10-letter words containing t, e, l, v, a
- irrelevant — not relevant; not applicable or pertinent: His lectures often stray to interesting but irrelevant subjects.
- jadotville — former name of Likasi.
- lacerative — Lacerating, or having the power to lacerate.
- lagerkvist — Pär [par] /pær/ (Show IPA), 1891–1974, Swedish novelist, poet, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1951.
- lake volta — an artificial lake in Ghana, extending 408 km (250 miles) upstream from the Volta River Dam on the Volta River: completed in 1966. Area: 8482 sq km (3275 sq miles)
- laptev sea — an arm of the Arctic Ocean N of the Russian Federation in Asia, between Taimyr Peninsula and the New Siberian Islands.
- lavatories — Plural form of lavatory.
- lavishment — The act of lavishing.
- lentiviral — Of or pertaining to a lentivirus.
- leviathans — Plural form of leviathan.
- levigating — Present participle of levigate.
- levigation — to rub, grind, or reduce to a fine powder, as in a mortar, with or without the addition of a liquid.
- leviration — Levirate marriage.
- levitating — Present participle of levitate.
- levitation — the act or phenomenon of levitating.
- levogyrate — levorotatory
- levorotary — Levorotatory.
- liberative — to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
- light wave — the movement of light conceptualized as a wave, defined by such properties as reflection, refraction, and dispersion
- lightwaves — Plural form of lightwave.
- limitative — limiting; restrictive.
- litigative — to make the subject of a lawsuit; contest at law.
- live steam — steam direct from the boiler and at full pressure, ready for use in work.
- liver pâté — pâté made from minced liver meat
- livestream — to broadcast (an event) on the internet as it happens
- love feast — (among the early Christians) a meal eaten in token of brotherly love and charity; agape.
- love match — a marriage entered into for love alone.
- lucerative — Misspelling of lucrative.
- malevolent — wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious: His failures made him malevolent toward those who were successful.
- marvelment — The state of marvelling; amazement.
- meta-vlisp — (language) An innovative Lisp dialect by E. St.James of IBP, France.
- monovalent — Chemistry. univalent.
- multivalve — (of a shell) composed of more than two valves or pieces.
- mutilative — Causing or relating to mutilation.
- navelworts — Plural form of navelwort.
- negatively — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
- novaculite — a very hard sedimentary rock, similar to chert, composed essentially of microcrystalline quartz.
- obligative — implying or involving obligation: an obligative commitment.
- octavalent — having a valence of eight.
- oppilative — obstructive; blocking
- optatively — In an optative way.
- outrivaled — Simple past tense and past participle of outrival.
- outtravels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outtravel.
- over-alert — abnormally alert
- overbrutal — excessively brutal
- overlearnt — relating to repetitive practice or learning
- overmantel — situated above a mantelpiece.
- palliative — serving to palliate.
- palm civet — any of various small to medium-sized, chiefly arboreal cats of the civet family, of southeastern Asia, the East Indies, etc., with a spotted or striped coat and a long curled tail.
- pole vault — sports event: high jump using a pole