9-letter words containing v, a, i, l
- disvalued — Simple past tense and past participle of disvalue.
- divalence — the state of being divalent
- dividable — capable of being divided; divisible.
- divisable — Misspelling of divisible.
- divulgate — to make publicly known; publish.
- dovetails — Plural form of dovetail.
- driveable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- duumviral — relating to duumvirs
- effluvial — a slight or invisible exhalation or vapor, especially one that is disagreeable or noxious.
- elevating — Present participle of elevate.
- elevation — The action or fact of elevating or being elevated.
- emulative — Having a tendency to emulate others; imitative.
- enslaving — Present participle of enslave.
- equivalve — equipped with identical valves (as with the bivalve mollusc)
- equivocal — Open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous.
- evangelic — Evangelical.
- evasively — In an evasive manner.
- eviternal — (obsolete) eternal; everlasting.
- favillous — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to ashes.
- festivals — Plural form of festival.
- filoviral — Relating to filoviruses.
- flavonoid — flavonoid.
- flavoring — taste, especially the distinctive taste of something as it is experienced in the mouth.
- flavorist — a person whose job is to blend natural and artificial ingredients to create the taste and smell of a specific food.
- fluviatic — living or growing in streams
- furnivall — Frederick James, 1825–1910, English philologist and editor.
- gallivant — to wander about, seeking pleasure or diversion; gad.
- gällivare — a town in N Sweden, within the Arctic Circle: iron mines. Pop: 19 191 (2004 est)
- galvanise — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- galvanism — Electricity. electricity, especially as produced by chemical action.
- galvanist — a person who studies or practises galvanism
- galvanize — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- galvinize — Misspelling of galvanize.
- gavelkind — (originally) a tenure of land in which the tenant was liable for a rental in money or produce rather than for labor or military service.
- gavelling — Present participle of gavel.
- gavialoid — of or resembling gavials
- genitival — (in certain inflected languages) noting a case of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives, used primarily to express possession, measure, or origin: as John's hat, week's vacation, duty's call.
- gilravage — riotous festivity
- granville — Earl of, Carteret, John.
- gravelike — resembling a grave
- graveling — small stones and pebbles, or a mixture of these with sand.
- grevillea — An evergreen tree or shrub bearing conspicuous flowers that lack petals, most kinds of which are native to Australia.
- haverhill — a city in NE Massachusetts, on the Merrimack River.
- havildars — Plural form of havildar.
- heavy oil — a hydrocarbon mixture, heavier than water, distilled from coal tar
- helvetian — of or relating to Helvetia or the Helvetii.
- 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.
- illatives — Plural form of illative.
- 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.
- illuviate — to undergo illuviation.