9-letter words containing f, a, v
- flavourer — One who or that which flavours.
- 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)
- fluviatic — living or growing in streams
- flyleaves — Plural form of flyleaf.
- formative — giving form or shape; forming; shaping; fashioning; molding: a formative process in manufacturing.
- fortran v — Preliminary work on adding character handling to Fortran by IBM ca. 1962. This name as never really used.
- foveolate — having foveolae, or very small pits.
- fricative — (of a speech sound) characterized by audible friction produced by forcing the breath through a constricted or partially obstructed passage in the vocal tract; spirantal; spirant.
- furnivall — Frederick James, 1825–1910, English philologist and editor.
- half-oval — having the general form, shape, or outline of an egg; egg-shaped.
- hang five — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- haverford — a township in SE Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.
- hay fever — a type of allergic rhinitis affecting the mucous membranes of the eyes and respiratory tract, affecting susceptible persons usually during the summer, caused by pollen of ragweed and certain other plants.
- in favour — If you are in favour of something, you support it and think that it is a good thing.
- inflative — causing inflation; tending to inflate (something) or produce swelling
- larviform — (zoology) Having the form or structure of a larva.
- lava flow — liquid or solidified lava which has erupted from a volcano onto the Earth's surface
- leave off — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
- lifesaver — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- liverleaf — hepatica.
- lovecraft — H(oward) P(hillips) 1890–1937, U.S. horror-story writer.
- olfactive — Of or pertaining to the sense of smell; olfactory.
- ovaliform — Shaped like an egg; having a figure such that any section in the direction of the shorter diameter will be circular, and any in the direction of the longer diameter will be oval.
- overdraft — an act or instance of overdrawing a checking account.
- overfalls — Oceanography. water made rough by a strong current moving over a shoal, by an opposing current, or by winds blowing against the current.
- overfrank — too frank
- overstaff — to provide an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- save face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- stave off — one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel.
- take five — a cardinal number, four plus one.
- unfavored — regarded or treated with preference or partiality: Her beauty made her the favored child.
- van fleet — James Alward [al-werd] /ˈæl wərd/ (Show IPA), 1892–1992, U.S. army general.
- vaporific — producing vapor; tending to form vapor.
- varifocal — having a focus that can vary
- veal calf — a calf, esp one bred for eating
- ventifact — a pebble or cobble that has been faceted, grooved, and polished by the erosive action of wind-driven sand.
- vine leaf — leaf of a climbing plant
- 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.
- vouchsafe — to grant or give, as by favor, graciousness, or condescension: to vouchsafe a reply to a question.
- war fever — widespread enthusiasm for going to war
- wave farm — facility that generates power from the tides
- wave-form — the shape of a wave, a graph obtained by plotting the instantaneous values of a periodic quantity against the time.
- waveforms — Plural form of waveform.
- wavefront — a surface, real or imaginary, that is the locus of all adjacent points at which the phase of oscillation is the same.