10-letter words containing a, v, i
- advertises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advertise.
- advertized — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
- advertizer — One who advertizes.
- advisatory — advisory
- adviseable — Alternative spelling of advisable.
- advisement — consultation; deliberation
- advisorate — an advisory body or group
- advisories — Plural form of advisory.
- advocacies — the act of pleading for, supporting, or recommending; active espousal: He was known for his advocacy of states' rights.
- advocating — to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly: He advocated higher salaries for teachers.
- advocation — the transfer to itself by a superior court of an action pending in a lower court
- advocative — characterized by advocating
- aestivates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aestivate.
- affidavits — Plural form of affidavit.
- affinitive — characterized by affinity; closely related or associated.
- afflictive — causing pain or misery
- affrontive — characterized by a propensity to cause offence
- afterlives — Plural form of afterlife.
- aggressive — An aggressive person or animal has a quality of anger and determination that makes them ready to attack other people.
- aggrieving — Present participle of aggrieve.
- aids virus — a variable retrovirus that invades and inactivates helper T cells of the immune system and is a cause of AIDS and AIDS-related complex: variants were identified in several laboratories and independently named lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV) human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 3 (HTLV-3) and AIDS-related virus (ARV) the name human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) being subsequently proposed by an international taxonomy committee.
- air travel — transportation in aircraft
- airbrasive — a method of removing deposits from the teeth, or rarely, of preparing teeth for filling, by wearing down the surface with an abrasive substance blown by a jet of air
- alfonso vi — died 1109, king of Léon (1065–1109) and of Castile (1072–1109). He appointed his vassal, the Spanish hero El Cid, ruler of Valencia
- alienative — the state of being alienated, withdrawn, or isolated from the objective world, as through indifference or disaffection: the group's alienation from mainstream society.
- alive with — teeming with; full of (living or moving things)
- alleviated — to make easier to endure; lessen; mitigate: to alleviate sorrow; to alleviate pain.
- alleviates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alleviate.
- alleviator — a person or thing that alleviates.
- allocative — the act of allocating; apportionment.
- allusively — having reference to something implied or inferred; containing, abounding in, or characterized by allusions.
- almoravide — a member of a fanatical people of Berber origin and Islamic faith, who founded an empire in N Africa that spread over much of Spain in the 11th century ad
- almsgiving — the making of charitable donations, giving alms
- alphavirus — Any virus of the genus Alphavirus (family Togaviridae).
- alta vista — (web) A website provided by Digital which features a very fast Web and Usenet search engine. As of April 1996 its word index is 33GB in size. AltaVista is currently (June 1996) the largest Web index, with 30 million pages from 225,000 servers, and three million articles from 14,000 Usenet news groups. It is accessed over 12 million times per weekday.
- alterative — likely or able to produce alteration
- alveolitis — an inflammation of the alveoli, occurring either in the lungs or in the socket of a tooth
- alvin york — a member of the royal house of England that ruled from 1461 to 1485.
- ambilevous — (rare) Having equally bad ability in both hands; clumsy; butterfingered.
- ambivalent — If you say that someone is ambivalent about something, they seem to be uncertain whether they really want it, or whether they really approve of it.
- ampliative — serving to extend or add to what is already known
- amritattva — a state of immortality or deathlessness
- animadvert — to comment with strong criticism (upon); make censorious remarks (about)
- annotative — to supply with critical or explanatory notes; comment upon in notes: to annotate the works of Shakespeare.
- anti-virus — Anti-virus software is software that protects a computer against viruses.
- anticavity — designed to prevent the occurrence of cavities in teeth: an anticavity toothpaste.
- anticivism — opposition to citizenship
- antinovels — Plural form of antinovel.
- antivaxxer — a person who distrusts or is against vaccination, especially a parent who refuses to have a young child vaccinated.
- antivenene — Alternative spelling of anti-venene.