9-letter words containing a, t, v
- animative — Tending to animate; causing animation.
- anovulant — any drug preventing ovulation
- antessive — (grammar) Indicating the spatial relation of preceding or being before something.
- anticivic — opposed to citizenship
- antinovel — a type of prose fiction in which conventional or traditional novelistic elements are rejected
- antivenin — an antitoxin that counteracts a specific venom, esp snake venom
- antivenom — a serum which acts against the effects of venom
- antiviral — inhibiting the growth of viruses
- antivirus — a piece of software designed to prevent viruses entering a computer system or network
- aperitive — aperient.
- aperitivo — aperitif (sense 2), esp. any of those produced in Italy
- archivist — An archivist is a person whose job is to collect, sort, and care for historical documents and records.
- archivolt — a moulding around an arch, sometimes decorated
- arrestive — tending to arrest
- arrive at — to reach by traveling
- arriviste — You describe someone as an arriviste when you are criticizing them because they are trying very hard to belong to an influential or important social group which you feel they have no right to belong to.
- artemovsk — a city in E Ukraine.
- artevelde — Jacob van1290?-1345; Fl. statesman
- assentive — having the tendency to concur or comply
- assertive — Someone who is assertive states their needs and opinions clearly, so that people take notice.
- assistive — providing a means of reducing a physical impairment
- assortive — to distribute, place, or arrange according to kind or class; classify; sort.
- at livery — being kept in a livery stable
- atavistic — Atavistic feelings or behaviour seem to be very primitive, like the feelings or behaviour of our earliest ancestors.
- attentive — If you are attentive, you are paying close attention to what is being said or done.
- attritive — Causing attrition.
- attuitive — characterized by attuition
- autoclave — a strong sealed vessel used for chemical reactions at high pressure
- availment — (obsolete) Profit; advantage.
- avalement — a skiing technique that involves keeping the knees flexible so as to absorb bumps and remain in contact with the snow
- aventaile — avantail
- aventurin — Alternative form of aventurine.
- averments — Plural form of averment.
- avertable — Preventable.
- avertedly — in an averted or offended manner
- avertible — Capable of being averted; preventable.
- aviatrice — a woman who is a pilot; aviator.
- avid fart — a flashy and intrusive visual effects editing style
- avigation — aerial navigation.
- avirulent — (esp of bacteria) not virulent
- avisement — the careful consideration or observation of something
- avocating — Present participle of avocate.
- avocation — Your avocation is a job or activity that you do because you are interested in it, rather than to earn your living.
- avolition — Lack of initiative or goals; one of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia. The person may wish to do something, but the desire is without power or energy.
- back vent — (in plumbing) a vent situated on the sewer side of a trap.
- beaverton — a town in NW Oregon.
- beta wave — any of the electrical waves from the parietal-frontal regions of the brain, having frequencies from 13 to 30 hertz: a sign of mental activity and alertness
- binervate — (of leaves) having two longitudinal ribs
- bioactive — (of a substance) having or producing an effect on living tissue
- bivalvate — having or consisting of two valves or similar parts