9-letter words containing l, i, t, v
- festivals — Plural form of festival.
- festively — pertaining to or suitable for a feast or festival: festive decorations; a festive meal.
- fictively — In a fictive manner.
- flavorist — a person whose job is to blend natural and artificial ingredients to create the taste and smell of a specific food.
- fluviatic — living or growing in streams
- frivolent — (nonstandard) frivolous, trifling, silly.
- frivolity — the quality or state of being frivolous: the frivolity of Mardi Gras.
- furtively — taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance.
- gallivant — to wander about, seeking pleasure or diversion; gad.
- galvanist — a person who studies or practises galvanism
- genitival — (in certain inflected languages) noting a case of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives, used primarily to express possession, measure, or origin: as John's hat, week's vacation, duty's call.
- helvetian — of or relating to Helvetia or the Helvetii.
- helvetica — (text) One of the most widely used sans-serif typefaces, developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann. Originally called Neue Haas Grotesk, it was renamed Helvetica for the international market. Helvetica is very similar to the common Arial typeface. The name is Latin for Swiss.
- 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
- joviality — the state or quality of being jovial; merriment; jollity.
- kilovolts — Plural form of kilovolt.
- lactivist — a person, esp a woman, who advocates strongly the breast-feeding of children, and is opposed to bottle-feeding
- 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.
- lavations — Plural form of lavation.
- 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.