9-letter words containing n, e, r, v, s
- intervals — Plural form of interval.
- intrusive — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- inventors — Plural form of inventor.
- inverness — Also called Invernessshire [in-ver-nes-sheer, -sher] /ˌɪn vərˈnɛs ʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in NW Scotland.
- inversely — in an inverse manner.
- inversing — reversed in position, order, direction, or tendency.
- inversion — an act or instance of inverting.
- inversive — noting, pertaining to, or characterized by inversion.
- invertase — an enzyme, occurring in yeast and in the digestive juices of animals, that causes the inversion of cane sugar into invert sugar.
- inverters — Plural form of inverter.
- investors — Plural form of investor.
- investure — (obsolete) To clothe; to invest.
- lavenders — Plural form of lavender.
- levanters — Plural form of levanter.
- maneuvers — Plural form of maneuver.
- maneuvres — Plural form of maneuvre.
- mangroves — Plural form of mangrove.
- misgovern — to govern or manage badly.
- navicerts — Plural form of navicert.
- neckverse — a verse read to prove clergy membership, esp Psalm 51
- nerve gas — any of several poison gases, derived chiefly from phosphoric acid, that weaken or paralyze the nervous system, especially that part of the system controlling respiration.
- nerveless — without nervousness, as in emergencies; calm; collected.
- nerviness — The characteristic of being nervy.
- nervosity — the quality of being nervous; nervousness.
- nervously — highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive: to become nervous under stress.
- nivernais — a former province in central France. Capital: Nevers.
- nose over — to turn over on its nose
- observant — quick to notice or perceive; alert.
- observing — to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
- obversion — an act or instance of obverting.
- omniverse — A number of supposedly co-existing universes.
- omnivores — Plural form of omnivore.
- ovenbirds — Plural form of ovenbird.
- overlands — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- overshine — to outshine: One star seemed to overshine all others.
- overspend — to spend more than one can afford: Receiving a small inheritance, she began to overspend alarmingly.
- overstain — to stain too much
- overstand — overreach (def 13).
- overstink — to stink more than (something else)
- overswing — to swing too hard, hoping to apply more power.
- overtones — additional meanings or nuances
- pervasion — to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.
- prevision — foresight, foreknowledge, or prescience.
- ravenings — rapacious behaviour and activities
- resolvent — resolving; causing solution; solvent.
- revarnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
- revenuers — an agent of the U.S. Treasury Department, especially one whose responsibility is to enforce laws against illegal distilling or bootlegging of alcoholic liquor.
- reversion — the act of turning something the reverse way.
- revulsion — a strong feeling of repugnance, distaste, or dislike: Cruelty fills me with revulsion.
- scavenger — an animal or other organism that feeds on dead organic matter.