9-letter words containing a, n, i, v, e
- novitiate — the state or period of being a novice of a religious order or congregation.
- novocaine — Procaine.
- opinative — Conjectural; expressing an opinion rather than a fact.
- overawing — Present participle of overawe.
- overgrain — to apply a grainy texture to
- overpaint — to cover over with paint
- overstain — to stain too much
- overtrain — to train excessively
- parvoline — any of various isomeric ptomaines found in liquid derived from decaying animal matter or bituminous coals
- pervading — omnipresent; felt everywhere
- pervasion — to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.
- plaintive — expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful: a plaintive melody.
- plainview — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- plan view — plan (def 4).
- pulvinate — having the shape of a cushion; resembling a cushion; cushion-shaped.
- quavering — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
- ravelling — to disentangle or unravel the threads or fibers of (a woven or knitted fabric, rope, etc.).
- ravenings — rapacious behaviour and activities
- ravenlike — resembling a raven
- revamping — to renovate, redo, or revise: We've decided to revamp the entire show.
- revarnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
- revealing — to make known; disclose; divulge: to reveal a secret.
- riverbank — the slopes bordering a river.
- rovaniemi — a city in N Finland, near the Arctic Circle.
- salvemini — Gaetano [gah-e-tah-naw] /ˌgɑ ɛˈtɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1957, Italian historian in the U.S.
- savviness — experienced, knowledgable, and well-informed; shrewd (often used in combination): consumers who are savvy about prices; a tech-savvy entrepreneur.
- schiavone — the Italian name for a 17th century basket-hilted sword with a double edge
- shaveling — Older Use: Disparaging. a clergyman with a shaven or tonsured head.
- sine wave — a periodic oscillation, as simple harmonic motion, having the same geometric representation as a sine function.
- 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
- spin wave — a magnetic wave propagated through a crystal lattice by a collective excitation of the spin angular momentum of electrons.
- stavudine — an antiviral drug used to treat HIV infections
- subniveal — beneath the snow
- swan dive — into water
- swan-dive — to perform a swan dive.
- 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.
- tara vine — a leafy, woody vine, Actinidia arguta, of Japan and eastern Asia, having white flowers and yellowish, sweet, edible fruit.
- tentative — of the nature of or made or done as a trial, experiment, or attempt; experimental: a tentative report on her findings.
- traveling — activity: journeying
- trivalent — Chemistry. having a valence of three.
- unabusive — using, containing, or characterized by harshly or coarsely insulting language: an abusive author; abusive remarks.
- unadvised — without advice or counsel; uninformed: a defendant unadvised of her legal rights.
- unarrived — to come to a certain point in the course of travel; reach one's destination: He finally arrived in Rome.
- unavailed — to be of use or value to; profit; advantage: All our efforts availed us little in trying to effect a change.
- unavoided — not avoided or evaded
- unevasive — tending or seeking to evade; characterized by evasion: an evasive answer.
- univalent — Chemistry. having a valence of one; monovalent.
- univalves — having one valve.