9-letter words containing r, i, v, e, s
- silverius — Saint, died a.d. 537, pope 536–37.
- silverize — to cover, plate, or treat with silver.
- silvertip — grizzly bear.
- silvester — Sylvester II.
- sirventes — a Provençal form of verse or troubadour song, usually satirical
- slavering — to let saliva run from the mouth; slobber; drool.
- slipcover — a cover of cloth or other material for a piece of furniture, as an upholstered chair or sofa, made so as to be easily removable.
- slivering — a small, slender, often sharp piece, as of wood or glass, split, broken, or cut off, usually lengthwise or with the grain; splinter.
- sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- spillover — the act of spilling over.
- superhive — super (def 3).
- supervise — to oversee (a process, work, workers, etc.) during execution or performance; superintend; have the oversight and direction of.
- surveying — the science or scientific method of making surveys of land.
- swingover — a shift or transfer in attitude, opinion, or the like.
- televisor — an apparatus for transmitting or receiving television.
- timesaver — (of methods, devices, etc.) reducing the time spent or required to do something.
- tsavorite — a green variety of grossularite, found in Kenya in 1975 and used as a gem.
- undiverse — of a different kind, form, character, etc.; unlike: a wide range of diverse opinions.
- universal — of, relating to, or characteristic of all or the whole: universal experience.
- unrevised — not revised, improved, updated, or corrected
- unshriven — a past participle of shrive.
- usb drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
- varieties — the state of being varied or diversified: to give variety to a diet.
- variscite — a secondary mineral, hydrated phosphate of aluminum, Al(PO 4)⋅2H 2 O, occurring mainly as massive, bluish-green nodules: sometimes used as a gem.
- varisized — of several or various sizes: varisized patterns on a fabric.
- varnished — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
- vecturist — a person who collects transportation tokens as a hobby.
- veracious — habitually speaking the truth; truthful; honest: a veracious witness.
- verbalise — to express in words: He couldn't verbalize his feelings.
- verbalism — a verbal expression, as a word or phrase.
- verbalist — a person skilled in the use of words.
- verbiages — overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; wordiness; verbosity.
- verbosity — the state or quality of being verbose; superfluity of words; wordiness: His speeches were always marred by verbosity.
- verdigris — a green or bluish patina formed on copper, brass, or bronze surfaces exposed to the atmosphere for long periods of time, consisting principally of basic copper sulfate.
- verissimo — Érico Lopes [e-ri-koo law-puh s] /ˈɛ rɪ kʊ ˈlɔ pəs/ (Show IPA), 1905–75, Brazilian novelist.
- verminous — of the nature of or resembling vermin.
- versatile — capable of or adapted for turning easily from one to another of various tasks, fields of endeavor, etc.: a versatile writer.
- versifier — to relate, describe, or treat (something) in verse.
- versiform — changing in form
- 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.
- vesicular — of or relating to a vesicle or vesicles.
- victrixes — an ancient Roman epithet variously applied to Venus, Diana, and other goddesses.
- viosterol — a vitamin D preparation produced by the irradiation of ergosterol.
- viperfish — any of several deep-sea fishes of the family Chauliodontidae, having a large mouth and fanglike teeth, some species having light-emitting organs on their bodies.
- virescent — turning green.
- viscerate — to remove the bowels or intestines of
- visitress — a female visitor, esp one who visits the poor
- vorticose — vortical; whirling.
- voyeurism — the practice of obtaining sexual gratification by looking at sexual objects or acts, especially secretively.
- wingovers — Plural form of wingover.