9-letter words containing r, v
- favourite — a person or thing regarded with special favor or preference: That song is an old favorite of mine.
- favourous — Rare spelling of favorous.
- fervently — having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling, enthusiasm, etc.; ardent: a fervent admirer; a fervent plea.
- fervidity — heated or vehement in spirit, enthusiasm, etc.: a fervid orator.
- fervorous — With fervour; fervent.
- feverfews — Plural form of feverfew.
- feverroot — horse gentian.
- feverweed — any plant belonging to the genus Eryngium, of the parsley family, especially E. foetidum, of the West Indies, or E. campestre, of Europe.
- feverwort — horse gentian.
- filoviral — Relating to filoviruses.
- filovirus — any of several filamentous, single-stranded RNA viruses of the family Filoviridae, defined by their unique appearance and reproductive strategies, as the Ebola and Marburg viruses.
- fitzrovia — the district north of Oxford Street, London, around Fitzroy Square and its pubs, noted in the 1930s and 40s as a haunt of poets
- five-door — a car with five doors
- five-star — having five stars to indicate rank or quality: a five-star general; a five-star brandy.
- five-year — happening over a period of five years
- fivescore — (archaic) Hundred.
- flashover — Electricity. a disruptive discharge around or over the surface of a solid or liquid insulator.
- flavorful — full of flavor; tasty.
- flavoring — taste, especially the distinctive taste of something as it is experienced in the mouth.
- flavorist — a person whose job is to blend natural and artificial ingredients to create the taste and smell of a specific food.
- flavorous — full of flavor.
- flavoured — Having a specific taste, often due to the addition of flavouring.
- flavourer — One who or that which flavours.
- flerovium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Fl; atomic number: 114.
- flip over — turn upside down
- fly river — a river in New Guinea, flowing SE from the central part to the Gulf of Papua, about 800 miles (1290 km) long.
- fly-drive — On a fly-drive holiday, you travel part of the way to your destination by aeroplane, and collect a hired car at the airport so that you can drive the rest of the way.
- fog fever — an acute respiratory disease of cattle, with a high mortality, that can occur after grazing fog
- forgetive — inventive; creative.
- forgiving — disposed to forgive; indicating forgiveness: a forgiving soul; a forgiving smile.
- fork over — an instrument having two or more prongs or tines, for holding, lifting, etc., as an implement for handling food or any of various agricultural tools.
- formative — giving form or shape; forming; shaping; fashioning; molding: a formative process in manufacturing.
- fortran v — Preliminary work on adding character handling to Fortran by IBM ca. 1962. This name as never really used.
- foveiform — shaped like a small pit or depression
- free love — the doctrine or practice of having sexual relations or living together without legal marriage or continuing obligation.
- free vote — law: not based on political party
- fricative — (of a speech sound) characterized by audible friction produced by forcing the breath through a constricted or partially obstructed passage in the vocal tract; spirantal; spirant.
- frivilous — Misspelling of frivolous.
- frivolent — (nonstandard) frivolous, trifling, silly.
- frivoling — to behave frivolously; trifle.
- frivolity — the quality or state of being frivolous: the frivolity of Mardi Gras.
- frivoller — Alt form frivoler.
- frivolous — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
- frugivore — any chiefly fruit-eating organism, as certain bats.
- furnivall — Frederick James, 1825–1910, English philologist and editor.
- furtively — taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance.
- gain over — persuade
- gällivare — a town in N Sweden, within the Arctic Circle: iron mines. Pop: 19 191 (2004 est)
- george iv — 1762–1830, king of England 1820–30 (son of George III).
- george vi — 1895–1952, king of England 1936–1952 (second son of George V; brother of Edward VIII).