9-letter words containing iv
- expencive — Archaic form of expensive.
- expensive — Costing a lot of money.
- expiative — That serves to expiate.
- expletive — An oath or swear word.
- explosive — Able or likely to shatter violently or burst apart, as when a bomb explodes.
- expulsive — Tending to expel or resulting in expulsion.
- extensive — Covering or affecting a large area.
- extorsive — acting or tending to extort
- extortive — Involving, constituting or accomplished by extortion.attention improve this ef if possible.
- extrusive — Relating to or denoting rock that has been extruded at the earth’s surface as lava or other volcanic deposits.
- exudative — (pathology) Of, pertaining to, or accompanied by exudation.
- factitive — noting or pertaining to verbs that express the idea of making or rendering in a certain way and that take a direct object and an additional word or group of words indicating the result of the process, as made in They made him king.
- factivity — (of a verb, adjective, or noun phrase) presupposing the truth of an embedded sentence that serves as complement, as realize in I didn't realize that he had left, which presupposes that it is true that he had left.
- festivals — Plural form of festival.
- festively — pertaining to or suitable for a feast or festival: festive decorations; a festive meal.
- festivity — a festive celebration or occasion.
- fictively — In a fictive manner.
- fishwives — Plural form of fishwife.
- five hole — the opening between a goaltender's parted legs.
- five wits — the five senses or mental faculties
- five-door — a car with five doors
- five-spot — a playing card or the upward face of a die bearing five pips; a domino one half of which bears five pips.
- five-star — having five stars to indicate rank or quality: a five-star general; a five-star brandy.
- five-year — happening over a period of five years
- fivepence — A monetary amount of five pence.
- fivepenny — noting a nail 1.75 inches (4.4 cm) long. Symbol: 5d.
- fivescore — (archaic) Hundred.
- fixatives — Plural form of fixative.
- fly river — a river in New Guinea, flowing SE from the central part to the Gulf of Papua, about 800 miles (1290 km) long.
- fly-drive — On a fly-drive holiday, you travel part of the way to your destination by aeroplane, and collect a hired car at the airport so that you can drive the rest of the way.
- forgetive — inventive; creative.
- forgiving — disposed to forgive; indicating forgiveness: a forgiving soul; a forgiving smile.
- formative — giving form or shape; forming; shaping; fashioning; molding: a formative process in manufacturing.
- 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.
- frivilous — Misspelling of frivolous.
- frivolent — (nonstandard) frivolous, trifling, silly.
- frivoling — to behave frivolously; trifle.
- frivolity — the quality or state of being frivolous: the frivolity of Mardi Gras.
- frivoller — Alt form frivoler.
- frivolous — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
- frugivore — any chiefly fruit-eating organism, as certain bats.
- fugitives — Plural form of fugitive.
- furnivall — Frederick James, 1825–1910, English philologist and editor.
- furtively — taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance.
- gallivant — to wander about, seeking pleasure or diversion; gad.
- gällivare — a town in N Sweden, within the Arctic Circle: iron mines. Pop: 19 191 (2004 est)
- 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.
- genitives — Plural form of genitive.
- george iv — 1762–1830, king of England 1820–30 (son of George III).