9-letter words containing e, l, v
- festivals — Plural form of festival.
- festively — pertaining to or suitable for a feast or festival: festive decorations; a festive meal.
- fictively — In a fictive manner.
- fieldvole — a small rodent, Microtus agrestis
- five hole — the opening between a goaltender's parted legs.
- flashover — Electricity. a disruptive discharge around or over the surface of a solid or liquid insulator.
- flavanone — a chemical compound, C15H12O2, derived from flavone
- flavoured — Having a specific taste, often due to the addition of flavouring.
- flavourer — One who or that which flavours.
- flerovium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Fl; atomic number: 114.
- flevoland — a province of the central Netherlands, created in 1986 on land reclaimed from the IJsselmeer (formerly the Zuiderzee); entirely below sea level. Capital: Lelystad. Pop: 352 000 (2003 est). Area: 1420 sq km (548 sq miles)
- flip over — turn upside down
- fly river — a river in New Guinea, flowing SE from the central part to the Gulf of Papua, about 800 miles (1290 km) long.
- fly-drive — On a fly-drive holiday, you travel part of the way to your destination by aeroplane, and collect a hired car at the airport so that you can drive the rest of the way.
- flyleaves — Plural form of flyleaf.
- fog level — the density produced by the development of photographic materials that have not been exposed to light or other actinic radiation. It forms part of the characteristic curve of a particular material
- foveolate — having foveolae, or very small pits.
- free love — the doctrine or practice of having sexual relations or living together without legal marriage or continuing obligation.
- frivolent — (nonstandard) frivolous, trifling, silly.
- frivoller — Alt form frivoler.
- furtively — taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance.
- gällivare — a town in N Sweden, within the Arctic Circle: iron mines. Pop: 19 191 (2004 est)
- galvanise — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- galvanize — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- galveston — a seaport in SE Texas, on an island at the mouth of Galveston Bay.
- galvinize — Misspelling of galvanize.
- gavelkind — (originally) a tenure of land in which the tenant was liable for a rental in money or produce rather than for labor or military service.
- gavelling — Present participle of gavel.
- genitival — (in certain inflected languages) noting a case of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives, used primarily to express possession, measure, or origin: as John's hat, week's vacation, duty's call.
- gilravage — riotous festivity
- glen cove — a city on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
- glove box — glove compartment.
- go halves — plural of half.
- gonsalves — Paul, 1920–74, U.S. jazz saxophonist.
- governall — government
- granville — Earl of, Carteret, John.
- graveless — having no grave or graves
- gravelike — resembling a grave
- graveling — small stones and pebbles, or a mixture of these with sand.
- gravelled — Simple past tense and past participle of gravel.
- grenville — George, 1712–70, British statesman: prime minister 1763–65.
- grevillea — An evergreen tree or shrub bearing conspicuous flowers that lack petals, most kinds of which are native to Australia.
- groveless — having no groves
- groveling — to humble oneself or act in an abject manner, as in great fear or utter servility.
- grovelled — to humble oneself or act in an abject manner, as in great fear or utter servility.
- groveller — to humble oneself or act in an abject manner, as in great fear or utter servility.
- have legs — If an idea, plan, or activity has legs, it is likely to continue or succeed.
- haverhill — a city in NE Massachusetts, on the Merrimack River.
- heavy oil — a hydrocarbon mixture, heavier than water, distilled from coal tar
- heel over — When something heels over, it leans over very far as if it is about to fall over.