9-letter words containing c, a, l, v
- 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
- cleavable — capable of being cleft or split.
- cleavaged — Having (a particular kind of) cleavage.
- cleavages — the act of cleaving or splitting.
- cleveland — a former county of NE England formed in 1974 from parts of E Durham and N Yorkshire; replaced in 1996 by the unitary authorities of Hartlepool (Durham), Stockton-on-Tees (Durham), Middlesbrough (North Yorkshire) and Redcar and Cleveland (North Yorkshire)
- coevality — The condition of being coeval.
- cold wave — a sudden spell of low temperatures over a wide area, often following the passage of a cold front
- 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.
- conclaves — A private meeting.
- convivial — Convivial people or occasions are pleasant, friendly, and relaxed.
- corivalry — joint or mutual rivalry
- corvallis — a city in W Oregon.
- covalence — the number of pairs of electrons that an atom can share with its neighboring atoms
- covalency — the formation and nature of covalent bonds
- coverable — Able to be covered.
- coveralls — Coveralls are a single piece of clothing that combines pants and a jacket. You wear coveralls over your clothes in order to protect them while you are working.
- coverdale — Miles. 1488–1568, the first translator of the complete Bible into English (1535)
- covetable — to desire wrongfully, inordinately, or without due regard for the rights of others: to covet another's property.
- craveable — (especially of a food) having qualities that engender an intense desire for more: All too often, salt, sugar, fat, and “crunch” make a food craveable.
- cravingly — With longing or craving.
- cultivars — Plural form of cultivar.
- cultivate — If you cultivate land or crops, you prepare land and grow crops on it.
- curveball — a ball pitched in a curving path so as to make it more difficult to hit
- divalence — the state of being divalent
- equivocal — Open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous.
- esclavage — A type of chain or bead necklace.
- evangelic — Evangelical.
- everclear — (chiefly, US, dated, humorous) Any home-brewed grain alcohol, especially one with a dangerously high (chemically unstable) concentration of pure alcohol.
- fluviatic — living or growing in streams
- helvetica — (text) One of the most widely used sans-serif typefaces, developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann. Originally called Neue Haas Grotesk, it was renamed Helvetica for the international market. Helvetica is very similar to the common Arial typeface. The name is Latin for Swiss.
- illiac iv — (computer) One of the most infamous supercomputers ever. It used early ideas on SIMD (single instruction stream, multiple data streams). The project started in 1965, it used 64 processors and a 13MHz clock. In 1976 it ran its first sucessfull application. It had 1MB memory (64x16KB). Its actual performance was 15 MFLOPS, it was estimated in initial predictions to be 1000 MFLOPS. It totally failed as a computer, only a quarter of the fully planned machine was ever built, costs escalated from the $8 million estimated in 1966 to $31 million by 1972, and the computer took three more years of enginering before it was operational. The only good it did was to push research forward a bit, leading way for machines such as the Thinking Machines CM-1 and CM-2.
- invocable — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
- lactivist — a person, esp a woman, who advocates strongly the breast-feeding of children, and is opposed to bottle-feeding
- larvacean — Any of various solitary, free-swimming tunicates of the class Larvacea.
- larvacide — Alternative spelling of larvicide.
- larvicide — an agent for killing larvae.
- laticlave — (in ancient Rome) a broad purple stripe on the tunic of a Roman senator or high-ranking official, denoting their high social position
- lay vicar — a member of a cathedral choir appointed to sing certain parts of the services
- levitical — of or relating to the Levites.
- locatives — Plural form of locative.
- lochinvar — the hero of a ballad included in the narrative poem Marmion (1808) by Sir Walter Scott.
- lovecraft — H(oward) P(hillips) 1890–1937, U.S. horror-story writer.
- lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- navicular — boat-shaped, as certain bones.
- obclavate — inversely clavate.
- olfactive — Of or pertaining to the sense of smell; olfactory.