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9-letter words containing o, v, e, r, a

  • rave hook — a hooklike tool for reaming old oakum out of seams in planking.
  • ravigotte — a cold French sauce or dressing for salad containing mixed chopped herbs such as tarragon and chives
  • reapprove — to approve (something) again
  • removable — that may be removed.
  • revelator — a person who makes a revelation.
  • reviolate — to violate again
  • revocable — that may be revoked.
  • revocably — that may be revoked.
  • revokable — that may be revoked.
  • riverboat — any shallow-draft boat used on rivers.
  • rounceval — a variety of large pea
  • rovaniemi — a city in N Finland, near the Arctic Circle.
  • ruvo kale — broccoli rabe.
  • sail-over — a repetition of an indecisive or interrupted run of a racing yacht.
  • salvatore — a male given name.
  • savouries — pleasant or agreeable in taste or smell: a savory aroma.
  • sea rover — a pirate.
  • 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.
  • sparkover — spark1 (def 2).
  • standover — practising or relating to acts of threatening, intimidating or extorting money from people by force
  • stay over — spend the night
  • 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.
  • take over — the act of taking.
  • talk over — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
  • tsavorite — a green variety of grossularite, found in Kenya in 1975 and used as a gem.
  • unfavored — regarded or treated with preference or partiality: Her beauty made her the favored child.
  • uvarovite — Mineralogy. a variety of garnet colored emerald-green by the presence of chromium.
  • van doren — Carl, 1885–1950, U.S. writer.
  • van horne — Sir William (Cornelius). 1843–1915, Canadian railway executive, born in the US; oversaw the completion of the line from Port Moody to Montreal on the Canadian Pacific Railway
  • vancouver — George, 1758–98, English explorer.
  • vaporetto — a motorboat used as a passenger bus along a canal in Venice, Italy.
  • vaporizer — a person or thing that vaporizes.
  • vaporware — Computer Slang. a product, especially software, that is promoted or marketed while it is still in development and that may never be produced.
  • variolate — resembling smallpox, as a lesion.
  • variolite — a rock embedded with varioles; a variolitic rock.
  • 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.
  • veracious — habitually speaking the truth; truthful; honest: a veracious witness.
  • vernation — the arrangement of the foliage leaves within the bud.
  • verrazano — Giovanni da [jaw-vahn-nee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni dɑ/ (Show IPA), c1480–1527? Italian navigator and explorer.
  • viareggio — a town and resort in W Italy, in Tuscany on the Ligurian Sea. Pop: 61 103 (2001)
  • 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
  • voorkamer — the front room, esp of a Cape Dutch house or farmhouse
  • voyager 1 — a US spacecraft that visited Jupiter (1979) and Saturn (1980); it left the solar system and entered interstellar space in 2012
  • voyager 2 — a US spacecraft that visited Jupiter (1979) and Saturn (1981) and made the first flyby of Uranus (1986) and Neptune (1989)
  • wakeovers — Plural form of wakeover.
  • walk over — If someone walks over you, they treat you very badly.
  • walkovers — Plural form of walkover.
  • warm over — having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
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