10-letter words containing v, a, n, i, r
- ruminative — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- sand viper — hognose snake.
- serviceman — a member of the armed forces of a country.
- starvation — the act or state of starving; condition of being starved.
- starveling — a person, animal, or plant that is starving.
- stravaging — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- stravinsky — Igor Fëdorovich [ee-gawr fyaw-duh-roh-vich;; Russian ee-guh r fyaw-duh-ruh-vyich] /ˈi gɔr ˌfyɔ dəˈroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈi gər ˈfyɔ də rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1971, U.S. composer, born in Russia.
- survivance — survival
- tananarive — former name of Antananarivo.
- theravadin — Hinayanist.
- transitive — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
- travailing — painfully difficult or burdensome work; toil.
- travelling — to go from one place to another, as by car, train, plane, or ship; take a trip; journey: to travel for pleasure.
- traversing — to pass or move over, along, or through.
- travertine — a form of limestone deposited by springs, especially hot springs, used in Italy for building.
- trivandrum — a city in and the capital of Kerala state, in S India: Vishnu pilgrimage center.
- tsvangirai — Morgan. born 1952, Zimbabwean trade unionist and politician; leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, the main opposition party to President Mugabe's Zanu-PF since 1999; prime minister (2009–2013)
- uncreative — having the quality or power of creating.
- undrivable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- unfavoring — something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
- unfavorite — a person or thing regarded with special favor or preference: That song is an old favorite of mine.
- univariant — (of thermodynamic equilibrium) having a variance of one, or only one degree of freedom
- univariate — (of a distribution) having one variate.
- unraveling — to separate or disentangle the threads of (a woven or knitted fabric, a rope, etc.).
- unravished — to rape (a woman).
- unreactive — tending to react.
- unrelative — a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
- unrivalled — having no rival or competitor; having no equal; incomparable; supreme: His work is unrivaled for the beauty of its prose.
- unvariable — invariable; unchangeable or unchanging
- unvariably — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- unveracity — lack of veracity or truthfulness; the quality or condition of tending to speak what is false
- unwavering — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- urban viii — (Maffeo Barberini) 1568–1644, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1623–44.
- vacationer — a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday: Schoolchildren are on vacation now.
- vaccinator — a person who vaccinates.
- vagrancies — the conduct of a vagrant.
- van driver — a person whose occupation is driving a van
- vanderbilt — Cornelius, 1794–1877, U.S. financier.
- vanquisher — to conquer or subdue by superior force, as in battle.
- vansittart — Sir Robert Gilbert, 1st Baron Vansittart of Denham, 1881–1957, British statesman and diplomat.
- varnishing — the skill or technique of varnishing something
- vegetarian — a person who does not eat or does not believe in eating meat, fish, fowl, or, in some cases, any food derived from animals, as eggs or cheese, but subsists on vegetables, fruits, nuts, grain, etc.
- venatorial — of or relating to hunting
- veneration — the act of venerating.
- venerative — the act of venerating.
- ventilator — a person or thing that ventilates.
- vernissage — Also called varnishing day. the day before the opening of an art exhibition traditionally reserved for the artist to varnish the paintings.
- verulamian — of or relating to Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam.
- veterinary — a veterinarian.
- vibraphone — vibraharp.