9-letter words containing a, v, i
- civil day — day (def 3c).
- civil law — Civil law is the part of a country's set of laws which is concerned with the private affairs of citizens, for example marriage and property ownership, rather than with crime.
- civil war — A civil war is a war which is fought between different groups of people who live in the same country.
- civilians — Plural form of civilian.
- civitates — the body of citizens who constitute a state, especially a city-state, commonwealth, or the like.
- clavation — the state of being clavate
- clavering — Present participle of claver.
- clavicles — Plural form of clavicle.
- clavicorn — any beetle of the group Clavicornia, including the ladybirds, characterized by club-shaped antennae
- clavicula — the clavicle
- claviform — clavate
- coevality — The condition of being coeval.
- collative — involving collation
- colluvial — loose earth material that has accumulated at the base of a hill, through the action of gravity, as piles of talus, avalanche debris, and sheets of detritus moved by soil creep or frost action.
- combative — A person who is combative is aggressive and eager to fight or argue.
- concaving — curved like a segment of the interior of a circle or hollow sphere; hollow and curved. Compare convex (def 1).
- concavity — the state or quality of being concave
- conrad iv — 1228–54, king of Germany 1237–54 and Sicily 1251–54; uncrowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (son of Frederick II).
- convivial — Convivial people or occasions are pleasant, friendly, and relaxed.
- corivalry — joint or mutual rivalry
- corrasive — Obsolete form of corrosive.
- corvallis — a city in W Oregon.
- 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
- craigavon — a district in central Northern Ireland, in Co Armagh. Pop: 57 685 (2001). Area: 279 sq km (108 sq miles)
- cravening — Present participle of craven.
- cravingly — With longing or craving.
- creatives — Plural form of creative.
- crimewave — a period of increased criminal activity
- 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
- dan river — a river in S Virginia and N North Carolina, flowing S and E to the Roanoke River. 180 miles (290 km) long.
- daredevil — Daredevil people enjoy doing physically dangerous things.
- dataviews — Graphical user interface development software from V.I.Corporation, aimed at constructing platform-independent interactive views of dynamic data.
- davis cup — an annual international lawn tennis championship for men's teams
- de valois — Dame Ninette (niːˈnɛt). original name Edris Stannus. 1898–2001, British ballet dancer and choreographer, born in Ireland: a founder of the Vic-Wells Ballet Company (1931), which under her direction became the Royal Ballet (1956)
- deauville — a town and resort in NW France: casino. Pop: 3968 (2008)
- degrative — (chemistry) of something causing a cell or organism to degrade.
- delavigne — (Jean François) Casiˈmir (kaziˈmɪʀ) ; kȧzēmirˈ) 1793-1843; Fr. poet & playwright
- depraving — Present participle of deprave.
- depravity — Depravity is very dishonest or immoral behaviour.
- derivable — to receive or obtain from a source or origin (usually followed by from).
- derivably — in a way that is able to be derived
- derivated — Simple past tense and past participle of derivate.
- derivates — Plural form of derivate.
- derzhavin — Gavril Romanovich [gah-vril roh-mah-nuh-vich;; Russian guh-vryil ruh-mah-nuh-vyich] /gɑˈvrɪl roʊˈmɑ nə vɪtʃ;; Russian gəˈvryɪl rəˈmɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1743–1816, Russian poet.
- devadasis — Plural form of devadasi.
- devaluing — to deprive of value; reduce the value of.