9-letter words containing v, l, i
- 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.
- helvetius — Claude Adrien [klawd ey-dree-uh n;; French klohd a-dree-ahn] /klɔd ˈeɪ dri ən;; French kloʊd a driˈɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1715–71, French philosopher.
- hemiliver — Lb anatomy Half of the liver.
- hilversum — a city in central Netherlands.
- hovelling — A method of securing a good draught in chimneys by covering the top, leaving openings in the sides, or by carrying up two of the sides higher than the other two.
- iberville — Pierre le Moyne [pyer luh mwan] /pyɛr lə ˈmwan/ (Show IPA), Sieur, 1661–1706, French naval officer, born in Canada: founder of the first French settlement in Louisiana, 1699.
- illatives — Plural form of illative.
- illiac iv — (computer) One of the most infamous supercomputers ever. It used early ideas on SIMD (single instruction stream, multiple data streams). The project started in 1965, it used 64 processors and a 13MHz clock. In 1976 it ran its first sucessfull application. It had 1MB memory (64x16KB). Its actual performance was 15 MFLOPS, it was estimated in initial predictions to be 1000 MFLOPS. It totally failed as a computer, only a quarter of the fully planned machine was ever built, costs escalated from the $8 million estimated in 1966 to $31 million by 1972, and the computer took three more years of enginering before it was operational. The only good it did was to push research forward a bit, leading way for machines such as the Thinking Machines CM-1 and CM-2.
- illuviate — to undergo illuviation.
- immovable — incapable of being moved; fixed; stationary.
- immovably — incapable of being moved; fixed; stationary.
- implosive — characterized by a partial vacuum behind the point of closure.
- impluvium — a basin or tank within a compluvium.
- impulsive — actuated or swayed by emotional or involuntary impulses: an impulsive child.
- in clover — any of various plants of the genus Trifolium, of the legume family, having trifoliolate leaves and dense flower heads, many species of which, as T. pratense, are cultivated as forage plants.
- in revolt — in the process or state of rebelling
- inclusive — including or encompassing the stated limit or extremes in consideration or account (usually used postpositively): from 6 to 37 inclusive.
- inflative — causing inflation; tending to inflate (something) or produce swelling
- ingluvial — of or relating to an ingluvies
- ingluvies — a dilation or pouch in the oesophagus of certain animals that receives food prior to the main stomach, esp a bird's craw, or the first stomach of a cow or other ruminating animal
- insolvent — not solvent; unable to satisfy creditors or discharge liabilities, either because liabilities exceed assets or because of inability to pay debts as they mature.
- insultive — (rare,non-standard) Insulting.
- intervale — a low-lying tract of land along a river.
- intervals — Plural form of interval.
- invadable — to enter forcefully as an enemy; go into with hostile intent: Germany invaded Poland in 1939.
- invalided — Simple past tense and past participle of invalid.
- invalidly — not valid; without force or foundation; indefensible.
- invasible — (biology) Capable of being invaded by invasive species.
- inveigled — Simple past tense and past participle of inveigle.
- inveigler — One who inveigles.
- inveigles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inveigle.
- inversely — in an inverse manner.
- inviolate — free from violation, injury, desecration, or outrage.
- invisible — not visible; not perceptible by the eye: invisible fluid.
- invisibly — not visible; not perceptible by the eye: invisible fluid.
- invocable — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
- invokable — (computing) That can be invoked; callable.
- involucel — a secondary involucre, as in a compound cluster of flowers.
- involucre — Botany. a collection or rosette of bracts subtending a flower cluster, umbel, or the like.
- involuted — intricate; complex.
- involutes — Plural form of involute.
- involving — to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours and hard work.
- isolative — noting a change in part of the sound of a word made independently of the phonetic environment of that part.
- ivorybill — The ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis).
- javelinas — Plural form of javelina.
- jive talk — black American slang
- joinville — Jean de [zhahn duh] /ʒɑ̃ də/ (Show IPA), 1224?–1317, French chronicler.
- joviality — the state or quality of being jovial; merriment; jollity.
- juveniles — Plural form of juvenile.
- juvenilia — (literature, plural only) Works produced during an artist's or author's youth.