9-letter words containing v, a, n
- cavallini — Pietro (ˈpjɛːtro). ?1250–?1330, Italian fresco painter and mosaicist. His works include the mosaics of the Life of the Virgin in Santa Maria, Trastevere, Rome
- cavatinas — Plural form of cavatina.
- cavendish — tobacco that has been sweetened and pressed into moulds to form bars
- cavernous — A cavernous room or building is very large inside, and so it reminds you of a cave.
- cavessons — Plural form of cavesson.
- cavewoman — A prehistoric woman who lived in caves.
- cavewomen — Plural form of cavewoman.
- cavilling — to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily (usually followed by at or about): He finds something to cavil at in everything I say.
- cavitands — Plural form of cavitand.
- cavorting — to prance or caper about.
- cervantes — Miguel de (miˈɣɛl ðe), full surname Cervantes Saavedra. 1547–1616, Spanish dramatist, poet, and prose writer, most famous for Don Quixote (1605), which satirizes the chivalric romances and greatly influenced the development of the novel
- chavannes — Puvis de [py-vee duh] /püˈvi də/ (Show IPA), Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre.
- ci-devant — (esp of an office-holder) former; recent
- civilians — Plural form of civilian.
- clavation — the state of being clavate
- clavering — Present participle of claver.
- clavicorn — any beetle of the group Clavicornia, including the ladybirds, characterized by club-shaped antennae
- cleveland — a former county of NE England formed in 1974 from parts of E Durham and N Yorkshire; replaced in 1996 by the unitary authorities of Hartlepool (Durham), Stockton-on-Tees (Durham), Middlesbrough (North Yorkshire) and Redcar and Cleveland (North Yorkshire)
- concaving — curved like a segment of the interior of a circle or hollow sphere; hollow and curved. Compare convex (def 1).
- concavity — the state or quality of being concave
- conclaves — A private meeting.
- confervae — Plural form of conferva.
- conrad iv — 1228–54, king of Germany 1237–54 and Sicily 1251–54; uncrowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (son of Frederick II).
- convivial — Convivial people or occasions are pleasant, friendly, and relaxed.
- convocate — to summon or call together
- covalence — the number of pairs of electrons that an atom can share with its neighboring atoms
- covalency — the formation and nature of covalent bonds
- covariant — a variant that changes leaving interrelations with another variant (or variants) unchanged
- covenants — Plural form of covenant.
- craigavon — a district in central Northern Ireland, in Co Armagh. Pop: 57 685 (2001). Area: 279 sq km (108 sq miles)
- cravening — Present participle of craven.
- cravingly — With longing or craving.
- curvation — the action of curving or bending
- d'avenant — Sir William, 1606–68, English dramatist and producer: poet laureate 1638–68.
- dan river — a river in S Virginia and N North Carolina, flowing S and E to the Roanoke River. 180 miles (290 km) long.
- davenport — a tall narrow desk with a slanted writing surface and drawers at the side
- de varona — Donna, born 1947, U.S. swimmer.
- delavigne — (Jean François) Casiˈmir (kaziˈmɪʀ) ; kȧzēmirˈ) 1793-1843; Fr. poet & playwright
- denervate — to deprive (a tissue or organ) of its nerve supply
- depraving — Present participle of deprave.
- derzhavin — Gavril Romanovich [gah-vril roh-mah-nuh-vich;; Russian guh-vryil ruh-mah-nuh-vyich] /gɑˈvrɪl roʊˈmɑ nə vɪtʃ;; Russian gəˈvryɪl rəˈmɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1743–1816, Russian poet.
- devaluing — to deprive of value; reduce the value of.
- devanning — Present participle of devan.
- devasting — Present participle of devast.
- deviances — deviant quality or state.
- deviating — to turn aside, as from a route, way, course, etc.
- deviation — Deviation means doing something that is different from what people consider to be normal or acceptable.
- dissaving — The action of spending more than one has earned in a given period.
- divalence — the state of being divalent
- divinator — a diviner