9-letter words containing s, a, v, i, n
- knavishly — In a knavish manner.
- lavations — Plural form of lavation.
- lavishing — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- livraison — one of the numbers of a book published in parts
- naiveness — having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of artificiality; unsophisticated; ingenuous.
- naiveties — Plural form of naivety.
- nashville — a state in the SE United States. 42,246 sq. mi. (109,415 sq. km). Capital: Nashville. Abbreviation: TN (for use with zip code), Tenn.
- nativists — Plural form of nativist.
- navicerts — Plural form of navicert.
- navigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of navigate.
- navy list — (in Britain) an official list of all serving commissioned officers of the Royal Navy and reserve officers liable for recall
- negatives — Plural form of negative.
- nivernais — a former province in central France. Capital: Nevers.
- nonvisual — Not visual.
- novaesium — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia west of Düsseldorf: founded as a Roman fortress in the 1st century ad. Pop: 152 050 (2003 est)
- overstain — to stain too much
- pervasion — to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.
- ravenings — rapacious behaviour and activities
- ravishing — extremely beautiful or attractive; enchanting; entrancing.
- revarnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
- rna virus — any virus containing RNA; retrovirus.
- salvation — the act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc.
- salvemini — Gaetano [gah-e-tah-naw] /ˌgɑ ɛˈtɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1957, Italian historian in the U.S.
- sansovino — Andrea [ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), (Andrea Contucci) 1460–1529, Italian sculptor and architect.
- sauvignon — a small blue-black grape grown primarily in the Médoc region of Bordeaux, in SW France, and highly prized in winemaking.
- savviness — experienced, knowledgable, and well-informed; shrewd (often used in combination): consumers who are savvy about prices; a tech-savvy entrepreneur.
- schiavone — the Italian name for a 17th century basket-hilted sword with a double edge
- shaveling — Older Use: Disparaging. a clergyman with a shaven or tonsured head.
- sine wave — a periodic oscillation, as simple harmonic motion, having the same geometric representation as a sine function.
- slaveling — a person in a condition of servility or slavery.
- slavering — to let saliva run from the mouth; slobber; drool.
- slavonian — of or relating to Slavonia or its inhabitants.
- slovakian — a republic in central Europe: formerly a part of Czechoslovakia; under German protection 1939–45; independent since 1993. 18,931 sq. mi. (49,035 sq. km). Capital: Bratislava.
- slovenian — of or from Slovenia
- solvation — a compound formed by the interaction of a solvent and a solute.
- spin wave — a magnetic wave propagated through a crystal lattice by a collective excitation of the spin angular momentum of electrons.
- stanislav — former name of Ivano-Frankovsk.
- stavudine — an antiviral drug used to treat HIV infections
- subniveal — beneath the snow
- swan dive — into water
- swan-dive — to perform a swan dive.
- sylvanite — a mineral, gold silver telluride, (AuAg)Te 2 , silver-white with metallic luster, often occurring in crystals so arranged as to resemble written characters: an ore of gold.
- unabusive — using, containing, or characterized by harshly or coarsely insulting language: an abusive author; abusive remarks.
- unadvised — without advice or counsel; uninformed: a defendant unadvised of her legal rights.
- unevasive — tending or seeking to evade; characterized by evasion: an evasive answer.
- univalves — having one valve.
- universal — of, relating to, or characteristic of all or the whole: universal experience.
- vaginitis — inflammation of the vagina.
- vaginosis — a vaginal infection caused by a bacterial imbalance
- vaishnava — a Bhakti sect devoted to Vishnu.