9-letter words containing a, n, i, v, e
- innovates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of innovate.
- intervale — a low-lying tract of land along a river.
- intervals — Plural form of interval.
- invacuate — To confine (people) to a closed area in an emergency situation.
- invadable — to enter forcefully as an enemy; go into with hostile intent: Germany invaded Poland in 1939.
- invalided — Simple past tense and past participle of invalid.
- invasible — (biology) Capable of being invaded by invasive species.
- inveraray — a town in W Scotland, in Argyll and Bute: Inveraray Castle is the seat of the Dukes of Argyll. Pop: about 700 (2001)
- invertase — an enzyme, occurring in yeast and in the digestive juices of animals, that causes the inversion of cane sugar into invert sugar.
- inviolate — free from violation, injury, desecration, or outrage.
- 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.
- invokable — (computing) That can be invoked; callable.
- inweaving — Present participle of inweave.
- javelinas — Plural form of javelina.
- jeevesian — of, relating to, or like the butler Jeeves, who was, in the fiction of P. G. Wodehouse, a master of tact, euphemism, and ingenuity
- juvenilia — (literature, plural only) Works produced during an artist's or author's youth.
- knaveship — a small proportion of milled grain that was due to the person who did the milling
- leavening — a substance, as yeast or baking powder, that causes fermentation and expansion of dough or batter.
- levantine — of or relating to the Levant.
- levanting — Present participle of levant.
- leviathan — (often initial capital letter) Bible. a sea monster.
- liveryman — an owner of or an employee in a livery stable.
- main verb — a word used as the final verb in a verb phrase, expressing the lexical meaning of the verb phrase, as drink in I don't drink, going in I am going, or spoken in We have spoken.
- marveling — something that causes wonder, admiration, or astonishment; a wonderful thing; a wonder or prodigy: The new bridge is an engineering marvel.
- midheaven — the point of a horoscope corresponding to the zenith: the cusp of the tenth house.
- movieland — a place where many motion pictures are made, especially Hollywood, California.
- naiveness — having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of artificiality; unsophisticated; ingenuous.
- naiveties — Plural form of naivety.
- narrative — a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
- nashville — a state in the SE United States. 42,246 sq. mi. (109,415 sq. km). Capital: Nashville. Abbreviation: TN (for use with zip code), Tenn.
- navel ill — joint ill.
- navicerts — Plural form of navicert.
- navigable — deep and wide enough to provide passage to ships: a navigable channel.
- navigated — Simple past tense and past participle of navigate.
- navigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of navigate.
- negatived — Simple past tense and past participle of negative.
- negatives — Plural form of negative.
- nervation — venation.
- 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.
- nikolayev — a city in S Ukraine, in the SW on the Bug River.
- nivernais — a former province in central France. Capital: Nevers.
- nonactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- nonnative — of or relating to a language that is not the first language acquired by a person: It is harder to communicate in your nonnative language.
- nonviable — not capable of living, growing, and developing, as an embryo, seed, or plant.
- normative — of or relating to a norm, especially an assumed norm regarded as the standard of correctness in behavior, speech, writing, etc.
- novaesium — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia west of Düsseldorf: founded as a Roman fortress in the 1st century ad. Pop: 152 050 (2003 est)
- novennial — Recurring every nine years.
- noviciate — The period during which you are a novice.