11-letter words containing l, i, v, a
- ill-behaved — 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties. 2. Software that bypasses the defined operating system interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software. In the IBM PC/mess-dos world, there is a folk theorem (nearly true) to the effect that (owing to gross inadequacies and performance penalties in the OS interface) all interesting applications are ill-behaved. See also bare metal. Opposite: well-behaved, compare PC-ism.
- ill-favored — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- illuviation — the accumulation in one layer of soil of materials that have been leached out of another layer.
- imitatively — In an imitative manner.
- immoveables — incapable of being moved; fixed; stationary.
- impassively — without emotion; apathetic; unmoved.
- imperatival — of, relating to, or characteristic of the grammatical imperative.
- imperviable — Impervious.
- implicative — tending to implicate or imply; characterized by or involving implication.
- inadvisable — not advisable; inexpedient; unwise.
- inadvisably — not advisable; inexpedient; unwise.
- inadvisedly — In a manner that is not advisable.
- inavertible — Not avertible.
- incarvillea — any plant of the genus Incarvillea, native to China, of which some species are grown as garden or greenhouse plants for their large usually carmine-coloured trumpet-shaped flowers, esp I. delavayi: family Bignoniaceae
- inculcative — to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly (usually followed by upon or in): to inculcate virtue in the young.
- individable — indivisible
- individuall — Obsolete form of individual.
- individuals — Plural form of individual.
- inequivalve — (of a bivalve mollusk) having the valves of the shell unequal in shape and size.
- inevitables — Plural form of inevitable.
- infinitival — of or relating to the infinitive.
- innavigable — unable to be navigated
- innavigably — in an innavigable manner
- inoculative — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- inseverable — unable to be severed or separated: an inseverable alliance.
- interleaved — Simple past tense and past participle of interleave.
- interleaves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interleave.
- intervalley — an elongated depression between uplands, hills, or mountains, especially one following the course of a stream.
- intervallic — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
- intervallum — an interval of time
- interveinal — one of the system of branching vessels or tubes conveying blood from various parts of the body to the heart.
- interverbal — of or relating to words: verbal ability.
- invaginable — capable of being invaginated; susceptible of invagination.
- invalid car — a car specially equipped so that a handicapped person can drive it
- invalidated — Something made invalid.
- invalidates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of invalidate.
- invalidator — One who, or that which, makes invalid.
- invalidhood — the state or condition of being an invalid
- invalidness — Invalidity.
- invariantly — unvarying; invariable; constant.
- inventional — the act of inventing.
- inventorial — a complete listing of merchandise or stock on hand, work in progress, raw materials, finished goods on hand, etc., made each year by a business concern.
- invertebral — invertebrate
- inviability — (biology) The state or quality of not being viable.
- invigilated — Simple past tense and past participle of invigilate.
- invigilates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of invigilate.
- invigilator — to keep watch.
- inviolately — In an inviolate manner.
- invoiceable — Capable of being invoiced; billable.
- involucrate — having an involucre.