9-letter words containing v, a, t, i
- fricative — (of a speech sound) characterized by audible friction produced by forcing the breath through a constricted or partially obstructed passage in the vocal tract; spirantal; spirant.
- gallivant — to wander about, seeking pleasure or diversion; gad.
- galvanist — a person who studies or practises galvanism
- gemmative — relating to gemmation
- 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.
- gravesite — the site of a grave or graves; a place of burial.
- gravidity — pregnant1 (def 1).
- gravitate — to move or tend to move under the influence of gravitational force.
- gravities — Plural form of gravity.
- 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.
- grievants — Plural form of grievant.
- grivation — grid variation.
- guevarist — a supporter of the revolutionary theories and tactics of Ernesto Guevara.
- gustative — gustatory.
- hauterive — a town in SE Quebec, in E Canada.
- helvetian — of or relating to Helvetia or the Helvetii.
- helvetica — (text) One of the most widely used sans-serif typefaces, developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann. Originally called Neue Haas Grotesk, it was renamed Helvetica for the international market. Helvetica is very similar to the common Arial typeface. The name is Latin for Swiss.
- hortative — hortatory.
- i have it — I know the answer
- illatives — Plural form of illative.
- illuviate — to undergo illuviation.
- imitative — imitating; copying; given to imitation.
- impactive — caused by impact: impactive pain.
- incurvate — curved, especially inward.
- 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.
- innovator — to introduce something new; make changes in anything established.
- 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.
- invariant — unvarying; invariable; constant.
- 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.
- invocated — invoke.
- invocator — invoke.
- isolative — noting a change in part of the sound of a word made independently of the phonetic environment of that part.
- iterative — repeating; making repetition; repetitious.
- jive talk — black American slang
- joviality — the state or quality of being jovial; merriment; jollity.
- lactivist — a person, esp a woman, who advocates strongly the breast-feeding of children, and is opposed to bottle-feeding
- lambative — (archaic) Taken by licking with the tongue.
- lambitive — a medicine that is taken by licking it with the tongue
- larvikite — a blue-grey syenite that contains feldspar crystals, often used as an ornamental facing on the walls of buildings
- laticlave — (in ancient Rome) a broad purple stripe on the tunic of a Roman senator or high-ranking official, denoting their high social position