9-letter words containing a, t, v
- imitative — imitating; copying; given to imitation.
- impactive — caused by impact: impactive pain.
- incurvate — curved, especially inward.
- induviate — covered by induviae
- inflative — causing inflation; tending to inflate (something) or produce swelling
- innervate — to communicate nervous energy to; stimulate through nerves.
- innovated — to introduce something new; make changes in anything established.
- innovates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of innovate.
- innovator — to introduce something new; make changes in anything established.
- 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.
- invariant — unvarying; invariable; constant.
- 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.
- invocated — invoke.
- invocator — invoke.
- isolative — noting a change in part of the sound of a word made independently of the phonetic environment of that part.
- iterative — repeating; making repetition; repetitious.
- java jolt — the alert state of mind obtained after a drink of strong coffee
- jetavator — an extension of the exhaust nozzle of a rocket, for controlling the direction of the exhaust gases.
- jive talk — black American slang
- joviality — the state or quality of being jovial; merriment; jollity.
- kurchatov — Igor Vasilievich [ee-guh r-vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /ˈi gər vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–60, Soviet nuclear physicist.
- lactivist — a person, esp a woman, who advocates strongly the breast-feeding of children, and is opposed to bottle-feeding
- lambative — (archaic) Taken by licking with the tongue.
- lambitive — a medicine that is taken by licking it with the tongue
- larvikite — a blue-grey syenite that contains feldspar crystals, often used as an ornamental facing on the walls of buildings
- laticlave — (in ancient Rome) a broad purple stripe on the tunic of a Roman senator or high-ranking official, denoting their high social position
- laudative — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
- lavateras — Plural form of lavatera.
- lavations — Plural form of lavation.
- laxatives — Plural form of laxative.
- leave out — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
- levanters — Plural form of levanter.
- levantine — of or relating to the Levant.
- levanting — Present participle of levant.
- leviathan — (often initial capital letter) Bible. a sea monster.
- levigated — Simple past tense and past participle of levigate.
- levigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of levigate.
- levitated — Simple past tense and past participle of levitate.
- levitical — of or relating to the Levites.
- lightwave — A wave of light.
- live data — 1. Data that is written to be interpreted and takes over program flow when triggered by some un-obvious operation, such as viewing it. One use of such hacks is to break security. For example, some smart terminals have commands that allow one to download strings to program keys; this can be used to write live data that, when listed to the terminal, infects it with a security-breaking virus that is triggered the next time a hapless user strikes that key. For another, there are some well-known bugs in vi that allow certain texts to send arbitrary commands back to the machine when they are simply viewed. 2. In C, data that includes pointers to functions (executable code). 3. An object, such as a trampoline, that is constructed on the fly by a program and intended to be executed as code. 4. Actual real-world data, as opposed to "test data". For example, "I think I have the record deletion module finished." "Have you tried it out on live data?" This usage usually carries the connotation that live data is more fragile and must not be corrupted, or bad things will happen. So a more appropriate response to the above claim might be: "Well, make sure it works perfectly before we throw live data at it." The implication here is that record deletion is something pretty significant, and a haywire record-deletion module running amok on live data would probably cause great harm.
- live trap — a trap for capturing a wild animal alive and without injury.
- lixiviate — to treat with a solvent; leach.
- locatives — Plural form of locative.
- love seat — a small upholstered sofa for two people
- love-hate — characterized simultaneously by feelings of love and hate