9-letter words containing c, i, v, l
- colectivo — a small public bus.
- collative — involving collation
- collisive — (obsolete) Colliding; clashing.
- collusive — Collusive behaviour involves secret or illegal co-operation, especially between countries or organizations.
- 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.
- colluvies — a collection of filth or discharge
- colluvium — a mixture of rock fragments from the bases of cliffs
- convivial — Convivial people or occasions are pleasant, friendly, and relaxed.
- corivalry — joint or mutual rivalry
- corvallis — a city in W Oregon.
- costively — In a costive manner.
- covellite — an indigo-blue copper sulphide ore, often referred to as blue copper or indigo copper
- coverslip — a very thin piece of glass placed over a specimen on a glass slide that is to be examined under a microscope
- 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.
- culverins — Plural form of culverin.
- cursively — In a cursive manner.
- declivity — a downward slope, esp of the ground
- declivous — having a declining slope or gradient
- deviceful — full of devices; inventive; cunning
- divalence — the state of being divalent
- electives — Plural form of elective.
- equivocal — Open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous.
- evangelic — Evangelical.
- evincible — Capable of being proved or clearly brought to light; demonstrable.
- evincibly — in an evincible manner
- exclusive — An item or story published or broadcast by only one source.
- fictively — In a fictive manner.
- 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.
- in clover — any of various plants of the genus Trifolium, of the legume family, having trifoliolate leaves and dense flower heads, many species of which, as T. pratense, are cultivated as forage plants.
- inclusive — including or encompassing the stated limit or extremes in consideration or account (usually used postpositively): from 6 to 37 inclusive.
- invocable — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
- involucel — a secondary involucre, as in a compound cluster of flowers.
- involucre — Botany. a collection or rosette of bracts subtending a flower cluster, umbel, or the like.
- lactivist — a person, esp a woman, who advocates strongly the breast-feeding of children, and is opposed to bottle-feeding
- 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.
- leviticus — the third book of the Bible, containing laws relating to the priests and Levites and to the forms of Jewish ceremonial observance. Abbreviation: Lev.
- livestock — the horses, cattle, sheep, and other useful animals kept or raised on a farm or ranch.
- locatives — Plural form of locative.
- lochinvar — the hero of a ballad included in the narrative poem Marmion (1808) by Sir Walter Scott.
- lovechild — A child born to parents who aren't married to one another.
- lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- microvolt — a unit of electromotive force or potential difference equal to one millionth of a volt. Symbol: μV, μ v.