9-letter words containing a, v, i, r
- 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.
- furnivall — Frederick James, 1825–1910, English philologist and editor.
- gain over — persuade
- gällivare — a town in N Sweden, within the Arctic Circle: iron mines. Pop: 19 191 (2004 est)
- gilravage — riotous festivity
- grandview — a town in W Missouri.
- granivore — Any animal that eats seeds as the main part of its diet.
- granville — Earl of, Carteret, John.
- grape ivy — a hairy vine, Cissus rhombifolia, native to tropical America, having glossy trifoliate leaves and often cultivated as a houseplant.
- grapevine — a town in N Texas.
- gravelike — resembling a grave
- graveling — small stones and pebbles, or a mixture of these with sand.
- graveside — the area beside a grave.
- gravesite — the site of a grave or graves; a place of burial.
- gravidity — pregnant1 (def 1).
- gravitate — to move or tend to move under the influence of gravitational force.
- gravities — Plural form of gravity.
- gravitino — the hypothetical fermionic partner of the graviton, predicted by the supergravity extension of Einstein's theory of general relativity.
- gravitons — Plural form of graviton.
- grevillea — An evergreen tree or shrub bearing conspicuous flowers that lack petals, most kinds of which are native to Australia.
- grievance — a wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress: Inequitable taxation is the chief grievance.
- grievants — Plural form of grievant.
- grivation — grid variation.
- guevarist — a supporter of the revolutionary theories and tactics of Ernesto Guevara.
- hadrian v — died 1276, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1276.
- hairweave — the process of hairweaving.
- han river — a dynasty in China, 206 b.c.–a.d. 220, with an interregnum, a.d. 9–25: characterized by consolidation of the centralized imperial state and territorial expansion. Compare Earlier Han, Later Han.
- harddrive — Alternative form of hard drive.
- harrovian — of or relating to Harrow.
- hauterive — a town in SE Quebec, in E Canada.
- haverhill — a city in NE Massachusetts, on the Merrimack River.
- haversian — designating or of the canals through which blood vessels and connective tissue pass in bone
- haversine — one half the versed sine of a given angle or arc.
- havildars — Plural form of havildar.
- herbivora — grass-eating animals collectively
- hortative — hortatory.
- in favour — If you are in favour of something, you support it and think that it is a good thing.
- incurvate — curved, especially inward.
- indeavors — Plural form of indeavor.
- indeavour — Archaic form of endeavour.
- indinavir — (pharmaceutical drug) An anti-retroviral drug of the protease inhibitor class that is used in to treat HIV infected patients.
- innervate — to communicate nervous energy to; stimulate through nerves.
- innovator — to introduce something new; make changes in anything established.
- intervale — a low-lying tract of land along a river.
- intervals — Plural form of interval.
- invariant — unvarying; invariable; constant.
- inveraray — a town in W Scotland, in Argyll and Bute: Inveraray Castle is the seat of the Dukes of Argyll. Pop: about 700 (2001)
- invertase — an enzyme, occurring in yeast and in the digestive juices of animals, that causes the inversion of cane sugar into invert sugar.
- invocator — invoke.