9-letter words containing i, n, v
- believing — to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so: Only if one believes in something can one act purposefully.
- ben nevis — a mountain in W Scotland, in the Grampian mountains: highest peak in Great Britain. Height: 1345 m (4413 ft)
- bereaving — to deprive and make desolate, especially by death (usually followed by of): Illness bereaved them of their mother.
- bevelling — the inclination that one line or surface makes with another when not at right angles.
- bevin boy — (in Britain during World War II) a young man selected by ballot to work in a coal mine instead of doing conventional military service
- biconcave — (of a lens) having concave faces on both sides; concavo-concave
- bienvenue — a welcome
- bienville — Sieur de(born Jean Baptiste Le Moyne) 1680-1768; Fr. colonizer & governor of Louisiana: founder of New Orleans
- bind over — If someone is bound over by a court or a judge, they are given an order and must do as the order says for a particular period of time.
- binervate — (of leaves) having two longitudinal ribs
- binovular — relating to or derived from two different ova
- 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.
- bivoltine — producing two broods in one year, as certain silkworm moths.
- boliviano — (until 1963 and from 1987) the standard monetary unit of Bolivia, equal to 100 centavos
- botvinnik — Mikhail Moiseivich (mixaˈil məiˈsjejɪvitʃ). 1911–95, Soviet chess player; world champion (1948–57, 1958–60, 1961–63)
- brainwave — If you have a brainwave, you suddenly have a clever idea.
- calvarian — calvarial
- calvinism — the theological system of John Calvin and his followers, characterized by emphasis on the doctrines of predestination, the irresistibility of grace, and justification by faith
- calvinist — Calvinist means belonging or relating to a strict Protestant church started by John Calvin.
- canvasing — Present participle of canvas.
- carnivals — Plural form of carnival.
- carnivora — carnivorous animals collectively
- carnivore — A carnivore is an animal that eats meat.
- carnivory — the eating of animal flesh
- cavallini — Pietro (ˈpjɛːtro). ?1250–?1330, Italian fresco painter and mosaicist. His works include the mosaics of the Life of the Virgin in Santa Maria, Trastevere, Rome
- cavatinas — Plural form of cavatina.
- cavendish — tobacco that has been sweetened and pressed into moulds to form bars
- cavilling — to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily (usually followed by at or about): He finds something to cavil at in everything I say.
- cavitands — Plural form of cavitand.
- cavorting — to prance or caper about.
- centumvir — one of a body of judges responsible for presiding over civil court cases
- chernigov — a city in N central Ukraine, on the River Desna: tyres, pianos, consumer goods. Pop: 308 000 (2005 est)
- chevening — a mansion and estate in SE England, in western Kent: the official country residence of the British foreign secretary
- chinovnik — an office-holder or bureaucrat serving in the Tsarist Russian government
- chivvying — Present participle of chivvy.
- ci-devant — (esp of an office-holder) former; recent
- civilians — Plural form of civilian.
- civilness — of, relating to, or consisting of citizens: civil life; civil society.
- clavation — the state of being clavate
- clavering — Present participle of claver.
- clavicorn — any beetle of the group Clavicornia, including the ladybirds, characterized by club-shaped antennae
- cognitive — Cognitive means relating to the mental process involved in knowing, learning, and understanding things.
- cognovits — Law. an acknowledgment or confession by a defendant that the plaintiff's cause, or part of it, is just, wherefore the defendant, to save expense, permits judgment to be entered without trial.
- commoving — Present participle of commove.
- concaving — curved like a segment of the interior of a circle or hollow sphere; hollow and curved. Compare convex (def 1).
- concavity — the state or quality of being concave
- conceived — to form (a notion, opinion, purpose, etc.): He conceived the project while he was on vacation.
- conceiver — to form (a notion, opinion, purpose, etc.): He conceived the project while he was on vacation.
- conceives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conceive.