9-letter words containing v, a, n, e, s
- heaviness — of great weight; hard to lift or carry: a heavy load.
- hovhaness — Alan, 1911–2000, U.S. composer.
- indeavors — Plural form of indeavor.
- innovates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of innovate.
- intervals — Plural form of interval.
- invasible — (biology) Capable of being invaded by invasive species.
- invertase — an enzyme, occurring in yeast and in the digestive juices of animals, that causes the inversion of cane sugar into invert sugar.
- inviscate — To daub or catch with glue or birdlime; to entangle with glutinous matter.
- javabeans — (programming) A component architecture for the Java programming language, developed initially by Sun, but now available from several other vendors. JavaBeans components are called "beans". JavaBeans allows developers to create reusable software components that can then be assembled together using visual application builder tools including Sybase's PowerJ, Borland's JBuilder, IBM's Visual Age for Java, SunSoft's Java Workshop and Symantec's Visual Cafe. JavaBeans support Introspection (a builder tool can analyze how a Bean works), Customisation (developers can customise the appearance and behaviour of a Bean), Events (Beans can communicate), Properties (developers can customise and program with Beans(?)) and Persistence (customised Beans can be stored and reused).
- javelinas — Plural form of javelina.
- jeevesian — of, relating to, or like the butler Jeeves, who was, in the fiction of P. G. Wodehouse, a master of tact, euphemism, and ingenuity
- knaveship — a small proportion of milled grain that was due to the person who did the milling
- lavenders — Plural form of lavender.
- leavenous — containing leaven
- levanters — Plural form of levanter.
- maneuvers — Plural form of maneuver.
- maneuvres — Plural form of maneuvre.
- mangroves — Plural form of mangrove.
- naiveness — having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of artificiality; unsophisticated; ingenuous.
- naiveties — Plural form of naivety.
- nashville — a state in the SE United States. 42,246 sq. mi. (109,415 sq. km). Capital: Nashville. Abbreviation: TN (for use with zip code), Tenn.
- navicerts — Plural form of navicert.
- navigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of navigate.
- navy seal — US Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) forces
- negatives — Plural form of negative.
- nerve gas — any of several poison gases, derived chiefly from phosphoric acid, that weaken or paralyze the nervous system, especially that part of the system controlling respiration.
- nivernais — a former province in central France. Capital: Nevers.
- novaesium — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia west of Düsseldorf: founded as a Roman fortress in the 1st century ad. Pop: 152 050 (2003 est)
- observant — quick to notice or perceive; alert.
- overlands — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- overstain — to stain too much
- overstand — overreach (def 13).
- pervasion — to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.
- ravenings — rapacious behaviour and activities
- revarnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
- salvemini — Gaetano [gah-e-tah-naw] /ˌgɑ ɛˈtɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1957, Italian historian in the U.S.
- savviness — experienced, knowledgable, and well-informed; shrewd (often used in combination): consumers who are savvy about prices; a tech-savvy entrepreneur.
- scavenger — an animal or other organism that feeds on dead organic matter.
- schiavone — the Italian name for a 17th century basket-hilted sword with a double edge
- sea raven — a large marine fish of the genus Hemitripterus, as H. americanus, common on the northern Atlantic coast of America.
- servantry — servants collectively, esp the servants of a particular establishment as a body
- sevenbark — wild hydrangea.
- severance — the act of severing or the state of being severed.
- sexvalent — hexavalent or having a valency of six
- shaveling — Older Use: Disparaging. a clergyman with a shaven or tonsured head.
- sine wave — a periodic oscillation, as simple harmonic motion, having the same geometric representation as a sine function.
- slave ant — an ant taken as a larva or pupa by ants of another species and becoming a working member of the captor colony.
- slaveling — a person in a condition of servility or slavery.
- slavenska — Mia [mee-ah] /ˈmi ɑ/ (Show IPA), (Mia Corak) 1914?–2002, U.S. dancer and choreographer, born in Yugoslavia.
- slavering — to let saliva run from the mouth; slobber; drool.