9-letter words containing t, r, o, v
- 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
- promotive — tending to promote.
- 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.
- prove out — to show or be shown to be satisfactory, accurate, true, etc.
- provident — having or showing foresight; providing carefully for the future.
- provocant — a person who deliberately behaves controversially to provoke argument or other strong reactions
- provostry — the office of a (secular, ecclesiastical, or scholastic) provost
- ravigotte — a cold French sauce or dressing for salad containing mixed chopped herbs such as tarragon and chives
- reconvert — to convert again.
- reconvict — to convict (someone) again
- resolvent — resolving; causing solution; solvent.
- retortive — having or containing a retort
- retrovert — to turn back, to revert
- revelator — a person who makes a revelation.
- reviolate — to violate again
- revolting — disgusting; repulsive: a revolting sight.
- ritonavir — a type of anti-viral drug used to treat HIV infection and AIDS
- riverboat — any shallow-draft boat used on rivers.
- roosevelt — (Anna) Eleanor, 1884–1962, U.S. diplomat, author, and lecturer (wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt).
- rotavator — a type of machine with rotating blades that break up soil
- rotavirus — a double-stranded RNA virus of the genus Rotavirus, family Reoviridae, that is a major cause of infant diarrhea.
- rubtsovsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Asia.
- salivator — any agent that causes salivation.
- salvatore — a male given name.
- salvatory — a place for storing something safely
- serve out — dish up, distribute: food
- shortwave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
- slavocrat — (in the US before the Civil War) a slaveholder, or an advocate of slavery
- softcover — paperback edition of a book
- standover — practising or relating to acts of threatening, intimidating or extorting money from people by force
- stavropol — a territory of the Russian Federation in Europe, N of the Caucasus. 29,600 sq. mi. (76,960 sq. km).
- stay over — spend the night
- stevedore — a firm or individual engaged in the loading or unloading of a vessel.
- stop over — stay overnight on a journey
- take over — the act of taking.
- talk over — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- tarkovsky — Andrei (ˈɑndrej). 1932–86, Soviet film director, whose films include Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1971), Nostalgia (1983), and The Sacrifice (1986)
- televisor — an apparatus for transmitting or receiving television.
- thorshavn — a city in and the capital of the Faeroe Islands, in the N Atlantic.
- throwover — designed to fit loosely over an object without being tied to it
- tick over — If an engine is ticking over, it is running at a low speed or rate, for example when it is switched on but you are not actually using it.
- tide over — the periodic rise and fall of the waters of the ocean and its inlets, produced by the attraction of the moon and sun, and occurring about every 12 hours.
- tk!solver — Software Arts 1983. Numerical constraint-oriented language. "The TK!Solver Book", M. Konopasek et al, McGraw-Hill 1984.
- togavirus — a virus belonging to the Togaviridae family and which usually affects birds and mammals rather than humans
- tovarisch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- triton vx — (processor) (Official name 82430VX) A version of Intel's Triton processor chip set with all the features of the Triton I plus support for SDRAM, USB, and a UMA option. Triton VX consists of one 82437VX TVC, two 82438VX TVP, and one 82371SB PIIX3.
- trouveres — one of a class of medieval poets who flourished in northern France during the 12th and 13th centuries, wrote in langue d'oïl, and composed chiefly the chansons de geste and works on the themes of courtly love.