9-letter words containing n, a, r, v
- cravingly — With longing or craving.
- curvation — the action of curving or bending
- dan river — a river in S Virginia and N North Carolina, flowing S and E to the Roanoke River. 180 miles (290 km) long.
- davenport — a tall narrow desk with a slanted writing surface and drawers at the side
- de varona — Donna, born 1947, U.S. swimmer.
- denervate — to deprive (a tissue or organ) of its nerve supply
- depraving — Present participle of deprave.
- 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.
- 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.
- efavirenz — a nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor used with other medications to treat HIV infection in patients who have or do not have AIDS.
- endeavors — Try hard to do or achieve something.
- endeavour — Standard spelling of endeavor.
- enervated — Cause (someone) to feel drained of energy or vitality; weaken.
- enervates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enervate.
- engravers — Plural form of engraver.
- engravery — the art of an engraver
- engraving — A print made from an engraved plate, block, or other surface.
- enslavers — Plural form of enslaver.
- eventrate — to open the belly of
- eviternal — (obsolete) eternal; everlasting.
- fairhaven — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- favorance — a liking or preference: My family always had a favorance for farming.
- favouring — Present participle of favour.
- flavoring — taste, especially the distinctive taste of something as it is experienced in the mouth.
- fortran v — Preliminary work on adding character handling to Fortran by IBM ca. 1962. This name as never really used.
- furnivall — Frederick James, 1825–1910, English philologist and editor.
- gain over — persuade
- goncharov — Ivan Alexandrovich [ih-vahn al-ig-zan-druh-vich,, -zahn-,, ahy-vuh n;; Russian ee-vahn uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /ɪˈvɑn ˌæl ɪgˈzæn drə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-,, ˈaɪ vən;; Russian iˈvɑn ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1812–91, Russian novelist.
- governall — government
- grandview — a town in W Missouri.
- granivore — Any animal that eats seeds as the main part of its diet.
- granville — Earl of, Carteret, John.
- grapevine — a town in N Texas.
- gravamens — Plural form of gravamen.
- graveling — small stones and pebbles, or a mixture of these with sand.
- graveness — serious or solemn; sober: a grave person; grave thoughts.
- gravesend — a seaport in NW Kent, in SE England, on the Thames River: incorporated into Gravesham 1974.
- 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.
- 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.
- hadrian v — died 1276, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1276.
- 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.
- 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.
- hang over — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hangovers — Plural form of hangover.