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9-letter words containing c, e, r, v, i

  • receptive — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
  • recessive — tending to go, move, or slant back; receding.
  • reclusive — a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation.
  • reconvict — to convict (someone) again
  • recursive — recursion
  • redivorce — to divorce again
  • reductive — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
  • refective — of or relating to refection; refreshing
  • rejective — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
  • reservice — the act of reserving food that has been served previously
  • revictual — to victual or provide with food again
  • revoicing — to voice again or in return; echo.
  • rockville — a city in central Maryland.
  • scrivener — scribe1 (defs 1, 2).
  • secretive — secretory.
  • servicing — an act of helpful activity; help; aid: to do someone a service.
  • slipcover — a cover of cloth or other material for a piece of furniture, as an upholstered chair or sofa, made so as to be easily removable.
  • tick over — If an engine is ticking over, it is running at a low speed or rate, for example when it is switched on but you are not actually using it.
  • tzarevich — czarevitch.
  • varicella — chickenpox.
  • variscite — a secondary mineral, hydrated phosphate of aluminum, Al(PO 4)⋅2H 2 O, occurring mainly as massive, bluish-green nodules: sometimes used as a gem.
  • vectorial — Mathematics. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of which is proportional to the magnitude. Compare scalar (def 4). such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities obey the parallelogram law of addition. such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities are to transform in a particular way under changes of the coordinate system. any generalization of the above quantities.
  • vectoring — the act of vectoring or guiding aircraft using vectors
  • vectorize — (of computing graphics) to convert from a bitmap representation to a vector representation
  • vecturist — a person who collects transportation tokens as a hobby.
  • vehicular — of, relating to, or for vehicles: a vehicular tunnel.
  • ventricle — Zoology. any of various hollow organs or parts in an animal body.
  • veracious — habitually speaking the truth; truthful; honest: a veracious witness.
  • verbicide — the willful distortion or depreciation of the original meaning of a word.
  • veridical — truthful; veracious.
  • vermicide — a substance or agent used to kill worms, especially a drug used to kill parasitic intestinal worms.
  • vermicule — a small, wormlike structure.
  • verticity — the ability to turn
  • vesicular — of or relating to a vesicle or vesicles.
  • vicariate — the office or authority of a vicar.
  • vice girl — a woman who works as a prostitute
  • vice ring — a group of people involved in immoral illegal activities, especially pornography, prostitution, or drugs
  • vicegeral — of or relating to a vicegerent or a vicegerent's position.
  • viceregal — of or relating to a viceroy.
  • vicereine — the wife of a viceroy.
  • victorine — a canon regular of the Order of St. Victor, founded in Paris, France, in 1110, which was famous for its learning and influence in the Middle Ages, and which became extinct during the French Revolution.
  • victrixes — an ancient Roman epithet variously applied to Venus, Diana, and other goddesses.
  • victualer — a person who furnishes victuals, especially a sutler.
  • vint cerf — (person)   (Vinton G. Cerf) The co-inventor with Bob Kahn of the Internet and its base protocol, TCP/IP. Like Jon Postel, he was crucial in the development of many higher-level protocols, and has written several dozen RFCs since the late 1960s. Vinton Cerf is senior vice president of Internet Architecture and Technology for MCI WorldCom. His team of architects and engineers design advanced Internet frameworks for delivering a combination of data, information, voice and video services for business and consumer use. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his partner, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet. Prior to rejoining MCI in 1994, Cerf was vice president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI). As vice president of MCI Digital Information Services from 1982-1986, he led the engineering of MCI Mail, the first commercial e-mail service to be connected to the Internet. During his tenure from 1976-1982 with the U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Cerf played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet and security technologies. Cerf served as founding president of the Internet Society from 1992-1995 and is currently chairman of the Board. Cerf is a member of the U.S. Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) and the Advisory Committee for Telecommunications (ACT) in Ireland. Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet. In December 1994, People magazine identified Cerf as one of that year's "25 Most Intriguing People." In addition to his work on behalf of MCI and the Internet, Cerf serves as technical advisor to production for "Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict," the number one television show in first-run syndication. He also made a special guest appearance in May 1998. Cerf also holds an appointment as distinguished visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he is working on the design of an interplanetary Internet. Cerf holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UCLA. He also holds honorary Doctorate degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich; Lulea University of Technology, Sweden; University of the Balearic Islands, Palma; Capitol College and Gettysburg College.
  • virescent — turning green.
  • virulence — quality of being virulent.
  • virulency — quality of being virulent.
  • viscerate — to remove the bowels or intestines of
  • volucrine — relating to birds
  • vorticose — vortical; whirling.
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