9-letter words containing i, n, v
- lavishing — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- lawgiving — Enacting laws; legislative.
- leavening — a substance, as yeast or baking powder, that causes fermentation and expansion of dough or batter.
- levantine — of or relating to the Levant.
- levanting — Present participle of levant.
- levelling — having no part higher than another; having a flat or even surface.
- leviathan — (often initial capital letter) Bible. a sea monster.
- levittown — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- live down — to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions: all things that live.
- liveryman — an owner of or an employee in a livery stable.
- liverymen — Plural form of liveryman.
- lividness — The state or condition of being livid (dark or pallid).
- livraison — one of the numbers of a book published in parts
- lochinvar — the hero of a ballad included in the narrative poem Marmion (1808) by Sir Walter Scott.
- long view — a city in NE Texas.
- longevity — a long individual life; great duration of individual life: Our family is known for its longevity.
- love vine — dodder2 .
- lovingest — extremely loving and affectionate.
- luneville — a city in NE France, W of Strasbourg: treaty between France and Austria 1801.
- main verb — a word used as the final verb in a verb phrase, expressing the lexical meaning of the verb phrase, as drink in I don't drink, going in I am going, or spoken in We have spoken.
- maldivian — a republic in the Indian Ocean, SW of India, consisting of about 2000 islands: British protectorate 1887–1965. 115 sq. mi. (298 sq. km). Capital: Male.
- marlovian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Christopher Marlowe or his writings, especially his plays.
- martin iv — (Simon de BrieorSimon de Brion) c1210–85, French ecclesiastic: pope 1281–85.
- marveling — something that causes wonder, admiration, or astonishment; a wonderful thing; a wonder or prodigy: The new bridge is an engineering marvel.
- mechnikov — Ilya Ilyich [ee-lyah ee-lyeech] /iˈlyɑ iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), Metchnikoff, Élie.
- menshevik — a member of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party in opposition to the Bolsheviks: advocated gradual development of full socialism through parliamentary government and cooperation with bourgeois parties; absorbed into the Communist party formed in 1918.
- midheaven — the point of a horoscope corresponding to the zenith: the cusp of the tenth house.
- misgiving — Often, misgivings. a feeling of doubt, distrust, or apprehension.
- misgovern — to govern or manage badly.
- misliving — Present participle of mislive.
- mismoving — Present participle of mismove.
- moldavian — of or relating to Moldavia, its people, or their language.
- montville — a town in SE Connecticut.
- mournival — a card game whose object is to gain a set of four aces, kings, queens, or knaves in one hand
- move into — take up residence in
- movieland — a place where many motion pictures are made, especially Hollywood, California.
- movietone — the earliest technique of including a soundtrack on film
- naiveness — having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of artificiality; unsophisticated; ingenuous.
- naiveties — Plural form of naivety.
- narrative — a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
- nashville — a state in the SE United States. 42,246 sq. mi. (109,415 sq. km). Capital: Nashville. Abbreviation: TN (for use with zip code), Tenn.
- nativists — Plural form of nativist.
- navaratri — an annual Hindu festival celebrated over nine days in September–October. Observed throughout India, it commemorates the slaying of demons by Rama and the goddess Durga; in some places it is dedicated to all female deities
- navel ill — joint ill.
- navicerts — Plural form of navicert.
- navicular — boat-shaped, as certain bones.
- navigable — deep and wide enough to provide passage to ships: a navigable channel.
- navigated — Simple past tense and past participle of navigate.
- navigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of navigate.
- navigator — Netscape Navigator