9-letter words containing a, v, e, n, t
- overtrain — to train excessively
- plaintive — expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful: a plaintive melody.
- prevalent — widespread; of wide extent or occurrence; in general use or acceptance.
- pulvinate — having the shape of a cushion; resembling a cushion; cushion-shaped.
- ravelment — entanglement; confusion.
- revalenta — a mixture of flour made from lentils and barley
- revertant — a gene, organism, or strain that has undergone a back mutation.
- servantry — servants collectively, esp the servants of a particular establishment as a body
- sexvalent — hexavalent or having a valency of six
- slave ant — an ant taken as a larva or pupa by ants of another species and becoming a working member of the captor colony.
- standover — practising or relating to acts of threatening, intimidating or extorting money from people by force
- stavanger — a seaport in SW Norway.
- stavudine — an antiviral drug used to treat HIV infections
- stevenage — a town in N Hertfordshire, in SE England.
- 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.
- tax haven — a foreign country or corporation used to avoid or reduce income taxes, especially by investors from another country.
- tentative — of the nature of or made or done as a trial, experiment, or attempt; experimental: a tentative report on her findings.
- tervalent — trivalent.
- the raven — a lyric poem (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe.
- transvest — to wear clothes traditionally associated with the opposite sex
- traveling — activity: journeying
- trevelyan — George Macaulay, 1876–1962, English historian.
- trivalent — Chemistry. having a valence of three.
- unaverted — to turn away or aside: to avert one's eyes.
- univalent — Chemistry. having a valence of one; monovalent.
- vaccinate — to inoculate with the vaccine of cowpox so as to render the subject immune to smallpox.
- valentine — Saint, died a.d. c270, Christian martyr at Rome.
- valentino — Rudolph (Rodolpho d'Antonguolla) 1895–1926, U.S. motion-picture actor, born in Italy.
- van fleet — James Alward [al-werd] /ˈæl wərd/ (Show IPA), 1892–1992, U.S. army general.
- venerated — held in deep respect; revered
- venerator — to regard or treat with reverence; revere.
- veniality — able to be forgiven or pardoned; not seriously wrong, as a sin (opposed to mortal).
- ventifact — a pebble or cobble that has been faceted, grooved, and polished by the erosive action of wind-driven sand.
- ventilate — to provide (a room, mine, etc.) with fresh air in place of air that has been used or contaminated.
- ventrally — of or relating to the venter or belly; abdominal.
- veratrine — a white or grayish-white, slightly water-soluble, poisonous mixture of alkaloids obtained by extraction from the seeds of the sabadilla: formerly used in medicine as a counterirritant in the treatment of rheumatism and neuralgia.
- verminate — to become infested with vermin, especially parasitic vermin.
- vernality — the quality or state of being vernal
- vernation — the arrangement of the foliage leaves within the bud.
- vestryman — a member of a church vestry.
- vide ante — (used to direct a reader to a specified place in a text) see before
- vientiane — a country in SE Asia: formerly part of French Indochina. 91,500 sq. mi. (236,985 sq. km). Capital: Vientiane.
- vigilante — a member of a vigilance committee.
- vindicate — to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
- vitalness — the quality of being vital
- vitamin e — a pale-yellow viscous fluid, abundant in vegetable oils, whole-grain cereals, butter, and eggs, and important as an antioxidant in the deactivation of free radicals and in maintenance of the body's cell membranes: deficiency is rare.
- vitaphone — an early technique in commercial film-making in which the accompanying sound was produced by discs
- vivamente — in a lively manner
- vivianite — a secondary mineral, hydrous ferrous phosphate, Fe 3 (PO 4) 2 ⋅8H 2 O, occurring in the form of pale blue crystals or powder.