9-letter words containing v, a, r, s
- parasceve — preparation
- pass over — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- peiraievs — Greek name of Piraeus.
- perovskia — a member of the Perovskia genus of aromatic plant native to central Asia, esp Russian sage, Perovskia atriplicifolia
- pervasion — to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.
- pervasive — spread throughout: The corruption is so pervasive that it is accepted as the way to do business.
- privacies — the state of being apart from other people or concealed from their view; solitude; seclusion: Please leave the room and give me some privacy.
- 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
- 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.
- rara avis — a rare person or thing; rarity.
- ravenings — rapacious behaviour and activities
- ravishing — extremely beautiful or attractive; enchanting; entrancing.
- relatives — a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
- revarnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
- revisable — to amend or alter: to revise one's opinion.
- rivalless — without rivals
- rivalrous — characterized by rivalry; competitive: the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.
- rivalship — rivalry
- rna virus — any virus containing RNA; retrovirus.
- rotavirus — a double-stranded RNA virus of the genus Rotavirus, family Reoviridae, that is a major cause of infant diarrhea.
- sail-over — a repetition of an indecisive or interrupted run of a racing yacht.
- salivator — any agent that causes salivation.
- salvarsan — a medicine containing arsenic
- salvatore — a male given name.
- salvatory — a place for storing something safely
- sarasvati — the Hindu goddess of learning and the arts.
- sarvodaya — (in India) economic and social development and improvement of a community as a whole
- saver sub — A saver sub is a short piece of connecting pipe with threads on both ends, which is part of a drill string.
- savouries — pleasant or agreeable in taste or smell: a savory aroma.
- scavenger — an animal or other organism that feeds on dead organic matter.
- schvartze — a term used by some Jewish people to refer to a black person.
- sea raven — a large marine fish of the genus Hemitripterus, as H. americanus, common on the northern Atlantic coast of America.
- sea rover — a pirate.
- servantry — servants collectively, esp the servants of a particular establishment as a body
- sevenbark — wild hydrangea.
- severable — capable of being severed.
- severally — separately; singly.
- severalty — the state of being separate.
- severance — the act of severing or the state of being severed.
- sharesave — (in Britain) a system by which employees can invest, risk-free, in their company's shares
- 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.
- shvartzer — Yiddish: Usually Disparaging and Offensive. schvartze.
- slavering — to let saliva run from the mouth; slobber; drool.
- slavocrat — (in the US before the Civil War) a slaveholder, or an advocate of slavery
- sparkover — spark1 (def 2).
- standover — practising or relating to acts of threatening, intimidating or extorting money from people by force
- stavanger — a seaport in SW Norway.
- stavropol — a territory of the Russian Federation in Europe, N of the Caucasus. 29,600 sq. mi. (76,960 sq. km).