9-letter words containing l, i, v, e
- felipe vi — born 1968, king of Spain from 2014; succeeded his father Juan Carlos, who abdicated
- 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.
- fieldvole — a small rodent, Microtus agrestis
- five hole — the opening between a goaltender's parted legs.
- flerovium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Fl; atomic number: 114.
- flip over — turn upside down
- fly river — a river in New Guinea, flowing SE from the central part to the Gulf of Papua, about 800 miles (1290 km) long.
- fly-drive — On a fly-drive holiday, you travel part of the way to your destination by aeroplane, and collect a hired car at the airport so that you can drive the rest of the way.
- frivolent — (nonstandard) frivolous, trifling, silly.
- frivoller — Alt form frivoler.
- furtively — taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance.
- gällivare — a town in N Sweden, within the Arctic Circle: iron mines. Pop: 19 191 (2004 est)
- galvanise — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- galvanize — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- galvinize — Misspelling of galvanize.
- gavelkind — (originally) a tenure of land in which the tenant was liable for a rental in money or produce rather than for labor or military service.
- gavelling — Present participle of gavel.
- 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.
- gilravage — riotous festivity
- granville — Earl of, Carteret, John.
- gravelike — resembling a grave
- graveling — small stones and pebbles, or a mixture of these with sand.
- grenville — George, 1712–70, British statesman: prime minister 1763–65.
- grevillea — An evergreen tree or shrub bearing conspicuous flowers that lack petals, most kinds of which are native to Australia.
- groveling — to humble oneself or act in an abject manner, as in great fear or utter servility.
- haverhill — a city in NE Massachusetts, on the Merrimack River.
- heavy oil — a hydrocarbon mixture, heavier than water, distilled from coal tar
- helldiver — a grebe, especially the pied-billed grebe.
- 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.
- hemiliver — Lb anatomy Half of the liver.
- hilversum — a city in central Netherlands.
- hovelling — A method of securing a good draught in chimneys by covering the top, leaving openings in the sides, or by carrying up two of the sides higher than the other two.
- iberville — Pierre le Moyne [pyer luh mwan] /pyɛr lə ˈmwan/ (Show IPA), Sieur, 1661–1706, French naval officer, born in Canada: founder of the first French settlement in Louisiana, 1699.
- illatives — Plural form of illative.
- illuviate — to undergo illuviation.
- immovable — incapable of being moved; fixed; stationary.
- implosive — characterized by a partial vacuum behind the point of closure.
- impulsive — actuated or swayed by emotional or involuntary impulses: an impulsive child.
- in clover — any of various plants of the genus Trifolium, of the legume family, having trifoliolate leaves and dense flower heads, many species of which, as T. pratense, are cultivated as forage plants.
- in revolt — in the process or state of rebelling
- inclusive — including or encompassing the stated limit or extremes in consideration or account (usually used postpositively): from 6 to 37 inclusive.
- inflative — causing inflation; tending to inflate (something) or produce swelling
- ingluvies — a dilation or pouch in the oesophagus of certain animals that receives food prior to the main stomach, esp a bird's craw, or the first stomach of a cow or other ruminating animal
- 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.