9-letter words containing n, e, r, v
- receiving — to take into one's possession (something offered or delivered): to receive many gifts.
- reconvene — to come together or assemble, usually for some public purpose.
- reconvert — to convert again.
- reconvict — to convict (someone) again
- reinvolve — to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours and hard work.
- relevance — the condition of being relevant, or connected with the matter at hand: Some traditional institutions of the media lack relevance in this digital age.
- relevancy — the condition of being relevant, or connected with the matter at hand: Some traditional institutions of the media lack relevance in this digital age.
- relieving — to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.).
- reproving — If you give someone a reproving look or speak in a reproving voice, you show or say that you think they have behaved in a wrong or foolish way.
- resolvent — resolving; causing solution; solvent.
- retentive — tending or serving to retain something.
- revalenta — a mixture of flour made from lentils and barley
- revamping — to renovate, redo, or revise: We've decided to revamp the entire show.
- 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.
- revealing — to make known; disclose; divulge: to reveal a secret.
- revelling — to take great pleasure or delight (usually followed by in): to revel in luxury.
- revengive — vengeful, seeking revenge
- 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.
- reverence — a feeling or attitude of deep respect tinged with awe; veneration.
- reversion — the act of turning something the reverse way.
- revertant — a gene, organism, or strain that has undergone a back mutation.
- revetment — a facing of masonry or the like, especially for protecting an embankment.
- revoicing — to voice again or in return; echo.
- revolting — disgusting; repulsive: a revolting sight.
- revolving — that revolves: a revolving table top.
- revulsion — a strong feeling of repugnance, distaste, or dislike: Cruelty fills me with revulsion.
- riverbank — the slopes bordering a river.
- rivetting — a metal pin for passing through holes in two or more plates or pieces to hold them together, usually made with a head at one end, the other end being hammered into a head after insertion.
- rounceval — a variety of large pea
- rovaniemi — a city in N Finland, near the Arctic Circle.
- scavenger — an animal or other organism that feeds on dead organic matter.
- scrivener — scribe1 (defs 1, 2).
- sea raven — a large marine fish of the genus Hemitripterus, as H. americanus, common on the northern Atlantic coast of America.
- servantry — servants collectively, esp the servants of a particular establishment as a body
- servicing — an act of helpful activity; help; aid: to do someone a service.
- sevenbark — wild hydrangea.
- severance — the act of severing or the state of being severed.
- severinus — died a.d. 640, pope 640.
- shivering — to shake or tremble with cold, fear, excitement, etc.
- sign over — a token; indication.
- silvering — Chemistry. a white, ductile metallic element, used for making mirrors, coins, ornaments, table utensils, photographic chemicals, conductors, etc. Symbol: Ag; atomic weight: 107.870; atomic number: 47; specific gravity: 10.5 at 20°C.
- sirventes — a Provençal form of verse or troubadour song, usually satirical
- slavering — to let saliva run from the mouth; slobber; drool.
- slivering — a small, slender, often sharp piece, as of wood or glass, split, broken, or cut off, usually lengthwise or with the grain; splinter.
- sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- standover — practising or relating to acts of threatening, intimidating or extorting money from people by force
- stavanger — a seaport in SW Norway.
- supernova — the explosion of a star, possibly caused by gravitational collapse, during which the star's luminosity increases by as much as 20 magnitudes and most of the star's mass is blown away at very high velocity, sometimes leaving behind an extremely dense core.
- supervene — to take place or occur as something additional or extraneous (sometimes followed by on or upon).
- surveying — the science or scientific method of making surveys of land.