9-letter words containing s, l, a, v, e
- las vegas — a city in SE Nevada.
- lavateras — Plural form of lavatera.
- lavenders — Plural form of lavender.
- lavoisier — Antoine Laurent [ahn-twan loh-rahn] /ɑ̃ˈtwan loʊˈrɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1743–94, French scientist: pioneer in the field of chemistry.
- lawgivers — Plural form of lawgiver.
- laxatives — Plural form of laxative.
- leaveless — (obsolete) leafless.
- leavenous — containing leaven
- levallois — of, relating to, or characteristic of a distinctive late Lower and Middle Paleolithic method of preparing a stone core so that preformed thin, oval or triangular flakes with sharp edges could be struck from it.
- levanters — Plural form of levanter.
- leverages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of leverage.
- levigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of levigate.
- lifesaver — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- lip salve — an ointment which comes in a stick or small tub and which is applied to the lips to soothe dryness, chapping, etc
- locatives — Plural form of locative.
- love seat — a small upholstered sofa for two people
- lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
- loveseats — Plural form of loveseat.
- malvoisie — malmsey wine.
- marvelous — superb; excellent; great: a marvelous show.
- massively — consisting of or forming a large mass; bulky and heavy: massive columns.
- medievals — Plural form of medieval.
- megavolts — Plural form of megavolt.
- misvalued — Simple past tense and past participle of misvalue.
- 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.
- navy seal — US Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) forces
- outvalues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outvalue.
- overclass — a social stratum consisting of educated and wealthy people considered to control the economic power of a country.
- overfalls — Oceanography. water made rough by a strong current moving over a shoal, by an opposing current, or by winds blowing against the current.
- overlands — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- overscale — larger or more extensive than normal or usual; outsize; oversize.
- palsgrave — a German count palatine.
- passively — not reacting visibly to something that might be expected to produce manifestations of an emotion or feeling.
- pulsative — throbbing; pulsating.
- relatives — a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
- revisable — to amend or alter: to revise one's opinion.
- rivalless — without rivals
- sackville — Thomas, 1st Earl of Dorset, 1536–1608, English statesman and poet.
- sail-over — a repetition of an indecisive or interrupted run of a racing yacht.
- salvatore — a male given name.
- salvemini — Gaetano [gah-e-tah-naw] /ˌgɑ ɛˈtɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1957, Italian historian in the U.S.
- sea devil — manta (def 4).
- sea level — the horizontal plane or level corresponding to the surface of the sea at mean level between high and low tide.
- semivocal — of or relating to a semivowel
- severable — capable of being severed.
- severally — separately; singly.
- severalty — the state of being separate.
- sexvalent — hexavalent or having a valency of six
- shaveling — Older Use: Disparaging. a clergyman with a shaven or tonsured head.
- shavetail — U.S. Army. a second lieutenant.