9-letter words containing e, l, v
- belvedere — a building, such as a summerhouse or roofed gallery, sited to command a fine view
- belvidere — a city in N Illinois.
- bev curls — long locks of hair, considered to be typical of a certain kind of unfashionable male
- bevelling — the inclination that one line or surface makes with another when not at right angles.
- bevelment — the process of bevelling
- bienville — Sieur de(born Jean Baptiste Le Moyne) 1680-1768; Fr. colonizer & governor of Louisiana: founder of New Orleans
- bivalence — the semantic principle that there are exactly two truth values, so that every meaningful statement is either true or false
- bivalency — Chemistry. having a valence of two. having two valences, as aluminum with valences of two and three.
- bivalvate — having or consisting of two valves or similar parts
- bivoltine — producing two broods in one year, as certain silkworm moths.
- bloc-vote — to vote in or as a bloc: Party conservatives can be counted on to bloc-vote.
- blow over — If something such as trouble or an argument blows over, it ends without any serious consequences.
- boil over — When a liquid that is being heated boils over, it rises and flows over the edge of the container.
- boil-over — an unexpected result.
- bolshevik — Bolshevik is used to describe the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
- bondslave — a person held in bondage.
- booklover — a person who enjoys reading books.
- boulevard — A boulevard is a wide street in a city, usually with trees along each side.
- bowl over — To bowl someone over means to push into them and make them fall to the ground.
- by halves — without being thorough or exhaustive
- calavance — any of several varieties of pulse yielded by plants of the genus Dolichos
- calf love — temporary infatuation or love of an adolescent for a member of the opposite sex
- call-over — a preliminary hearing
- calmative — (of a remedy or agent) sedative
- calvaries — Plural form of calvary.
- calvities — baldness
- canaveral — Capecape on the E coast of Fla.: U.S. proving ground for missiles and spacecraft
- captively — In a captive manner.
- cavalcade — A cavalcade is a procession of people on horses or in cars or carriages.
- cavaletti — bars supported on low stands used in dressage and horse jumping
- cavalieri — Francesco Bonaventura [frahn-ches-kaw baw-nah-ven-too-rah] /frɑnˈtʃɛs kɔ ˌbɔ nɑ vɛnˈtu rɑ/ (Show IPA), 1598–1697, Italian mathematician.
- cavaliers — Plural form of cavalier.
- cavalries — Plural form of cavalry.
- cavatelli — a shell-like pasta with ridged surfaces.
- champleve — of or relating to a process of enamelling by which grooves are cut into a metal base and filled with enamel colours
- charles v — known as Charles the Wise. 1337–80, king of France (1364–80) during the Hundred Years' War
- chevalier — a member of certain orders of merit, such as the French Legion of Honour
- chevelure — the hazy or misty luminescence encircling a comet or star
- chevronel — a narrow chevron, one-half the usual breadth or less.
- civetlike — resembling a civet
- civilised — to bring out of a savage, uneducated, or rude state; make civil; elevate in social and private life; enlighten; refine: Rome civilized the barbarians.
- civiliser — Alternative form of civilizer.
- civilises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of civilise.
- civilized — If you describe a society as civilized, you mean that it is advanced and has sensible laws and customs.
- civilizer — to bring out of a savage, uneducated, or rude state; make civil; elevate in social and private life; enlighten; refine: Rome civilized the barbarians.
- civilizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of civilize.
- civilness — of, relating to, or consisting of citizens: civil life; civil society.
- clavering — Present participle of claver.
- clavicles — Plural form of clavicle.
- cleavable — capable of being cleft or split.