9-letter words containing v, a, n, e
- grievance — a wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress: Inequitable taxation is the chief grievance.
- grievants — Plural form of grievant.
- han river — a dynasty in China, 206 b.c.–a.d. 220, with an interregnum, a.d. 9–25: characterized by consolidation of the centralized imperial state and territorial expansion. Compare Earlier Han, Later Han.
- hand over — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- handovers — Plural form of handover.
- handwoven — made on a handloom; handloomed.
- hang five — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hang over — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hangovers — Plural form of hangover.
- have done — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- have-nots — people who are very poor
- haversian — designating or of the canals through which blood vessels and connective tissue pass in bone
- haversine — one half the versed sine of a given angle or arc.
- heaviness — of great weight; hard to lift or carry: a heavy load.
- heavy ion — the nucleus of a heavy element.
- helvetian — of or relating to Helvetia or the Helvetii.
- hovhaness — Alan, 1911–2000, U.S. composer.
- hydrovane — a vane on a seaplane conferring stability on water (a sponson) or facilitating take off (a hydrofoil)
- hypernova — (astronomy) The gravitational collapse of a massive star to form a black hole.
- incurvate — curved, especially inward.
- indeavors — Plural form of indeavor.
- indeavour — Archaic form of endeavour.
- induviate — covered by induviae
- inflative — causing inflation; tending to inflate (something) or produce swelling
- innervate — to communicate nervous energy to; stimulate through nerves.
- innovated — to introduce something new; make changes in anything established.
- innovates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of innovate.
- intervale — a low-lying tract of land along a river.
- intervals — Plural form of interval.
- invacuate — To confine (people) to a closed area in an emergency situation.
- invadable — to enter forcefully as an enemy; go into with hostile intent: Germany invaded Poland in 1939.
- invalided — Simple past tense and past participle of invalid.
- invasible — (biology) Capable of being invaded by invasive species.
- inveraray — a town in W Scotland, in Argyll and Bute: Inveraray Castle is the seat of the Dukes of Argyll. Pop: about 700 (2001)
- invertase — an enzyme, occurring in yeast and in the digestive juices of animals, that causes the inversion of cane sugar into invert sugar.
- inviolate — free from violation, injury, desecration, or outrage.
- 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.
- invokable — (computing) That can be invoked; callable.
- inweaving — Present participle of inweave.
- 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
- juvenilia — (literature, plural only) Works produced during an artist's or author's youth.
- knaveship — a small proportion of milled grain that was due to the person who did the milling
- kobenhavn — Danish name of Copenhagen.
- københavn — a seaport in and the capital of Denmark, on the E coast of Zealand.
- landgrave — (in medieval Germany) a count having jurisdiction over a large territory.
- larvacean — Any of various solitary, free-swimming tunicates of the class Larvacea.