9-letter words containing p, a, r, v, i
- privatize — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- privocrat — (esp in neo-conservative thought) a person who is not in favour of relinquishing individual freedoms in order to give the state more powers to combat terrorism
- proactive — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- probative — serving or designed for testing or trial.
- progravid — progestational (def 1).
- prolative — functioning to complete the predicate
- protoavis — a fossil bird of the genus Protoavis, from the Triassic Period, having a birdlike, partly toothless jaw structure, a tail and hind legs resembling those of the dinosaur, and the hollow bones and keellike breast that are characteristic of modern birds: the oldest known avian type, preceding the archaeopteryx by an estimated 75 million years.
- pulvillar — of or relating to a pulvillus
- purgative — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- reprieval — reprieve; respite.
- revamping — to renovate, redo, or revise: We've decided to revamp the entire show.
- rivalship — rivalry
- vampirish — a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.
- vampirism — belief in the existence of vampires.
- vampirize — to suck blood from
- vaporific — producing vapor; tending to form vapor.
- vaporings — instances of boasting
- vaporizer — a person or thing that vaporizes.
- varityper — a justifying typewriter used to produce copy in various type styles
- verapamil — a white crystalline powder, C 27 H 38 N 2 O 4 , used as a calcium blocker in the treatment of angina and certain arrhythmias.
- vibraharp — a musical percussion instrument that resembles a marimba and is played with mallets, but that has metal instead of wooden bars and has a set of electrically powered resonators for sustaining the tone or creating a vibrato.