10-letter words containing i, v, e
- advocacies — the act of pleading for, supporting, or recommending; active espousal: He was known for his advocacy of states' rights.
- advocative — characterized by advocating
- aestivates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aestivate.
- affinitive — characterized by affinity; closely related or associated.
- afflictive — causing pain or misery
- affrontive — characterized by a propensity to cause offence
- afterlives — Plural form of afterlife.
- aggressive — An aggressive person or animal has a quality of anger and determination that makes them ready to attack other people.
- aggrieving — Present participle of aggrieve.
- air travel — transportation in aircraft
- airbrasive — a method of removing deposits from the teeth, or rarely, of preparing teeth for filling, by wearing down the surface with an abrasive substance blown by a jet of air
- alienative — the state of being alienated, withdrawn, or isolated from the objective world, as through indifference or disaffection: the group's alienation from mainstream society.
- alive with — teeming with; full of (living or moving things)
- alleviated — to make easier to endure; lessen; mitigate: to alleviate sorrow; to alleviate pain.
- alleviates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alleviate.
- alleviator — a person or thing that alleviates.
- allocative — the act of allocating; apportionment.
- allusively — having reference to something implied or inferred; containing, abounding in, or characterized by allusions.
- almoravide — a member of a fanatical people of Berber origin and Islamic faith, who founded an empire in N Africa that spread over much of Spain in the 11th century ad
- alterative — likely or able to produce alteration
- alveolitis — an inflammation of the alveoli, occurring either in the lungs or in the socket of a tooth
- ambilevous — (rare) Having equally bad ability in both hands; clumsy; butterfingered.
- ambivalent — If you say that someone is ambivalent about something, they seem to be uncertain whether they really want it, or whether they really approve of it.
- ampliative — serving to extend or add to what is already known
- animadvert — to comment with strong criticism (upon); make censorious remarks (about)
- annotative — to supply with critical or explanatory notes; comment upon in notes: to annotate the works of Shakespeare.
- antinovels — Plural form of antinovel.
- antivaxxer — a person who distrusts or is against vaccination, especially a parent who refuses to have a young child vaccinated.
- antivenene — Alternative spelling of anti-venene.
- antivenins — Plural form of antivenin.
- antivenoms — Plural form of antivenom.
- apperceive — to be aware of perceiving
- appetitive — pertaining to appetite.
- applausive — characterized by applause
- appointive — relating to or filled by appointment
- appositive — standing in apposition
- appraisive — to estimate the monetary value of; determine the worth of; assess: We had an expert appraise the house before we bought it.
- aqua vitae — alcohol
- arborvitae — any of a number of N. American or Far Eastern evergreen conifers, belonging chiefly to the genus Thuja
- architrave — the lowest part of an entablature that bears on the columns
- arenavirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Arenaviridae, usually transmitted to humans by contact with excreta of infected rodents.
- arrivistes — Plural form of arriviste.
- arrogative — Making undue claims and pretensions; prone to arrogance.
- arvicoline — inhabiting meadows or rural areas
- ascriptive — having the ability to be attributable to
- assaultive — tending or seeming to assault; physically aggressive: the assaultive behavior of the inmates; the assaultive manner of some rock bands.
- assumptive — taken for granted.
- astrictive — Binding; astringent.
- atevirdine — A non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor that has been studied for the treatment of HIV.
- attractive — A person who is attractive is pleasant to look at.