9-letter words containing d, r, a, v
- derivated — Simple past tense and past participle of derivate.
- derivates — Plural form of derivate.
- 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.
- deviatory — Tending to deviate.
- devil ray — manta.
- devil-ray — manta.
- disfavors — Plural form of disfavor.
- disfavour — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- disproval — The act of disproving; disproof.
- divinator — a diviner
- dna virus — any virus containing DNA.
- 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.
- driveable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- driveaway — the delivery of a car to a buyer or to a specified destination by means of a hired driver.
- driveways — Plural form of driveway.
- duumviral — relating to duumvirs
- eavesdrip — the falling or dripping of rainwater from the eaves of a building
- eavesdrop — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- edward iv — 1442–83, king of England 1461–70, 1471–1483: 1st king of the house of York.
- edward vi — 1537–53, king of England 1547–53 (son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour).
- endeavors — Try hard to do or achieve something.
- endeavour — Standard spelling of endeavor.
- enervated — Cause (someone) to feel drained of energy or vitality; weaken.
- everglade — A marshy tract of land that is mostly under water and covered with tall grass.
- flavoured — Having a specific taste, often due to the addition of flavouring.
- grandview — a town in W Missouri.
- gravelled — Simple past tense and past participle of gravel.
- gravesend — a seaport in NW Kent, in SE England, on the Thames River: incorporated into Gravesham 1974.
- graveside — the area beside a grave.
- graveward — moving towards the grave or death
- graveyard — a burial ground, often associated with smaller rural churches, as distinct from a larger urban or public cemetery.
- gravidity — pregnant1 (def 1).
- hadrian v — died 1276, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1276.
- hand over — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- handovers — Plural form of handover.
- hardcover — a book bound in cloth, leather, or the like, over stiff material: Hardcovers are more durable than paperbacks.
- harddrive — Alternative form of hard drive.
- harvested — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- haverford — a township in SE Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.
- havildars — Plural form of havildar.
- hydrovane — a vane on a seaplane conferring stability on water (a sponson) or facilitating take off (a hydrofoil)
- 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.
- jaz drive — (hardware, storage) Iomega Corporation's drive which takes removable one or two gigabyte disk cartridges which contain conventional hard disks. Internal and external drives are available claiming an average transfer rate of 330 megabytes per minute - though that is dependent on the SCSI adapter, the parallel port adapter is unlikely to reach anything like this speed. The Jaz drive was the successor to the company's more establistablished Zip Drive.
- kirovabad — a city in NW Azerbaijan.
- landgrave — (in medieval Germany) a count having jurisdiction over a large territory.
- larvacide — Alternative spelling of larvicide.
- larvicide — an agent for killing larvae.