9-letter words containing g, r, a, v, i
- pit grave — a shallow grave hollowed out of a bed of rock or the floor of a tholos.
- progravid — progestational (def 1).
- purgative — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- quavering — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
- ravelling — to disentangle or unravel the threads or fibers of (a woven or knitted fabric, rope, etc.).
- ravenings — rapacious behaviour and activities
- ravigotte — a cold French sauce or dressing for salad containing mixed chopped herbs such as tarragon and chives
- ravishing — extremely beautiful or attractive; enchanting; entrancing.
- revamping — to renovate, redo, or revise: We've decided to revamp the entire show.
- revealing — to make known; disclose; divulge: to reveal a secret.
- slavering — to let saliva run from the mouth; slobber; drool.
- togavirus — a virus belonging to the Togaviridae family and which usually affects birds and mammals rather than humans
- traveling — activity: journeying
- unvarying — to change or alter, as in form, appearance, character, or substance: to vary one's methods.
- vagarious — characterized by vagaries; erratic; capricious: a vagarious foreign policy.
- vainglory — excessive elation or pride over one's own achievements, abilities, etc.; boastful vanity.
- vaporings — instances of boasting
- varangian — any of the Northmen who, under Rurik, established a dynasty in Russia in the 9th century.
- variegate — to make varied in appearance, as by adding different colors.
- varyingly — to change or alter, as in form, appearance, character, or substance: to vary one's methods.
- verbiages — overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; wordiness; verbosity.
- vergilian — pertaining to or characteristic of the poet Vergil.
- viareggio — a town and resort in W Italy, in Tuscany on the Ligurian Sea. Pop: 61 103 (2001)
- vicegeral — of or relating to a vicegerent or a vicegerent's position.
- viceregal — of or relating to a viceroy.
- videogram — an audiovisual recording, as on a videotape or DVD
- villagery — villages.
- virgilian — pertaining to or characteristic of the poet Vergil.
- virginals — Often, virginals. a rectangular harpsichord with the strings stretched parallel to the keyboard, the earlier types placed on a table: popular in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- virginian — of or relating to the state of Virginia.
- virgulate — rod-shaped; virgate.
- vraicking — the act of gathering vraic
- vulgarian — a vulgar person, especially one whose vulgarity is the more conspicuous because of wealth, prominence, or pretensions to good breeding.
- vulgarism — vulgar behavior or character; vulgarity.
- vulgarity — the state or quality of being vulgar: the vulgarity of his remark.
- vulgarize — to make vulgar or coarse; lower; debase: to vulgarize standards of behavior.
- waivering — Misspelling of wavering.