9-letter words containing v, a, r, i, o
- privation — lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life: His life of privation began to affect his health.
- 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.
- progravid — progestational (def 1).
- 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.
- radio van — a van containing equipment for transmitting and receiving radio signals
- ravigotte — a cold French sauce or dressing for salad containing mixed chopped herbs such as tarragon and chives
- reviolate — to violate again
- rio bravo — Mexican name of Rio Grande (def 1).
- ritonavir — a type of anti-viral drug used to treat HIV infection and AIDS
- rivalrous — characterized by rivalry; competitive: the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.
- riverboat — any shallow-draft boat used on rivers.
- rotavirus — a double-stranded RNA virus of the genus Rotavirus, family Reoviridae, that is a major cause of infant diarrhea.
- rovaniemi — a city in N Finland, near the Arctic Circle.
- sail-over — a repetition of an indecisive or interrupted run of a racing yacht.
- salivator — any agent that causes salivation.
- savouries — pleasant or agreeable in taste or smell: a savory aroma.
- 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).
- tsavorite — a green variety of grossularite, found in Kenya in 1975 and used as a gem.
- uvarovite — Mineralogy. a variety of garnet colored emerald-green by the presence of chromium.
- vagarious — characterized by vagaries; erratic; capricious: a vagarious foreign policy.
- vainglory — excessive elation or pride over one's own achievements, abilities, etc.; boastful vanity.
- validator — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- vaporific — producing vapor; tending to form vapor.
- vaporings — instances of boasting
- vaporizer — a person or thing that vaporizes.
- variation — the act, process, or accident of varying in condition, character, or degree: Prices are subject to variation.
- varicosis — the formation of a varix or varices.
- varifocal — having a focus that can vary
- variolate — resembling smallpox, as a lesion.
- variolite — a rock embedded with varioles; a variolitic rock.
- varioloid — resembling smallpox.
- variolous — of or relating to smallpox.
- variously — of different kinds, as two or more things; differing one from another: Various experiments have not proved his theory.
- varsovian — a native or inhabitant of Warsaw.
- vectorial — Mathematics. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of which is proportional to the magnitude. Compare scalar (def 4). such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities obey the parallelogram law of addition. such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities are to transform in a particular way under changes of the coordinate system. any generalization of the above quantities.
- veracious — habitually speaking the truth; truthful; honest: a veracious witness.
- vernation — the arrangement of the foliage leaves within the bud.
- viareggio — a town and resort in W Italy, in Tuscany on the Ligurian Sea. Pop: 61 103 (2001)
- viatorial — pertaining to travelling
- vibration — the act of vibrating.
- vibratory — capable of or producing vibration.
- vicarious — performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment.
- victorian — of or relating to Queen Victoria or the period of her reign: Victorian poets.
- video art — an art form involving the creative exploitation of video technology to produce videotapes for viewing on a television screen.
- videogram — an audiovisual recording, as on a videotape or DVD
- virilocal — Anthropology. living with or located near the husband's father's group; patrilocal.