9-letter words containing v, a, n, e
- 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.
- slovenian — of or from Slovenia
- sovenance — memory
- spin wave — a magnetic wave propagated through a crystal lattice by a collective excitation of the spin angular momentum of electrons.
- standover — practising or relating to acts of threatening, intimidating or extorting money from people by force
- stavanger — a seaport in SW Norway.
- stavudine — an antiviral drug used to treat HIV infections
- stevenage — a town in N Hertfordshire, in SE England.
- suaveness — a suave or smoothly agreeable quality.
- subniveal — beneath the snow
- sunnyvale — a city in central California, south of San Francisco.
- supernova — the explosion of a star, possibly caused by gravitational collapse, during which the star's luminosity increases by as much as 20 magnitudes and most of the star's mass is blown away at very high velocity, sometimes leaving behind an extremely dense core.
- swan dive — into water
- swan-dive — to perform a swan dive.
- sylvanite — a mineral, gold silver telluride, (AuAg)Te 2 , silver-white with metallic luster, often occurring in crystals so arranged as to resemble written characters: an ore of gold.
- tara vine — a leafy, woody vine, Actinidia arguta, of Japan and eastern Asia, having white flowers and yellowish, sweet, edible fruit.
- tax haven — a foreign country or corporation used to avoid or reduce income taxes, especially by investors from another country.
- tentative — of the nature of or made or done as a trial, experiment, or attempt; experimental: a tentative report on her findings.
- tervalent — trivalent.
- the raven — a lyric poem (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe.
- transvest — to wear clothes traditionally associated with the opposite sex
- traveling — activity: journeying
- trevelyan — George Macaulay, 1876–1962, English historian.
- trivalent — Chemistry. having a valence of three.
- unabusive — using, containing, or characterized by harshly or coarsely insulting language: an abusive author; abusive remarks.
- unadvised — without advice or counsel; uninformed: a defendant unadvised of her legal rights.
- unarrived — to come to a certain point in the course of travel; reach one's destination: He finally arrived in Rome.
- unavailed — to be of use or value to; profit; advantage: All our efforts availed us little in trying to effect a change.
- unavenged — to take vengeance or exact satisfaction for: to avenge a grave insult.
- unaverage — not average or ordinary
- unaverted — to turn away or aside: to avert one's eyes.
- unavoided — not avoided or evaded
- unevasive — tending or seeking to evade; characterized by evasion: an evasive answer.
- unfavored — regarded or treated with preference or partiality: Her beauty made her the favored child.
- ungravely — in a light-hearted manner
- univalent — Chemistry. having a valence of one; monovalent.