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9-letter words containing n, e, r, v

  • venireman — a person summoned under a venire facias.
  • veniremen — a person summoned under a venire facias.
  • ventrally — of or relating to the venter or belly; abdominal.
  • ventricle — Zoology. any of various hollow organs or parts in an animal body.
  • venturing — an undertaking involving uncertainty as to the outcome, especially a risky or dangerous one: a mountain-climbing venture.
  • venturous — venturesome.
  • venusberg — a mountain in central Germany in the caverns of which, according to medieval legend, Venus held court.
  • verandaed — having a veranda: a verandaed house.
  • veratrine — a white or grayish-white, slightly water-soluble, poisonous mixture of alkaloids obtained by extraction from the seeds of the sabadilla: formerly used in medicine as a counterirritant in the treatment of rheumatism and neuralgia.
  • verbarian — an inventor of words
  • vergilian — pertaining to or characteristic of the poet Vergil.
  • verhaeren — Émile. 1855–1916, Belgian poet, writing in French. His works include the collections Les Flamandes (1883), Les Soirs (1887), and Les Visages de la Vie (1899)
  • verifying — to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate: Events verified his prediction.
  • vermilion — a town in N Ohio.
  • verminate — to become infested with vermin, especially parasitic vermin.
  • verminous — of the nature of or resembling vermin.
  • vermonter — a native or inhabitant of Vermont.
  • vernality — the quality or state of being vernal
  • vernalize — to shorten the growth period of (a plant) by chilling or other special treatment of it, its seeds, or its bulbs.
  • vernation — the arrangement of the foliage leaves within the bud.
  • veronique — (of a dish) served in a white sauce and garnished with seedless white grapes
  • verrazano — Giovanni da [jaw-vahn-nee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni dɑ/ (Show IPA), c1480–1527? Italian navigator and explorer.
  • version 7 — (operating system)   (V7) The unsupported release of Unix ancestral to all current commercial versions. Brian Kernighan announced the release of V7 in summer 1979, at the Unix User's Group meeting in Toronto. Before the release of the POSIX/SVID standards, V7's features were often treated as a Unix portability baseline. Some old-timers impatient with commercialisation and kernel bloat still maintain that V7 was the Last True Unix. See BSD, USG Unix, System V.
  • vertumnus — a Roman god of gardens, orchards, and seasonal change
  • vestryman — a member of a church vestry.
  • vetturino — a person who drives a vettura
  • vice ring — a group of people involved in immoral illegal activities, especially pornography, prostitution, or drugs
  • vicereine — the wife of a viceroy.
  • victorine — a canon regular of the Order of St. Victor, founded in Paris, France, in 1110, which was famous for its learning and influence in the Middle Ages, and which became extinct during the French Revolution.
  • videoporn — pornographic movies available on videocassette or optical disk, on the Internet, or on subscription television.
  • viewrinal — a urinal with a small screen at eye level which displays advertisements
  • vignetter — Photography. a device for blurring the edges of a photographic image so as to fade them into a plain surrounding area.
  • vin rouge — red wine.
  • vinometer — a hydrometer for measuring the percentage of alcohol in wine.
  • vint cerf — (person)   (Vinton G. Cerf) The co-inventor with Bob Kahn of the Internet and its base protocol, TCP/IP. Like Jon Postel, he was crucial in the development of many higher-level protocols, and has written several dozen RFCs since the late 1960s. Vinton Cerf is senior vice president of Internet Architecture and Technology for MCI WorldCom. His team of architects and engineers design advanced Internet frameworks for delivering a combination of data, information, voice and video services for business and consumer use. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his partner, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet. Prior to rejoining MCI in 1994, Cerf was vice president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI). As vice president of MCI Digital Information Services from 1982-1986, he led the engineering of MCI Mail, the first commercial e-mail service to be connected to the Internet. During his tenure from 1976-1982 with the U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Cerf played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet and security technologies. Cerf served as founding president of the Internet Society from 1992-1995 and is currently chairman of the Board. Cerf is a member of the U.S. Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) and the Advisory Committee for Telecommunications (ACT) in Ireland. Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet. In December 1994, People magazine identified Cerf as one of that year's "25 Most Intriguing People." In addition to his work on behalf of MCI and the Internet, Cerf serves as technical advisor to production for "Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict," the number one television show in first-run syndication. He also made a special guest appearance in May 1998. Cerf also holds an appointment as distinguished visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he is working on the design of an interplanetary Internet. Cerf holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UCLA. He also holds honorary Doctorate degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich; Lulea University of Technology, Sweden; University of the Balearic Islands, Palma; Capitol College and Gettysburg College.
  • vireonine — a vireo, or any bird of the Vireonidae family
  • virescent — turning green.
  • virulence — quality of being virulent.
  • virulency — quality of being virulent.
  • vivandier — a male sutler
  • viverrine — of or relating to the Viverridae, a family of small carnivorous mammals including the civets, genets, palm cats, etc.
  • volucrine — relating to birds
  • volunteer — a person who voluntarily offers himself or herself for a service or undertaking.
  • vulnerary — used to promote the healing of wounds, as herbs or other remedies.
  • vulnerate — to harm or wound
  • vulturine — of, relating to, or characteristic of a vulture.
  • waivering — Misspelling of wavering.
  • wavefront — a surface, real or imaginary, that is the locus of all adjacent points at which the phase of oscillation is the same.
  • windhover — the kestrel, Falco tinnunculus.
  • wingovers — Plural form of wingover.
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