9-letter words containing o, r, a, i
- vainglory — excessive elation or pride over one's own achievements, abilities, etc.; boastful vanity.
- validator — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- vaporific — producing vapor; tending to form vapor.
- vaporings — instances of boasting
- vaporizer — a person or thing that vaporizes.
- variation — the act, process, or accident of varying in condition, character, or degree: Prices are subject to variation.
- varicosis — the formation of a varix or varices.
- varifocal — having a focus that can vary
- variolate — resembling smallpox, as a lesion.
- variolite — a rock embedded with varioles; a variolitic rock.
- varioloid — resembling smallpox.
- variolous — of or relating to smallpox.
- variously — of different kinds, as two or more things; differing one from another: Various experiments have not proved his theory.
- varsovian — a native or inhabitant of Warsaw.
- vectorial — Mathematics. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of which is proportional to the magnitude. Compare scalar (def 4). such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities obey the parallelogram law of addition. such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities are to transform in a particular way under changes of the coordinate system. any generalization of the above quantities.
- veracious — habitually speaking the truth; truthful; honest: a veracious witness.
- vernation — the arrangement of the foliage leaves within the bud.
- viareggio — a town and resort in W Italy, in Tuscany on the Ligurian Sea. Pop: 61 103 (2001)
- viatorial — pertaining to travelling
- vibration — the act of vibrating.
- vibratory — capable of or producing vibration.
- vicarious — performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment.
- victorian — of or relating to Queen Victoria or the period of her reign: Victorian poets.
- video art — an art form involving the creative exploitation of video technology to produce videotapes for viewing on a television screen.
- videogram — an audiovisual recording, as on a videotape or DVD
- virilocal — Anthropology. living with or located near the husband's father's group; patrilocal.
- vis major — force majeure.
- visionary — given to or characterized by fanciful, not presently workable, or unpractical ideas, views, or schemes: a visionary enthusiast.
- visitator — an official visitor
- voracious — craving or consuming large quantities of food: a voracious appetite.
- war widow — A war widow is a woman whose husband was killed while he was in the armed forces during a war.
- waterzooi — A type of Flemish stew, traditionally made with fish.
- wearisome — causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
- wild boar — a wild Old World swine, Sus scrofa, from which most of the domestic hogs are believed to be derived.
- wolframic — tungstic.
- womaniser — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of womanizer.
- womanizer — a philanderer.
- woodgrain — a material or finish that imitates the natural grain of wood in pattern, color, and sometimes texture.
- workalike — (computing) A computer capable of running software designed for another.
- wronskian — the determinant of order n associated with a set of n functions, in which the first row consists of the functions, the second row consists of the first derivatives of the functions, the third row consists of their second derivatives, and so on.
- xylorimba — A pitched percussion instrument corresponding to a xylophone with an extended range.
- zircalloy — an alloy of zirconium containing small amounts of tin, chromium, and nickel. It is used in pressurized-water reactors
- zirconian — (mineralogy) Describing minerals containing zirconium.
- zoiatrics — the science of veterinary surgery