9-letter words containing v, e, i, t
- oxidative — the process or result of oxidizing.
- partitive — serving to divide into parts.
- passivate — to treat (a metal) to render the surface less reactive chemically.
- pit grave — a shallow grave hollowed out of a bed of rock or the floor of a tholos.
- pit river — a river in N California, flowing S and W from the Modoc Plateau to the Sacramento River. 200 miles (320 km) long.
- pit viper — any of numerous venomous snakes of the family Crotalidae, of the New World, Asia, and the Malay Archipelago, as the rattlesnake, water moccasin, and copperhead, having a heat-sensitive pit on each side of the head between the eye and nostril.
- pivotable — capable of turning on or as if on a pivot
- placative — placatory.
- plaintive — expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful: a plaintive melody.
- pollutive — to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
- pontlevis — a drawbridge.
- portative — capable of being carried; portable.
- positives — explicitly stated, stipulated, or expressed: a positive acceptance of the agreement.
- preactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- preinvite — to invite (somebody) before others
- primitive — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
- 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.
- privatise — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- 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.
- 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.
- provident — having or showing foresight; providing carefully for the future.
- pulsative — throbbing; pulsating.
- pulvinate — having the shape of a cushion; resembling a cushion; cushion-shaped.
- purgative — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- quivertip — A flexible tip to a fishing rod that bends when a fish takes the bait.
- quotative — (linguistics) Form of the complementizer related to the verb say, found in many languages of West Africa and South Asia.
- radiative — giving off radiation.
- ravigotte — a cold French sauce or dressing for salad containing mixed chopped herbs such as tarragon and chives
- receptive — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- reconvict — to convict (someone) again
- reductive — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
- refective — of or relating to refection; refreshing
- rejective — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
- relatival — of or relating to a relative
- relatives — a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
- reservist — a person who belongs to a reserve military force of a country.
- resistive — capable of or inclined to resistance; resisting.
- retentive — tending or serving to retain something.
- retortive — having or containing a retort
- retrieval — the act of retrieving.
- retrieved — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
- retriever — a person or thing that retrieves.
- retrusive — the act of moving a tooth backward.
- revertive — of or related to reverting
- revibrate — to vibrate again