9-letter words containing r, v
- bereaving — to deprive and make desolate, especially by death (usually followed by of): Illness bereaved them of their mother.
- beriosova — Svetlana (svɪtˈlanə). 1932–98, British ballet dancer, born in Lithuania
- bev curls — long locks of hair, considered to be typical of a certain kind of unfashionable male
- beveridge — William Henry, 1st Baron Beveridge. 1879–1963, British economist, whose Report on Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942) formed the basis of social-security legislation in Britain
- bhavnagar — a port in W India, in S Gujarat. Pop: 510 958 (2001)
- bind over — If someone is bound over by a court or a judge, they are given an order and must do as the order says for a particular period of time.
- binervate — (of leaves) having two longitudinal ribs
- binovular — relating to or derived from two different ova
- bivariate — (of a distribution) involving two random variables, not necessarily independent of one another
- blow over — If something such as trouble or an argument blows over, it ends without any serious consequences.
- boil over — When a liquid that is being heated boils over, it rises and flows over the edge of the container.
- boil-over — an unexpected result.
- booklover — a person who enjoys reading books.
- boschvark — a bush pig of S Africa
- boulevard — A boulevard is a wide street in a city, usually with trees along each side.
- bouvardia — a genus of flowering herbs and shrubs of the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical parts of Central America
- bowl over — To bowl someone over means to push into them and make them fall to the ground.
- brainwave — If you have a brainwave, you suddenly have a clever idea.
- brake van — the coach or vehicle from which the guard applies the brakes; guard's van
- brake-van — the caboose of a railway train.
- braveness — possessing or exhibiting courage or courageous endurance.
- breakeven — the level of commercial activity at which the total cost and total revenue of a business enterprise are equal
- breakover — jump (def 51).
- brevetted — a commission promoting a military officer to a higher rank without increase of pay and with limited exercise of the higher rank, often granted as an honor immediately before retirement.
- brevities — shortness of time or duration; briefness: the brevity of human life.
- cabdriver — a taxi driver
- cadaveric — a dead body, especially a human body to be dissected; corpse.
- call-over — a preliminary hearing
- calvarial — relating to or belonging to the calvaria
- calvarian — calvarial
- calvaries — Plural form of calvary.
- calvarium — the upper, domed part of the skull
- campervan — (Australia, NZ, British) A vehicle that provides both transport and sleeping accommodation.
- canaveral — Capecape on the E coast of Fla.: U.S. proving ground for missiles and spacecraft
- canvasser — to solicit votes, subscriptions, opinions, or the like from.
- caravaner — One who travels in a caravan (convoy or procession).
- card vote — a vote by delegates, esp at a trade-union conference, in which each delegate's vote counts as a vote by all his or her constituents
- caregiver — A caregiver is someone who is responsible for looking after another person, for example, a person who has a disability, or is ill or very young.
- caressive — resembling a caress or tending to caress
- carnarvon — a seaport in W Gwynedd, in NW Wales, on Menai Strait: 13th-century castle of Edward II.
- carnivals — Plural form of carnival.
- carnivora — carnivorous animals collectively
- carnivore — A carnivore is an animal that eats meat.
- carnivory — the eating of animal flesh
- carryover — If something is a carryover from an earlier time, it began during an earlier time but still exists or happens now.
- carvacrol — the aromatic phenol C10H14O, found in plants of the mint family and used as a fungicide, as an antiseptic, and as a scent in perfumes
- carve out — to make or create (a career)
- carve-out — to cut (a solid material) so as to form something: to carve a piece of pine.
- carveries — Plural form of carvery.
- cavalieri — Francesco Bonaventura [frahn-ches-kaw baw-nah-ven-too-rah] /frɑnˈtʃɛs kɔ ˌbɔ nɑ vɛnˈtu rɑ/ (Show IPA), 1598–1697, Italian mathematician.