 1. Data that is written to be interpreted and takes over program flow when triggered by some un-obvious operation, such as viewing it. One use of such hacks is to break security. For example, some smart terminals have commands that allow one to download strings to program keys; this can be used to write live data that, when listed to the terminal, infects it with a security-breaking virus that is triggered the next time a hapless user strikes that key. For another, there are some well-known bugs in vi that allow certain texts to send arbitrary commands back to the machine when they are simply viewed. 2. In C, data that includes pointers to functions (executable code). 3. An object, such as a trampoline, that is constructed on the fly by a program and intended to be executed as code. 4. Actual real-world data, as opposed to "test data". For example, "I think I have the record deletion module finished." "Have you tried it out on live data?" This usage usually carries the connotation that live data is more fragile and must not be corrupted, or bad things will happen. So a more appropriate response to the above claim might be: "Well, make sure it works perfectly before we throw live data at it." The implication here is that record deletion is something pretty significant, and a haywire record-deletion module running amok on live data would probably cause great harm.
- live trap — a trap for capturing a wild animal alive and without injury.
- lixiviate — to treat with a solvent; leach.
- locatives — Plural form of locative.
- love seat — a small upholstered sofa for two people
- love-hate — characterized simultaneously by feelings of love and hate
- lovecraft — H(oward) P(hillips) 1890–1937, U.S. horror-story writer.
- loveseats — Plural form of loveseat.
- lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.