9-letter words containing b, i, v, a
- embracive — (archaic) Disposed to embrace; fond of caressing.
- give back — return: sth to sb
- give-back — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
- givebacks — Plural form of giveback.
- herbivora — grass-eating animals collectively
- immovable — incapable of being moved; fixed; stationary.
- immovably — incapable of being moved; fixed; stationary.
- invadable — to enter forcefully as an enemy; go into with hostile intent: Germany invaded Poland in 1939.
- invasible — (biology) Capable of being invaded by invasive species.
- invocable — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
- invokable — (computing) That can be invoked; callable.
- kirovabad — a city in NW Azerbaijan.
- lambative — (archaic) Taken by licking with the tongue.
- lambitive — a medicine that is taken by licking it with the tongue
- levigable — capable of being levigated or ground into a fine powder
- main verb — a word used as the final verb in a verb phrase, expressing the lexical meaning of the verb phrase, as drink in I don't drink, going in I am going, or spoken in We have spoken.
- misbehave — to behave badly or improperly: The children misbehaved during our visit.
- navigable — deep and wide enough to provide passage to ships: a navigable channel.
- nonviable — not capable of living, growing, and developing, as an embryo, seed, or plant.
- obliviate — To forget, to wipe from existence.
- obviating — Present participle of obviate.
- obviation — to anticipate and prevent or eliminate (difficulties, disadvantages, etc.) by effective measures; render unnecessary: to obviate the risk of serious injury.
- obviative — Describing such a marker.
- ovalbumin — the principal protein of egg white.
- pivotable — capable of turning on or as if on a pivot
- previable — occurring before a fetus has developed enough to survive outside the uterus
- probative — serving or designed for testing or trial.
- revibrate — to vibrate again
- revisable — to amend or alter: to revise one's opinion.
- revivable — to activate, set in motion, or take up again; renew: to revive old feuds.
- rib vault — a vault supported by or decorated with diagonal ribs.
- ribavirin — a synthetic compound, C 8 H 1 2 N 4 O 5 , active against several DNA and RNA viruses.
- rio bravo — Mexican name of Rio Grande (def 1).
- riverbank — the slopes bordering a river.
- riverboat — any shallow-draft boat used on rivers.
- subcavity — a cavity within a larger cavity
- subniveal — beneath the snow
- unabusive — using, containing, or characterized by harshly or coarsely insulting language: an abusive author; abusive remarks.
- unlivable — suitable for living in; habitable; comfortable: It took a lot of work to make the old house livable.
- urban vii — (Giovanni Battista Castagna) 1521–90, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1590.
- veblenian — of, relating to, or suggesting the theories of Thorstein Veblen.
- verbalise — to express in words: He couldn't verbalize his feelings.
- verbalism — a verbal expression, as a word or phrase.
- verbalist — a person skilled in the use of words.
- verbality — wordiness; verbal diffuseness: a speech full of tedious verbality.
- verbalize — to express in words: He couldn't verbalize his feelings.
- verbarian — an inventor of words
- verbiages — overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; wordiness; verbosity.
- veritable — being truly or very much so: a veritable triumph.
- veritably — being truly or very much so: a veritable triumph.