9-letter words containing av
- cold wave — a sudden spell of low temperatures over a wide area, often following the passage of a cold front
- concaving — curved like a segment of the interior of a circle or hollow sphere; hollow and curved. Compare convex (def 1).
- concavity — the state or quality of being concave
- conclaves — A private meeting.
- craigavon — a district in central Northern Ireland, in Co Armagh. Pop: 57 685 (2001). Area: 279 sq km (108 sq miles)
- craveable — (especially of a food) having qualities that engender an intense desire for more: All too often, salt, sugar, fat, and “crunch” make a food craveable.
- cravening — Present participle of craven.
- cravingly — With longing or craving.
- crimewave — a period of increased criminal activity
- cry havoc — to give the signal for pillage and destruction
- d'avenant — Sir William, 1606–68, English dramatist and producer: poet laureate 1638–68.
- dataviews — Graphical user interface development software from V.I.Corporation, aimed at constructing platform-independent interactive views of dynamic data.
- davenport — a tall narrow desk with a slanted writing surface and drawers at the side
- davis cup — an annual international lawn tennis championship for men's teams
- davy lamp — an early safety lamp for miners, in which the flame was enclosed by wire gauze as a protection against firedamp
- delavigne — (Jean François) Casiˈmir (kaziˈmɪʀ) ; kȧzēmirˈ) 1793-1843; Fr. poet & playwright
- depraving — Present participle of deprave.
- depravity — Depravity is very dishonest or immoral behaviour.
- derzhavin — Gavril Romanovich [gah-vril roh-mah-nuh-vich;; Russian guh-vryil ruh-mah-nuh-vyich] /gɑˈvrɪl roʊˈmɑ nə vɪtʃ;; Russian gəˈvryɪl rəˈmɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1743–1816, Russian poet.
- disavowal — a disowning; repudiation; denial.
- disavowed — Deny any responsibility or support for.
- disfavors — Plural form of disfavor.
- disfavour — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- dissaving — The action of spending more than one has earned in a given period.
- dravidian — a family of languages, wholly distinct from Indo-European, spoken mostly in southern India and Sri Lanka and including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and, in Pakistan, Brahui.
- drawshave — drawknife.
- eavesdrip — the falling or dripping of rainwater from the eaves of a building
- eavesdrop — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- edge wave — a wave aligned at right angles to the shoreline.
- efavirenz — a nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor used with other medications to treat HIV infection in patients who have or do not have AIDS.
- endeavors — Try hard to do or achieve something.
- endeavour — Standard spelling of endeavor.
- engravers — Plural form of engraver.
- engravery — the art of an engraver
- engraving — A print made from an engraved plate, block, or other surface.
- enslavers — Plural form of enslaver.
- enslaving — Present participle of enslave.
- esclavage — A type of chain or bead necklace.
- excavated — Simple past tense and past participle of excavate.
- excavates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of excavate.
- excavator — A person who removes earth carefully and systematically from an archaeological site in order to find buried remains.
- extravert — Alternative spelling of extrovert.
- fairhaven — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- fava bean — a plant, Vicia faba, native to the Old World, bearing large pods containing edible seeds.
- faveolate — honeycombed; alveolate; pitted.
- favillous — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to ashes.
- favorable — characterized by approval or support; positive: a favorable report.
- favorably — characterized by approval or support; positive: a favorable report.
- favorance — a liking or preference: My family always had a favorance for farming.
- favorites — a person or thing regarded with special favor or preference: That song is an old favorite of mine.