9-letter words containing v, a, c, i
- clavicorn — any beetle of the group Clavicornia, including the ladybirds, characterized by club-shaped antennae
- clavicula — the clavicle
- claviform — clavate
- coevality — The condition of being coeval.
- collative — involving collation
- colluvial — loose earth material that has accumulated at the base of a hill, through the action of gravity, as piles of talus, avalanche debris, and sheets of detritus moved by soil creep or frost action.
- combative — A person who is combative is aggressive and eager to fight or argue.
- concaving — curved like a segment of the interior of a circle or hollow sphere; hollow and curved. Compare convex (def 1).
- concavity — the state or quality of being concave
- conrad iv — 1228–54, king of Germany 1237–54 and Sicily 1251–54; uncrowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (son of Frederick II).
- convivial — Convivial people or occasions are pleasant, friendly, and relaxed.
- corivalry — joint or mutual rivalry
- corrasive — Obsolete form of corrosive.
- corvallis — a city in W Oregon.
- covariant — a variant that changes leaving interrelations with another variant (or variants) unchanged
- covariate — a statistical variable that changes in a predictable way and can be used to predict the outcome of a study
- craigavon — a district in central Northern Ireland, in Co Armagh. Pop: 57 685 (2001). Area: 279 sq km (108 sq miles)
- cravening — Present participle of craven.
- cravingly — With longing or craving.
- creatives — Plural form of creative.
- crimewave — a period of increased criminal activity
- cultivars — Plural form of cultivar.
- cultivate — If you cultivate land or crops, you prepare land and grow crops on it.
- curvation — the action of curving or bending
- curvative — (of leaves) having curved edges
- davis cup — an annual international lawn tennis championship for men's teams
- deviances — deviant quality or state.
- divalence — the state of being divalent
- echeveria — any of numerous succulent plants of the genus Echeveria, native to tropical America and having thick leaves characteristically forming rosettes.
- educative — serving to educate: educative knowledge.
- embracive — (archaic) Disposed to embrace; fond of caressing.
- enhancive — Tending to enhance something.
- equivocal — Open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous.
- evangelic — Evangelical.
- evocating — Present participle of evocate.
- evocation — The act of calling out or forth, or evoking.
- evocative — Bringing strong images, memories, or feelings to mind.
- factitive — noting or pertaining to verbs that express the idea of making or rendering in a certain way and that take a direct object and an additional word or group of words indicating the result of the process, as made in They made him king.
- factivity — (of a verb, adjective, or noun phrase) presupposing the truth of an embedded sentence that serves as complement, as realize in I didn't realize that he had left, which presupposes that it is true that he had left.
- fluviatic — living or growing in streams
- fricative — (of a speech sound) characterized by audible friction produced by forcing the breath through a constricted or partially obstructed passage in the vocal tract; spirantal; spirant.
- give back — return: sth to sb
- give-back — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
- givebacks — Plural form of giveback.
- grievance — a wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress: Inequitable taxation is the chief grievance.
- 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.
- illiac iv — (computer) One of the most infamous supercomputers ever. It used early ideas on SIMD (single instruction stream, multiple data streams). The project started in 1965, it used 64 processors and a 13MHz clock. In 1976 it ran its first sucessfull application. It had 1MB memory (64x16KB). Its actual performance was 15 MFLOPS, it was estimated in initial predictions to be 1000 MFLOPS. It totally failed as a computer, only a quarter of the fully planned machine was ever built, costs escalated from the $8 million estimated in 1966 to $31 million by 1972, and the computer took three more years of enginering before it was operational. The only good it did was to push research forward a bit, leading way for machines such as the Thinking Machines CM-1 and CM-2.
- impactive — caused by impact: impactive pain.
- incurvate — curved, especially inward.
- invacuate — To confine (people) to a closed area in an emergency situation.