9-letter words containing a, t, v
- bivariate — (of a distribution) involving two random variables, not necessarily independent of one another
- blavatsky — Elena Petrovna (jɪˈljɛnə pɪˈtrɔvnə), called Madame Blavatsky. 1831–91, Russian theosophist; author of Isis Unveiled (1877)
- boa vista — a town in N Brazil, capital of the state of Roraima, on the Rio Branco. Pop: 275 000 (2005 est)
- calmative — (of a remedy or agent) sedative
- calvinist — Calvinist means belonging or relating to a strict Protestant church started by John Calvin.
- calvities — baldness
- captative — (linguistics) Describing a verb (in some languages) that has a specific ending or other marker to indicate a hunting or catching function.
- captivate — If you are captivated by someone or something, you find them fascinating and attractive.
- captively — In a captive manner.
- captivity — Captivity is the state of being kept imprisoned or enclosed.
- card vote — a vote by delegates, esp at a trade-union conference, in which each delegate's vote counts as a vote by all his or her constituents
- carve out — to make or create (a career)
- carve-out — to cut (a solid material) so as to form something: to carve a piece of pine.
- causative — Causative factors are ones which are responsible for causing something.
- cavaletti — bars supported on low stands used in dressage and horse jumping
- cavatelli — a shell-like pasta with ridged surfaces.
- cavatinas — Plural form of cavatina.
- caveators — a person who files or enters a caveat.
- cavitands — Plural form of cavitand.
- cavitated — Simple past tense and past participle of cavitate.
- cavorting — to prance or caper about.
- cervantes — Miguel de (miˈɣɛl ðe), full surname Cervantes Saavedra. 1547–1616, Spanish dramatist, poet, and prose writer, most famous for Don Quixote (1605), which satirizes the chivalric romances and greatly influenced the development of the novel
- cessative — (of a verbal form or aspect) expressing cessation.
- charvette — (Geordie, pejorative) A female charva.
- cheesevat — (in cheese making) a vat in which curds are formed and cut
- ci-devant — (esp of an office-holder) former; recent
- civet cat — any of several nocturnal, catlike carnivores (family Viverridae) of Africa, India, Malaysia, and S China, with spotted, yellowish fur: valued for its civet (sense 1)
- civitates — the body of citizens who constitute a state, especially a city-state, commonwealth, or the like.
- clavation — the state of being clavate
- coevality — The condition of being coeval.
- collative — involving collation
- combative — A person who is combative is aggressive and eager to fight or argue.
- concavity — the state or quality of being concave
- convocate — to summon or call together
- covariant — a variant that changes leaving interrelations with another variant (or variants) unchanged
- covariate — a statistical variable that changes in a predictable way and can be used to predict the outcome of a study
- covenants — Plural form of covenant.
- covetable — to desire wrongfully, inordinately, or without due regard for the rights of others: to covet another's property.
- creatives — Plural form of creative.
- cultivars — Plural form of cultivar.
- cultivate — If you cultivate land or crops, you prepare land and grow crops on it.
- curvation — the action of curving or bending
- curvative — (of leaves) having curved edges
- curvature — The curvature of something is its curved shape, especially when this shape is part of the circumference of a circle.
- cut above — to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
- d'avenant — Sir William, 1606–68, English dramatist and producer: poet laureate 1638–68.
- dataglove — a glove connected to a computer and equipped with sensors allowing the actual movements of a person's hand to manipulate virtual objects
- dataviews — Graphical user interface development software from V.I.Corporation, aimed at constructing platform-independent interactive views of dynamic data.
- davenport — a tall narrow desk with a slanted writing surface and drawers at the side
- degrative — (chemistry) of something causing a cell or organism to degrade.