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9-letter words containing a, v, i, r, s

  • havildars — Plural form of havildar.
  • indeavors — Plural form of indeavor.
  • intervals — Plural form of interval.
  • invertase — an enzyme, occurring in yeast and in the digestive juices of animals, that causes the inversion of cane sugar into invert sugar.
  • karsavina — Tamara [tuh-mah-ruh] /təˈmɑ rə/ (Show IPA), 1885–1978, Russian dancer.
  • lavoisier — Antoine Laurent [ahn-twan loh-rahn] /ɑ̃ˈtwan loʊˈrɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1743–94, French scientist: pioneer in the field of chemistry.
  • lawgivers — Plural form of lawgiver.
  • lifesaver — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
  • livraison — one of the numbers of a book published in parts
  • maravedis — Plural form of maravedi.
  • mavericks — Plural form of maverick.
  • navicerts — Plural form of navicert.
  • nivernais — a former province in central France. Capital: Nevers.
  • overstain — to stain too much
  • oviparous — producing eggs that mature and hatch after being expelled from the body, as birds, most reptiles and fishes, and the monotremes.
  • peiraievs — Greek name of Piraeus.
  • perovskia — a member of the Perovskia genus of aromatic plant native to central Asia, esp Russian sage, Perovskia atriplicifolia
  • pervasion — to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.
  • pervasive — spread throughout: The corruption is so pervasive that it is accepted as the way to do business.
  • privacies — the state of being apart from other people or concealed from their view; solitude; seclusion: Please leave the room and give me some privacy.
  • privatise — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
  • privatism — concern with or pursuit of one's personal or family interests, welfare, or ideals to the exclusion of broader social issues or relationships.
  • privatist — a person who exhibits a lack of concern for public life
  • protoavis — a fossil bird of the genus Protoavis, from the Triassic Period, having a birdlike, partly toothless jaw structure, a tail and hind legs resembling those of the dinosaur, and the hollow bones and keellike breast that are characteristic of modern birds: the oldest known avian type, preceding the archaeopteryx by an estimated 75 million years.
  • rara avis — a rare person or thing; rarity.
  • ravenings — rapacious behaviour and activities
  • ravishing — extremely beautiful or attractive; enchanting; entrancing.
  • relatives — a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
  • revarnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
  • revisable — to amend or alter: to revise one's opinion.
  • rivalless — without rivals
  • rivalrous — characterized by rivalry; competitive: the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.
  • rivalship — rivalry
  • rna virus — any virus containing RNA; retrovirus.
  • rotavirus — a double-stranded RNA virus of the genus Rotavirus, family Reoviridae, that is a major cause of infant diarrhea.
  • sail-over — a repetition of an indecisive or interrupted run of a racing yacht.
  • salivator — any agent that causes salivation.
  • sarasvati — the Hindu goddess of learning and the arts.
  • savouries — pleasant or agreeable in taste or smell: a savory aroma.
  • slavering — to let saliva run from the mouth; slobber; drool.
  • timesaver — (of methods, devices, etc.) reducing the time spent or required to do something.
  • togavirus — a virus belonging to the Togaviridae family and which usually affects birds and mammals rather than humans
  • tovarisch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
  • tsavorite — a green variety of grossularite, found in Kenya in 1975 and used as a gem.
  • universal — of, relating to, or characteristic of all or the whole: universal experience.
  • vagarious — characterized by vagaries; erratic; capricious: a vagarious foreign policy.
  • vampirish — a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.
  • vampirism — belief in the existence of vampires.
  • vaporings — instances of boasting
  • varicosis — the formation of a varix or varices.
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