9-letter words containing l, a, e, v
- unraveled — to separate or disentangle the threads of (a woven or knitted fabric, a rope, etc.).
- unrivaled — having no rival or competitor; having no equal; incomparable; supreme: His work is unrivaled for the beauty of its prose.
- vacaville — a city in central California.
- vacillate — to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute: His tendency to vacillate makes him a poor leader.
- vacuolate — having a vacuole or vacuoles.
- valencies — valence.
- valentine — Saint, died a.d. c270, Christian martyr at Rome.
- valentino — Rudolph (Rodolpho d'Antonguolla) 1895–1926, U.S. motion-picture actor, born in Italy.
- validated — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- vallecula — a furrow or depression.
- valuables — having considerable monetary worth; costing or bringing a high price: a valuable painting; a valuable crop.
- valueless — without worth or value; worthless: valueless stocks; a valueless promise.
- van allen — James Alfred, 1914–2006, U.S. physicist and space scientist.
- van fleet — James Alward [al-werd] /ˈæl wərd/ (Show IPA), 1892–1992, U.S. army general.
- van vleck — John H(asbrouck) [haz-broo k] /ˈhæz brʊk/ (Show IPA), 1899–1980, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1977.
- vandalise — to destroy or deface by vandalism: Someone vandalized the museum during the night.
- vandalize — to destroy or deface by vandalism: Someone vandalized the museum during the night.
- varicella — chickenpox.
- variolate — resembling smallpox, as a lesion.
- variolite — a rock embedded with varioles; a variolitic rock.
- varletess — a female varlet
- varvelled — having varvels
- vassalage — the state or condition of a vassal.
- vassaless — a female vassal
- vassalize — to make a vassal of
- vassalled — under the power of someone else; enslaved
- vauquelin — Louis Nicolas [lwee nee-kaw-lah] /lwi ni kɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), 1763–1829, French chemist: discoverer of chromium and beryllium.
- veal calf — a calf, esp one bred for eating
- veblenian — of, relating to, or suggesting the theories of Thorstein Veblen.
- vectorial — Mathematics. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of which is proportional to the magnitude. Compare scalar (def 4). such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities obey the parallelogram law of addition. such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities are to transform in a particular way under changes of the coordinate system. any generalization of the above quantities.
- vega alta — a city in N Puerto Rico.
- vegetable — any plant whose fruit, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems, leaves, or flower parts are used as food, as the tomato, bean, beet, potato, onion, asparagus, spinach, or cauliflower.
- vegetably — like or in the manner of a vegetable.
- vegetally — in a vegetal manner
- vehicular — of, relating to, or for vehicles: a vehicular tunnel.
- velarized — pronounced with velar coarticulation.
- velazquez — Diego Rodríguez de Silva y [dye-gaw raw-th ree-geth th e seel-vah ee] /ˈdyɛ gɔ rɔˈðri gɛθ ðɛ ˈsil vɑ i/ (Show IPA), 1599–1660, Spanish painter.
- vellicate — to pluck; twitch.
- venerable — commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity; worthy of veneration or reverence, as because of high office or noble character: a venerable member of Congress.
- venerably — commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity; worthy of veneration or reverence, as because of high office or noble character: a venerable member of Congress.
- venezuela — a republic in N South America. 352,143 sq. mi. (912,050 sq. km). Capital: Caracas.
- vengeable — deserving revenge
- vengeably — in a vengeable manner
- veniality — able to be forgiven or pardoned; not seriously wrong, as a sin (opposed to mortal).
- ventilate — to provide (a room, mine, etc.) with fresh air in place of air that has been used or contaminated.
- ventrally — of or relating to the venter or belly; abdominal.
- verapamil — a white crystalline powder, C 27 H 38 N 2 O 4 , used as a calcium blocker in the treatment of angina and certain arrhythmias.
- verbalise — to express in words: He couldn't verbalize his feelings.
- verbalism — a verbal expression, as a word or phrase.
- verbalist — a person skilled in the use of words.