9-letter words containing v, a, c, i
- inviscate — To daub or catch with glue or birdlime; to entangle with glutinous matter.
- invocable — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
- invocated — invoke.
- invocator — invoke.
- lactivist — a person, esp a woman, who advocates strongly the breast-feeding of children, and is opposed to bottle-feeding
- larvacide — Alternative spelling of larvicide.
- larvicide — an agent for killing larvae.
- laticlave — (in ancient Rome) a broad purple stripe on the tunic of a Roman senator or high-ranking official, denoting their high social position
- lay vicar — a member of a cathedral choir appointed to sing certain parts of the services
- levitical — of or relating to the Levites.
- locatives — Plural form of locative.
- lochinvar — the hero of a ballad included in the narrative poem Marmion (1808) by Sir Walter Scott.
- lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- markevich — Igor [ee-guh r] /ˈi gər/ (Show IPA), 1912–83, Russian conductor and composer.
- mavericks — Plural form of maverick.
- microwave — an electromagnetic wave of extremely high frequency, 1 GH 3 or more, and having wavelengths of from 1 mm to 30 cm.
- misadvice — to give bad or inappropriate advice to.
- navicerts — Plural form of navicert.
- navicular — boat-shaped, as certain bones.
- niah cave — a limestone cave in Sarawak, Borneo, the site of the discovery of one of the earliest anatomically modern Homo sapiens skulls, dated c38,000 b.c.
- nonactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- noviciate — The period during which you are a novice.
- novocaine — Procaine.
- olfactive — Of or pertaining to the sense of smell; olfactory.
- overclaim — to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
- percivale — a knight who is allowed to see the Holy Grail
- piacevole — (to be performed) in a pleasant, agreeable manner
- placative — placatory.
- preactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- privacies — the state of being apart from other people or concealed from their view; solitude; seclusion: Please leave the room and give me some privacy.
- privocrat — (esp in neo-conservative thought) a person who is not in favour of relinquishing individual freedoms in order to give the state more powers to combat terrorism
- proactive — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- revictual — to victual or provide with food again
- sackville — Thomas, 1st Earl of Dorset, 1536–1608, English statesman and poet.
- schiavone — the Italian name for a 17th century basket-hilted sword with a double edge
- semivocal — of or relating to a semivowel
- siccative — causing or promoting absorption of moisture; drying.
- slavicism — Slavism.
- slavicist — a specialist in the study of the Slavic languages or literatures.
- sociative — expressing accompaniment or association
- subcavity — a cavity within a larger cavity
- tovarisch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- tzarevich — czarevitch.
- vacaville — a city in central California.
- vaccinate — to inoculate with the vaccine of cowpox so as to render the subject immune to smallpox.
- vaccinium — a member of a shrub genus including blueberries and cranberries
- vacillant — wavering; hesitant; indecisive; vacillating.
- vacillate — to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute: His tendency to vacillate makes him a poor leader.
- vacuation — an act of emptying
- vacuuming — a space entirely devoid of matter.