9-letter words containing i, l, e, t, v
- helvetius — Claude Adrien [klawd ey-dree-uh n;; French klohd a-dree-ahn] /klɔd ˈeɪ dri ən;; French kloʊd a driˈɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1715–71, French philosopher.
- illatives — Plural form of illative.
- illuviate — to undergo illuviation.
- in revolt — in the process or state of rebelling
- inflative — causing inflation; tending to inflate (something) or produce swelling
- insolvent — not solvent; unable to satisfy creditors or discharge liabilities, either because liabilities exceed assets or because of inability to pay debts as they mature.
- insultive — (rare,non-standard) Insulting.
- intervale — a low-lying tract of land along a river.
- intervals — Plural form of interval.
- inviolate — free from violation, injury, desecration, or outrage.
- involuted — intricate; complex.
- involutes — Plural form of involute.
- isolative — noting a change in part of the sound of a word made independently of the phonetic environment of that part.
- jive talk — black American slang
- lambative — (archaic) Taken by licking with the tongue.
- lambitive — a medicine that is taken by licking it with the tongue
- larvikite — a blue-grey syenite that contains feldspar crystals, often used as an ornamental facing on the walls of buildings
- laticlave — (in ancient Rome) a broad purple stripe on the tunic of a Roman senator or high-ranking official, denoting their high social position
- laudative — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
- laxatives — Plural form of laxative.
- leibovitz — Annie. born 1949, US photographer, known for her portraits of celebrities
- leitmotiv — Alternative form of leitmotif.
- let drive — to hit or aim
- levantine — of or relating to the Levant.
- levanting — Present participle of levant.
- leviathan — (often initial capital letter) Bible. a sea monster.
- levigated — Simple past tense and past participle of levigate.
- levigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of levigate.
- levitated — Simple past tense and past participle of levitate.
- 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.
- levittown — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- life vest — life jacket.
- lightwave — A wave of light.
- listservs — Plural form of listserv.
- live data — 1. Data that is written to be interpreted and takes over program flow when triggered by some un-obvious operation, such as viewing it. One use of such hacks is to break security. For example, some smart terminals have commands that allow one to download strings to program keys; this can be used to write live data that, when listed to the terminal, infects it with a security-breaking virus that is triggered the next time a hapless user strikes that key. For another, there are some well-known bugs in vi that allow certain texts to send arbitrary commands back to the machine when they are simply viewed. 2. In C, data that includes pointers to functions (executable code). 3. An object, such as a trampoline, that is constructed on the fly by a program and intended to be executed as code. 4. Actual real-world data, as opposed to "test data". For example, "I think I have the record deletion module finished." "Have you tried it out on live data?" This usage usually carries the connotation that live data is more fragile and must not be corrupted, or bad things will happen. So a more appropriate response to the above claim might be: "Well, make sure it works perfectly before we throw live data at it." The implication here is that record deletion is something pretty significant, and a haywire record-deletion module running amok on live data would probably cause great harm.
- live trap — a trap for capturing a wild animal alive and without injury.
- live with — to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions: all things that live.
- liveliest — full or suggestive of life or vital energy; active, vigorous, or brisk: a lively discussion.
- liver-rot — a disease chiefly of sheep and cattle, characterized by sluggishness, weight loss, and local damage to the liver, caused by infection from the liver fluke.
- liverwort — any mosslike plant of the class Hepaticae, growing chiefly on damp ground, rocks, or on tree trunks and helping the decay of logs and the disintegration of rocks.
- livestock — the horses, cattle, sheep, and other useful animals kept or raised on a farm or ranch.
- lixiviate — to treat with a solvent; leach.
- locatives — Plural form of locative.
- longevity — a long individual life; great duration of individual life: Our family is known for its longevity.
- louvertie — a female given name.
- love bite — A love bite is a mark which someone has on their body as a result of being bitten by their partner when they were kissing or making love.
- lovebites — Plural form of lovebite.
- loveliest — charmingly or exquisitely beautiful: a lovely flower.
- lovelight — A fond expression of love in a person's eyes.