9-letter words containing c, l, o, v
- 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.
- 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.
- lovecraft — H(oward) P(hillips) 1890–1937, U.S. horror-story writer.
- lovelocks — Plural form of lovelock.
- microvolt — a unit of electromotive force or potential difference equal to one millionth of a volt. Symbol: μV, μ v.
- 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.
- obclavate — inversely clavate.
- occlusive — occluding or tending to occlude.
- olfactive — Of or pertaining to the sense of smell; olfactory.
- over-cool — moderately cold; neither warm nor cold: a rather cool evening.
- overchill — to make too cold
- overcivil — too civil
- overclaim — to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
- overclass — a social stratum consisting of educated and wealthy people considered to control the economic power of a country.
- overclean — too clean
- overclear — too clear
- overclock — Computers. to modify (a hardware component, as a processor, graphics card, or memory) so as to increase the speed of that component beyond the specifications of the manufacturer: You can overclock your video card to improve its performance.
- overclose — to put (something) in a position to obstruct an entrance, opening, etc.; shut.
- overcloud — to overspread with or as if with clouds: a summer storm that briefly overclouds the sun; to overcloud one's pleasure with solemn thoughts.
- overcolor — (transitive) alternative spelling of overcolour.
- overscale — larger or more extensive than normal or usual; outsize; oversize.
- piacevole — (to be performed) in a pleasant, agreeable manner
- provencal — of or relating to Provence, its people, or their language.
- revocable — that may be revoked.
- revocably — that may be revoked.
- rockville — a city in central Maryland.
- rounceval — a variety of large pea
- semivocal — of or relating to a semivowel
- slavocrat — (in the US before the Civil War) a slaveholder, or an advocate of slavery
- slipcover — a cover of cloth or other material for a piece of furniture, as an upholstered chair or sofa, made so as to be easily removable.
- vacuolate — having a vacuole or vacuoles.
- varifocal — having a focus that can vary
- vectorial — Mathematics. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of which is proportional to the magnitude. Compare scalar (def 4). such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities obey the parallelogram law of addition. such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities are to transform in a particular way under changes of the coordinate system. any generalization of the above quantities.
- viciously — addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral; depraved; profligate: a vicious life.
- vicontiel — pertaining to the sheriff or viscount.
- virilocal — Anthropology. living with or located near the husband's father's group; patrilocal.
- viscously — of a glutinous nature or consistency; sticky; thick; adhesive.
- vitriolic — of, relating to, or resembling vitriol.
- vocabular — a vocabulary
- vocal fry — a voice quality characterized by a low pitch and raspy sound and produced by a slow fluttering of the vocal cords: There's too much vocal fry in her speaking voice.
- vocal sac — either of the loose folds of skin on each side of the mouth in many male frogs that can be inflated and act as resonators
- vocalised — to make vocal; utter; articulate; sing.
- vocalness — of, relating to, or uttered with the voice: the vocal mechanism; vocal criticism.
- voiceless — having no voice; mute.
- voicemail — an electronic system enabling the recording and storage of (usually digitized) voice messages, which can subsequently be retrieved by the intended recipient.