9-letter words containing v, l, i
- trivially — of very little importance or value; insignificant: Don't bother me with trivial matters.
- trouville — a seaport in NW France, on the English Channel: resort.
- unavailed — to be of use or value to; profit; advantage: All our efforts availed us little in trying to effect a change.
- unbelieve — to disbelieve or distrust something
- univalent — Chemistry. having a valence of one; monovalent.
- univalves — having one valve.
- universal — of, relating to, or characteristic of all or the whole: universal experience.
- unlivable — suitable for living in; habitable; comfortable: It took a lot of work to make the old house livable.
- unrivaled — having no rival or competitor; having no equal; incomparable; supreme: His work is unrivaled for the beauty of its prose.
- unveiling — a ceremony in which a statue or monument is presented or displayed for the first time by removing its covering.
- unvisible — that can be seen; perceptible to the eye: mountains visible in the distance.
- uv filter — ultraviolet filter.
- vacaville — a city in central California.
- vacillant — wavering; hesitant; indecisive; vacillating.
- vacillate — to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute: His tendency to vacillate makes him a poor leader.
- vaginally — Anatomy, Zoology. pertaining to or involving the vagina.
- vainglory — excessive elation or pride over one's own achievements, abilities, etc.; boastful vanity.
- valencies — valence.
- valentine — Saint, died a.d. c270, Christian martyr at Rome.
- valentino — Rudolph (Rodolpho d'Antonguolla) 1895–1926, U.S. motion-picture actor, born in Italy.
- valiantly — boldly courageous; brave; stout-hearted: a valiant soldier.
- validated — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- validator — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- valkyrian — any of the beautiful maidens attendant upon Odin who bring the souls of slain warriors chosen by Odin or Tyr to Valhalla and there wait upon them.
- vallation — a rampart or entrenchment.
- valuating — to set a value on; appraise.
- valuation — the act of estimating or setting the value of something; appraisal.
- vampishly — in a vampish manner
- vandalise — to destroy or deface by vandalism: Someone vandalized the museum during the night.
- vandalism — the conduct or spirit characteristic of the Vandals.
- vandalize — to destroy or deface by vandalism: Someone vandalized the museum during the night.
- varicella — chickenpox.
- varifocal — having a focus that can vary
- variolate — resembling smallpox, as a lesion.
- variolite — a rock embedded with varioles; a variolitic rock.
- varioloid — resembling smallpox.
- variolous — of or relating to smallpox.
- variously — of different kinds, as two or more things; differing one from another: Various experiments have not proved his theory.
- varyingly — to change or alter, as in form, appearance, character, or substance: to vary one's methods.
- vassalize — to make a vassal of
- vaticinal — of, relating to, or characterized by prophecy; prophetic.
- vauquelin — Louis Nicolas [lwee nee-kaw-lah] /lwi ni kɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), 1763–1829, French chemist: discoverer of chromium and beryllium.
- veblenian — of, relating to, or suggesting the theories of Thorstein Veblen.
- veblenism — the economic or social theories originated by Thorstein Veblen.
- vectorial — Mathematics. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of which is proportional to the magnitude. Compare scalar (def 4). such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities obey the parallelogram law of addition. such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities are to transform in a particular way under changes of the coordinate system. any generalization of the above quantities.
- veeringly — in a veering manner
- vehicular — of, relating to, or for vehicles: a vehicular tunnel.
- veilleuse — a sofa having a low and a high end, with a back that slopes from one end to the other.
- velarized — pronounced with velar coarticulation.
- vellicate — to pluck; twitch.