10-letter words containing a, l, v, e
- gravel pit — an open cast working for the extraction of gravel
- gravelling — Present participle of gravel.
- graveolent — That has a rank smell.
- hack value — Often adduced as the reason or motivation for expending effort toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being that the accomplished goal is a hack. For example, MacLISP had features for reading and printing Roman numerals, which were installed purely for hack value. See display hack for one method of computing hack value, but this cannot really be explained, only experienced. As Louis Armstrong once said when asked to explain jazz: "Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know." (Feminists please note Fats Waller's explanation of rhythm: "Lady, if you got to ask you ain't got it.")
- half-alive — having life; living; existing; not dead or lifeless.
- hand level — a leveling instrument held in the hand and used for approximate work at short distances.
- heat devil — a wavering, shimmering disturbance of air above or around a hot surface.
- hexavalent — having a valence of six.
- home leave — holiday time for a person who works abroad, during which they can go home
- illatively — By means of illation.
- immovables — Plural form of immovable.
- immoveable — Alternative spelling of immovable.
- improvable — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
- inactively — In an inactive manner.
- inevasible — Incapable of being evaded.
- inevitable — unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary: an inevitable conclusion.
- inevitably — unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary: an inevitable conclusion.
- insalivate — to mix with saliva, as food.
- insolvable — incapable of being solved or explained; insoluble.
- insulative — serving to protect or insulate: glassware shipped in insulative packing.
- interleave — to provide blank leaves in (a book) for notes or written comments.
- intervales — Plural form of intervale.
- intervital — existing or occurring between two lives, such as between humanly death and heavenly existence
- invalidate — to render invalid; discredit.
- invaluable — beyond calculable or appraisable value; of inestimable worth; priceless: an invaluable art collection; her invaluable assistance.
- invariable — not variable; not changing or capable of being changed; static or constant.
- invasively — In an invasive manner.
- inventable — to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph.
- investable — that can be invested.
- invigilate — to keep watch.
- inviolable — prohibiting violation; secure from destruction, violence, infringement, or desecration: an inviolable sanctuary; an inviolable promise.
- inviolated — Not violated or injured; inviolate.
- irrelative — not relative; without relation (usually followed by to).
- irrelevant — not relevant; not applicable or pertinent: His lectures often stray to interesting but irrelevant subjects.
- isoflavone — a phytoestrogen produced chiefly by plants of the legume family, especially soybeans, potentially useful in lowering cholesterol and in treating some cancers and menopausal symptoms.
- ivy league — a group of colleges and universities in the northeastern U.S., consisting of Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, and Brown, having a reputation for high scholastic achievement and social prestige.
- jadotville — former name of Likasi.
- jail fever — a former name for typhus, once a common disease in jails
- janesville — a city in S Wisconsin.
- javelineer — A soldier who throws a javelin.
- javelinier — A soldier who throws a javelin.
- jovialness — endowed with or characterized by a hearty, joyous humor or a spirit of good-fellowship: a wonderfully jovial host.
- juvenalian — (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) a.d. c60–140, Roman poet.
- kabalevsky — Dmitri [duh-mee-tree;; Russian dmyee-tryee] /dəˈmi tri;; Russian ˈdmyi tryi/ (Show IPA), 1904–1987, Russian composer.
- keep-alive — (communications) A short message sent periodically on a communication channel that would otherwise time out and close due to inactivity.
- kovalevsky — Sonia [sohn-yuh] /ˈsoʊn yə/ (Show IPA), (Sofia Vasilievna Kovalevskaya) 1850–91, Russian mathematician.
- labiovelar — pronounced with simultaneous bilabial and velar articulations, as w.
- lacerative — Lacerating, or having the power to lacerate.
- lad's love — herb: wormwood
- lagerkvist — Pär [par] /pær/ (Show IPA), 1891–1974, Swedish novelist, poet, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1951.