9-letter words containing a, t, v
- expiative — That serves to expiate.
- extravert — Alternative spelling of extrovert.
- exudative — (pathology) Of, pertaining to, or accompanied by exudation.
- factitive — noting or pertaining to verbs that express the idea of making or rendering in a certain way and that take a direct object and an additional word or group of words indicating the result of the process, as made in They made him king.
- factivity — (of a verb, adjective, or noun phrase) presupposing the truth of an embedded sentence that serves as complement, as realize in I didn't realize that he had left, which presupposes that it is true that he had left.
- fan vault — a vault composed of a number of concave conoidal surfaces, usually four, springing from the corners of the vaulting compartment and touching or intersecting at the top, often decorated with ribs.
- faveolate — honeycombed; alveolate; pitted.
- favorites — a person or thing regarded with special favor or preference: That song is an old favorite of mine.
- favourite — a person or thing regarded with special favor or preference: That song is an old favorite of mine.
- festivals — Plural form of festival.
- fitzrovia — the district north of Oxford Street, London, around Fitzroy Square and its pubs, noted in the 1930s and 40s as a haunt of poets
- five-star — having five stars to indicate rank or quality: a five-star general; a five-star brandy.
- fixatives — Plural form of fixative.
- flavorist — a person whose job is to blend natural and artificial ingredients to create the taste and smell of a specific food.
- fluviatic — living or growing in streams
- formative — giving form or shape; forming; shaping; fashioning; molding: a formative process in manufacturing.
- fortran v — Preliminary work on adding character handling to Fortran by IBM ca. 1962. This name as never really used.
- foveolate — having foveolae, or very small pits.
- fricative — (of a speech sound) characterized by audible friction produced by forcing the breath through a constricted or partially obstructed passage in the vocal tract; spirantal; spirant.
- gallivant — to wander about, seeking pleasure or diversion; gad.
- galvanist — a person who studies or practises galvanism
- galveston — a seaport in SE Texas, on an island at the mouth of Galveston Bay.
- gas stove — a stove that uses natural gas as a fuel source
- gemmative — relating to gemmation
- genitival — (in certain inflected languages) noting a case of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives, used primarily to express possession, measure, or origin: as John's hat, week's vacation, duty's call.
- go native — being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one's native land.
- gravesite — the site of a grave or graves; a place of burial.
- gravidity — pregnant1 (def 1).
- gravitate — to move or tend to move under the influence of gravitational force.
- gravities — Plural form of gravity.
- gravitino — the hypothetical fermionic partner of the graviton, predicted by the supergravity extension of Einstein's theory of general relativity.
- gravitons — Plural form of graviton.
- grievants — Plural form of grievant.
- grivation — grid variation.
- guevarist — a supporter of the revolutionary theories and tactics of Ernesto Guevara.
- gustative — gustatory.
- harvest c — A C compiler, assembler and linker for the Macintosh by Eric W. Sink. The parts of the system are integrated in a single application, which manages a "project" composed by several C source files and resource files (which contain data). Version 1.3.
- harvested — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- harvester — a person who harvests; reaper.
- hauterive — a town in SE Quebec, in E Canada.
- have-nots — people who are very poor
- heat wave — an air mass of high temperature covering an extended area and moving relatively slowly.
- heatwaves — Plural form of heatwave.
- heavy-set — Someone who is heavy-set has a large solid body.
- helvetian — of or relating to Helvetia or the Helvetii.
- helvetica — (text) One of the most widely used sans-serif typefaces, developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann. Originally called Neue Haas Grotesk, it was renamed Helvetica for the international market. Helvetica is very similar to the common Arial typeface. The name is Latin for Swiss.
- hortative — hortatory.
- i have it — I know the answer
- illatives — Plural form of illative.
- illuviate — to undergo illuviation.