9-letter words containing v, l, i
- sackville — Thomas, 1st Earl of Dorset, 1536–1608, English statesman and poet.
- sail-over — a repetition of an indecisive or interrupted run of a racing yacht.
- salivator — any agent that causes salivation.
- salvation — the act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc.
- salvemini — Gaetano [gah-e-tah-naw] /ˌgɑ ɛˈtɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1957, Italian historian in the U.S.
- sea devil — manta (def 4).
- seclusive — tending to seclude, especially oneself.
- selective — having the function or power of selecting; making a selection.
- semivocal — of or relating to a semivowel
- semivowel — Phonetics. a speech sound of vowel quality used as a consonant, as (w) in wet or (y) in yet.
- servilely — slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning: servile flatterers.
- servilism — the condition of being servile; servility, esp consistent or complete servility
- servility — slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning: servile flatterers.
- shaveling — Older Use: Disparaging. a clergyman with a shaven or tonsured head.
- shavetail — U.S. Army. a second lieutenant.
- she-devil — a woman who resembles a devil, as in extreme wickedness, cruelty, or bad temper.
- shoveling — an implement consisting of a broad blade or scoop attached to a long handle, used for taking up, removing, or throwing loose matter, as earth, snow, or coal.
- silvering — Chemistry. a white, ductile metallic element, used for making mirrors, coins, ornaments, table utensils, photographic chemicals, conductors, etc. Symbol: Ag; atomic weight: 107.870; atomic number: 47; specific gravity: 10.5 at 20°C.
- silverius — Saint, died a.d. 537, pope 536–37.
- silverize — to cover, plate, or treat with silver.
- silvertip — grizzly bear.
- silvester — Sylvester II.
- slaveling — a person in a condition of servility or slavery.
- slavering — to let saliva run from the mouth; slobber; drool.
- slavicism — Slavism.
- slavicist — a specialist in the study of the Slavic languages or literatures.
- slavishly — of or befitting a slave: slavish subjection.
- slavonian — of or relating to Slavonia or its inhabitants.
- slipcover — a cover of cloth or other material for a piece of furniture, as an upholstered chair or sofa, made so as to be easily removable.
- slivering — a small, slender, often sharp piece, as of wood or glass, split, broken, or cut off, usually lengthwise or with the grain; splinter.
- slivovitz — a dry, usually colorless, slightly bitter plum brandy from E Europe.
- slovakian — a republic in central Europe: formerly a part of Czechoslovakia; under German protection 1939–45; independent since 1993. 18,931 sq. mi. (49,035 sq. km). Capital: Bratislava.
- slovenian — of or from Slovenia
- sniveling — to weep or cry with sniffling.
- solvation — a compound formed by the interaction of a solvent and a solute.
- souvlakia — a dish similar to shish kebab made with lamb.
- spillover — the act of spilling over.
- spoilfive — a game played by two to ten persons having five cards each.
- spoolview — (tool) A printing system for Unix. SpoolView can control several printers connected to a TCP/IP network. Different printers can be loaded with different paper and forms. After submitting a print request, the user can change the printer, form, number of copies or priority. Administrators can register new printers, change paper forms on printers, cancel requests, suspend printers.
- stanislav — former name of Ivano-Frankovsk.
- suasively — persuasively; in a persuasive manner
- subniveal — beneath the snow
- swissvale — a city in SW Pennsylvania, on the Monongahela River.
- 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.
- sylvinite — an ore containing sylvine
- talkative — inclined to talk a great deal: One drink and she became very talkative.
- televised — broadcast on TV
- televisor — an apparatus for transmitting or receiving television.
- traveling — activity: journeying
- trivalent — Chemistry. having a valence of three.