9-letter words containing t, r, a, v
- overreact — to react or respond more strongly than is necessary or appropriate.
- overroast — to roast for too long so as to spoil
- overstaff — to provide an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- overstain — to stain too much
- overstand — overreach (def 13).
- overstare — to outstare
- overstate — to state too strongly; exaggerate: to overstate one's position in a controversy.
- overtaxed — taxed too heavily
- overteach — to teach too much
- overtrade — to trade in excess of one's capital or the requirements of the market.
- overtrain — to train excessively
- overtreat — to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way: to treat someone with respect.
- overwatch — to watch over.
- overwater — to give too much water to
- oviparity — producing eggs that mature and hatch after being expelled from the body, as birds, most reptiles and fishes, and the monotremes.
- oviraptor — a bipedal dinosaur of the late Cretaceous period, having a toothless jaw and long forelimbs with clawed fingers
- ovulatory — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
- partitive — serving to divide into parts.
- patercove — a fraudulent priest
- pavarotti — Luciano [loo-chee-ah-noh;; Italian loo-chah-naw] /ˌlu tʃiˈɑ noʊ;; Italian luˈtʃɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1935–2007, Italian operatic tenor.
- pit grave — a shallow grave hollowed out of a bed of rock or the floor of a tholos.
- port vila — the capital of Vanuatu, on the island of Efate. Pop: 44 040 (2009)
- portative — capable of being carried; portable.
- preactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- pretravel — occurring prior to travel
- prevacate — to give up possession or occupancy of: to vacate an apartment.
- prevalent — widespread; of wide extent or occurrence; in general use or acceptance.
- privateer — an armed ship that is privately owned and manned, commissioned by a government to fight or harass enemy ships.
- privately — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- privation — lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life: His life of privation began to affect his health.
- privatise — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- privatism — concern with or pursuit of one's personal or family interests, welfare, or ideals to the exclusion of broader social issues or relationships.
- privatist — a person who exhibits a lack of concern for public life
- privative — causing, or tending to cause, deprivation.
- 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.
- 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.
- provocant — a person who deliberately behaves controversially to provoke argument or other strong reactions
- purgative — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- radiative — giving off radiation.
- ravelment — entanglement; confusion.
- ravigotte — a cold French sauce or dressing for salad containing mixed chopped herbs such as tarragon and chives
- recurvate — bent back or backward; recurved.
- relatival — of or relating to a relative
- relatives — a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
- retrieval — the act of retrieving.
- revalenta — a mixture of flour made from lentils and barley