9-letter words containing o, t, a, v, r
- provocant — a person who deliberately behaves controversially to provoke argument or other strong reactions
- ravigotte — a cold French sauce or dressing for salad containing mixed chopped herbs such as tarragon and chives
- revelator — a person who makes a revelation.
- reviolate — to violate again
- ritonavir — a type of anti-viral drug used to treat HIV infection and AIDS
- riverboat — any shallow-draft boat used on rivers.
- rotavator — a type of machine with rotating blades that break up soil
- rotavirus — a double-stranded RNA virus of the genus Rotavirus, family Reoviridae, that is a major cause of infant diarrhea.
- salivator — any agent that causes salivation.
- salvatore — a male given name.
- salvatory — a place for storing something safely
- shortwave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
- slavocrat — (in the US before the Civil War) a slaveholder, or an advocate of slavery
- standover — practising or relating to acts of threatening, intimidating or extorting money from people by force
- stavropol — a territory of the Russian Federation in Europe, N of the Caucasus. 29,600 sq. mi. (76,960 sq. km).
- stay over — spend the night
- take over — the act of taking.
- talk over — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- tarkovsky — Andrei (ˈɑndrej). 1932–86, Soviet film director, whose films include Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1971), Nostalgia (1983), and The Sacrifice (1986)
- thorshavn — a city in and the capital of the Faeroe Islands, in the N Atlantic.
- togavirus — a virus belonging to the Togaviridae family and which usually affects birds and mammals rather than humans
- tovarisch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- tsavorite — a green variety of grossularite, found in Kenya in 1975 and used as a gem.
- uvarovite — Mineralogy. a variety of garnet colored emerald-green by the presence of chromium.
- validator — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- vaporetto — a motorboat used as a passenger bus along a canal in Venice, Italy.
- variation — the act, process, or accident of varying in condition, character, or degree: Prices are subject to variation.
- variolate — resembling smallpox, as a lesion.
- variolite — a rock embedded with varioles; a variolitic rock.
- vasomotor — regulating the diameter of blood vessels, as certain nerves.
- 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.
- venerator — to regard or treat with reverence; revere.
- vernation — the arrangement of the foliage leaves within the bud.
- viatorial — pertaining to travelling
- vibration — the act of vibrating.
- vibratory — capable of or producing vibration.
- 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.
- visitator — an official visitor
- voluntary — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
- wavefront — a surface, real or imaginary, that is the locus of all adjacent points at which the phase of oscillation is the same.