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

  • overpaint — to cover over with paint
  • overplaid — a plaid pattern superimposed on another plaid
  • overstain — to stain too much
  • overtrain — to train excessively
  • oviparity — producing eggs that mature and hatch after being expelled from the body, as birds, most reptiles and fishes, and the monotremes.
  • oviparous — producing eggs that mature and hatch after being expelled from the body, as birds, most reptiles and fishes, and the monotremes.
  • oviraptor — a bipedal dinosaur of the late Cretaceous period, having a toothless jaw and long forelimbs with clawed fingers
  • par avion — by plane (used especially as a designation on matter to be sent by airmail).
  • paravidya — transcendental knowledge.
  • parkville — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
  • partitive — serving to divide into parts.
  • parvoline — any of various isomeric ptomaines found in liquid derived from decaying animal matter or bituminous coals
  • pavarotti — Luciano [loo-chee-ah-noh;; Italian loo-chah-naw] /ˌlu tʃiˈɑ noʊ;; Italian luˈtʃɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1935–2007, Italian operatic tenor.
  • peiraievs — Greek name of Piraeus.
  • percivale — a knight who is allowed to see the Holy Grail
  • perovskia — a member of the Perovskia genus of aromatic plant native to central Asia, esp Russian sage, Perovskia atriplicifolia
  • pervading — omnipresent; felt everywhere
  • 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.
  • pit grave — a shallow grave hollowed out of a bed of rock or the floor of a tholos.
  • port vila — the capital of Vanuatu, on the island of Efate. Pop: 44 040 (2009)
  • portative — capable of being carried; portable.
  • preactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
  • prevailed — to be widespread or current; exist everywhere or generally: Silence prevailed along the funeral route.
  • prevailer — to be widespread or current; exist everywhere or generally: Silence prevailed along the funeral route.
  • previable — occurring before a fetus has developed enough to survive outside the uterus
  • primaeval — of or relating to the first age or ages, especially of the world: primeval forms of life.
  • primavera — a central American tree, Cybistax donnell-smithii, of the bignonia family, having showy, tubular yellow flowers.
  • 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.
  • privateer — an armed ship that is privately owned and manned, commissioned by a government to fight or harass enemy ships.
  • privately — belonging to some particular person: private property.
  • privation — lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life: His life of privation began to affect his health.
  • 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
  • privative — causing, or tending to cause, deprivation.
  • privatize — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
  • privocrat — (esp in neo-conservative thought) a person who is not in favour of relinquishing individual freedoms in order to give the state more powers to combat terrorism
  • proactive — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • probative — serving or designed for testing or trial.
  • progravid — progestational (def 1).
  • prolative — functioning to complete the predicate
  • 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.
  • pulvillar — of or relating to a pulvillus
  • purgative — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
  • quadrivia — Plural form of quadrivium.
  • quavering — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
  • radiative — giving off radiation.
  • radio van — a van containing equipment for transmitting and receiving radio signals
  • ram drive — RAM disk
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