9-letter words containing v, e, n, r, a
- observant — quick to notice or perceive; alert.
- over-plan — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- overawing — Present participle of overawe.
- overclean — too clean
- overdrawn — Past participle of overdraw.
- overeaten — Past participle of overeat.
- overfrank — too frank
- overgrain — to apply a grainy texture to
- overhuman — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- overladen — to overload (usually used in past participle overladen): a table overladen with rich food.
- overlands — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- overlearn — to learn or memorize beyond the point of proficiency or immediate recall.
- overpaint — to cover over with paint
- overplant — to plant more than is necessary or possible to sustain
- overstain — to stain too much
- overstand — overreach (def 13).
- overtrain — to train excessively
- parvoline — any of various isomeric ptomaines found in liquid derived from decaying animal matter or bituminous coals
- pervading — omnipresent; felt everywhere
- pervasion — to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.
- prevalent — widespread; of wide extent or occurrence; in general use or acceptance.
- provencal — of or relating to Provence, its people, or their language.
- quavering — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
- ravelling — to disentangle or unravel the threads or fibers of (a woven or knitted fabric, rope, etc.).
- ravelment — entanglement; confusion.
- ravenings — rapacious behaviour and activities
- ravenlike — resembling a raven
- readvance — to advance again or further
- relevance — the condition of being relevant, or connected with the matter at hand: Some traditional institutions of the media lack relevance in this digital age.
- relevancy — the condition of being relevant, or connected with the matter at hand: Some traditional institutions of the media lack relevance in this digital age.
- revalenta — a mixture of flour made from lentils and barley
- revamping — to renovate, redo, or revise: We've decided to revamp the entire show.
- 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.
- revealing — to make known; disclose; divulge: to reveal a secret.
- revertant — a gene, organism, or strain that has undergone a back mutation.
- riverbank — the slopes bordering a river.
- rounceval — a variety of large pea
- rovaniemi — a city in N Finland, near the Arctic Circle.
- scavenger — an animal or other organism that feeds on dead organic matter.
- sea raven — a large marine fish of the genus Hemitripterus, as H. americanus, common on the northern Atlantic coast of America.
- servantry — servants collectively, esp the servants of a particular establishment as a body
- sevenbark — wild hydrangea.
- severance — the act of severing or the state of being severed.
- slavering — to let saliva run from the mouth; slobber; drool.
- standover — practising or relating to acts of threatening, intimidating or extorting money from people by force
- stavanger — a seaport in SW Norway.
- supernova — the explosion of a star, possibly caused by gravitational collapse, during which the star's luminosity increases by as much as 20 magnitudes and most of the star's mass is blown away at very high velocity, sometimes leaving behind an extremely dense core.
- tara vine — a leafy, woody vine, Actinidia arguta, of Japan and eastern Asia, having white flowers and yellowish, sweet, edible fruit.
- tervalent — trivalent.
- the raven — a lyric poem (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe.