10-letter words containing v, a, i, l
- illatively — By means of illation.
- immovables — Plural form of immovable.
- immoveable — Alternative spelling of immovable.
- improvable — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
- inactively — In an inactive manner.
- individual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
- inevasible — Incapable of being evaded.
- inevitable — unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary: an inevitable conclusion.
- inevitably — unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary: an inevitable conclusion.
- insalivate — to mix with saliva, as food.
- insolvable — incapable of being solved or explained; insoluble.
- insulative — serving to protect or insulate: glassware shipped in insulative packing.
- interleave — to provide blank leaves in (a book) for notes or written comments.
- intervales — Plural form of intervale.
- intervital — existing or occurring between two lives, such as between humanly death and heavenly existence
- intravital — occurring during life.
- invalidate — to render invalid; discredit.
- invaliding — Present participle of invalid.
- invalidism — prolonged ill health.
- invalidity — invalidism.
- invaluable — beyond calculable or appraisable value; of inestimable worth; priceless: an invaluable art collection; her invaluable assistance.
- invaluably — beyond calculable or appraisable value; of inestimable worth; priceless: an invaluable art collection; her invaluable assistance.
- invariable — not variable; not changing or capable of being changed; static or constant.
- invariably — not variable; not changing or capable of being changed; static or constant.
- invasively — In an invasive manner.
- inventable — to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph.
- investable — that can be invested.
- invigilate — to keep watch.
- inviolable — prohibiting violation; secure from destruction, violence, infringement, or desecration: an inviolable sanctuary; an inviolable promise.
- inviolably — prohibiting violation; secure from destruction, violence, infringement, or desecration: an inviolable sanctuary; an inviolable promise.
- inviolated — Not violated or injured; inviolate.
- involucral — Pertaining to, possessing, or like, an involucrum.
- irrelative — not relative; without relation (usually followed by to).
- irrelevant — not relevant; not applicable or pertinent: His lectures often stray to interesting but irrelevant subjects.
- isoflavone — a phytoestrogen produced chiefly by plants of the legume family, especially soybeans, potentially useful in lowering cholesterol and in treating some cancers and menopausal symptoms.
- isopluvial — a line on a map connecting places registering the same amount of precipitation or rainfall
- ivory palm — the palm bearing the common ivory nut.
- ivy league — a group of colleges and universities in the northeastern U.S., consisting of Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, and Brown, having a reputation for high scholastic achievement and social prestige.
- jadotville — former name of Likasi.
- jail fever — a former name for typhus, once a common disease in jails
- janesville — a city in S Wisconsin.
- javelineer — A soldier who throws a javelin.
- javelinier — A soldier who throws a javelin.
- jovialness — endowed with or characterized by a hearty, joyous humor or a spirit of good-fellowship: a wonderfully jovial host.
- jugoslavia — formerly, a federal republic in S Europe: since 1992 comprised of Serbia and Montenegro; disbanded into independent countries in 2006. 39,449 sq. mi. (102,173 sq. km). Capital: Belgrade.
- juvenalian — (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) a.d. c60–140, Roman poet.
- keep-alive — (communications) A short message sent periodically on a communication channel that would otherwise time out and close due to inactivity.
- kvikkalkul — (language) /kveek`kahl-kool'/ A deliberately cryptic programming language said to have been devised by the Swedish Navy in the 1950s as part of their abortive attempt at a nuclear weapons program. What little is known about it comes from a series of an anonymous posts to Usenet in 1994. The poster described the language, saying that he had programmed in Kvikkalkul when he worked for the Swedish Navy in the 1950s. It is an open question whether the posts were a troll, a subtle parody or truth stranger than fiction could ever be. Assuming it existed, Kvikkalkul is so much a bondage-and-discipline language that it is, in its own ways, even more bizarre than the deliberate parody language INTERCAL. Among its notable "features", all symbols in Kvikkalkul, including variable names and program labels, can consist only of digits. Operators consist entirely of the punctuation symbols (, ), -, and :. Kvikkalkul allows no comments - they might not correspond with the code. Kvikkalkul's only data type is the signed fixed-point fractional number, i.e. a number between (but not including) -1 and 1. Dealings with the Real World that require numbers outside that range are done with functions that notionally map that range to a larger range (e.g., -16383 to -16383) and back. Kvikkalkul had a probabilistic jump operator which, if given a negative probability, would act like a COME FROM. This was, sadly, deleted in later versions of the language.
- labiovelar — pronounced with simultaneous bilabial and velar articulations, as w.
- lacerative — Lacerating, or having the power to lacerate.