9-letter words containing v, a, n
- galvanist — a person who studies or practises galvanism
- galvanize — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- galveston — a seaport in SE Texas, on an island at the mouth of Galveston Bay.
- 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.
- 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.
- go native — being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one's native land.
- goncharov — Ivan Alexandrovich [ih-vahn al-ig-zan-druh-vich,, -zahn-,, ahy-vuh n;; Russian ee-vahn uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /ɪˈvɑn ˌæl ɪgˈzæn drə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-,, ˈaɪ vən;; Russian iˈvɑn ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1812–91, Russian novelist.
- gonsalves — Paul, 1920–74, U.S. jazz saxophonist.
- governall — government
- grandview — a town in W Missouri.
- granivore — Any animal that eats seeds as the main part of its diet.
- granville — Earl of, Carteret, John.
- grapevine — a town in N Texas.
- gravamens — Plural form of gravamen.
- graveling — small stones and pebbles, or a mixture of these with sand.
- graveness — serious or solemn; sober: a grave person; grave thoughts.
- gravesend — a seaport in NW Kent, in SE England, on the Thames River: incorporated into Gravesham 1974.
- gravitino — the hypothetical fermionic partner of the graviton, predicted by the supergravity extension of Einstein's theory of general relativity.
- gravitons — Plural form of graviton.
- 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.
- grivation — grid variation.
- haakon iv — surnamed Haakonsson. 1204–63, king of Norway (1217–63). He strengthened the monarchy and extended Norwegian territory to include Iceland and Greenland
- hadrian v — died 1276, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1276.
- 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.
- harrovian — of or relating to Harrow.
- 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.
- in favour — If you are in favour of something, you support it and think that it is a good thing.
- incurvate — curved, especially inward.
- indeavors — Plural form of indeavor.
- indeavour — Archaic form of endeavour.
- indinavir — (pharmaceutical drug) An anti-retroviral drug of the protease inhibitor class that is used in to treat HIV infected patients.
- induviate — covered by induviae