9-letter words containing c, i, v
- humective — tending to moisten
- 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.
- impactive — caused by impact: impactive pain.
- 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.
- incendive — Able to ignite, or cause ignition.
- incensive — Tending to excite or provoke; inflammatory.
- incentive — something that incites or tends to incite to action or greater effort, as a reward offered for increased productivity.
- inceptive — beginning; initial.
- inclusive — including or encompassing the stated limit or extremes in consideration or account (usually used postpositively): from 6 to 37 inclusive.
- incursive — making incursions.
- incurvate — curved, especially inward.
- incurving — Present participle of incurve.
- incurvity — the quality of having inward curvature
- indictive — Proclaimed; declared; public.
- inductive — of, relating to, or involving electrical induction or magnetic induction.
- infective — infectious.
- ingveonic — of or relating to Old English, Old Frisian, and Old Saxon, taken collectively.
- injective — (mathematics) Of, relating to, or being an injection: such that each element of the image (or range) is associated with at most one element of the preimage (or domain); inverse-deterministic.
- inservice — taking place while one is employed: an in-service training program.
- invacuate — To confine (people) to a closed area in an emergency situation.
- invection — (obsolete) An inveighing against; invective.
- invective — vehement or violent denunciation, censure, or reproach.
- inviscate — To daub or catch with glue or birdlime; to entangle with glutinous matter.
- invocable — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
- invocated — invoke.
- invocator — invoke.
- invoicing — an itemized bill for goods sold or services provided, containing individual prices, the total charge, and the terms.
- 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.
- kick over — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- kvetching — Present participle of kvetch.
- 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.
- markevich — Igor [ee-guh r] /ˈi gər/ (Show IPA), 1912–83, Russian conductor and composer.
- mavericks — Plural form of maverick.
- mechnikov — Ilya Ilyich [ee-lyah ee-lyeech] /iˈlyɑ iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), Metchnikoff, Élie.
- mestrovic — Ivan [ahy-vuh n Serbo-Croatian. ee-vahn] /ˈaɪ vən Serbo-Croatian. ˈi vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1883–1962, Yugoslav sculptor, in the U.S. after 1946.
- microvolt — a unit of electromotive force or potential difference equal to one millionth of a volt. Symbol: μV, μ v.
- microwave — an electromagnetic wave of extremely high frequency, 1 GH 3 or more, and having wavelengths of from 1 mm to 30 cm.
- milosevic — Slobodan [sloh-buh-dain] /ˈsloʊ bəˌdɛən/ (Show IPA), 1941–2006, Yugoslav and Serbian politician: president of Serbia 1989–97, president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1997–2000, accused of war crimes 2001.