10-letter words containing v, e, r, b
- overborrow — to borrow too much money
- overbought — marked by prices considered unjustifiably high because of extensive buying: The stock market is overbought now. Compare oversold.
- overbounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbound.
- overbridge — (British) A bridge that allows traffic to pass over a road, river, railway etc.
- overbright — radiating or reflecting light; luminous; shining: The bright coins shone in the gloom.
- overbrowse — to browse on (vegetation, land, etc) excessively, in a damaging way; overgraze
- overbrutal — excessively brutal
- overbudget — costing or being more than the amount alloted or budgeted: The building is half-finished and it's already overbudget.
- overburden — to load with too great a burden; overload: He was overburdened with cares.
- overbuying — Present participle of overbuy.
- overdubbed — Simple past tense and past participle of overdub.
- overlabour — excessive toil
- oversubtle — too subtle (so as to be unnoticed)
- previsible — that can be seen; perceptible to the eye: mountains visible in the distance.
- proverbial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb: proverbial brevity.
- providable — to make available; furnish: to provide employees with various benefits.
- provokable — able to be provoked
- pulverable — capable of being pulverized; pulverizable.
- receivable — fit for acceptance; acceptable.
- relievable — to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.).
- reprovable — deserving of reproof.
- reservable — to keep back or save for future use, disposal, treatment, etc.
- resolvable — that can be resolved.
- reversible — capable of reversing or of being reversed.
- reversibly — capable of reversing or of being reversed.
- reviewable — Reviewable premiums or payments are not guaranteed and may be increased or decreased.
- rise above — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- river bank — land at edge of a river
- silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
- silverberg — Robert, born 1935, U.S. science-fiction writer.
- silverbill — a species of finch of the genus Munia
- subaverage — a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean: Her golf average is in the 90s. My average in science has gone from B to C this semester.
- subvariety — a minor or subordinate variety
- subversion — an act or instance of subverting.
- subversive — Also, subversionary [suh b-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-] /səbˈvɜr ʒəˌnɛr i, -ʃə-/ (Show IPA). tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.
- survivable — able to be survived: Would an atomic war be survivable?
- svetambara — one of the two principal Jain sects, whose members wear white and believe that women can attain salvation.
- unbeavered — not wearing a beaver hat or wrapped in beaver fur
- unbeliever — a person who does not believe.
- 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.
- unobserved — to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
- unprovable — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- unvariable — invariable; unchangeable or unchanging
- val-belair — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- vandenberg — Arthur Hendrick, 1884–1951, U.S. statesman.
- vanderbilt — Cornelius, 1794–1877, U.S. financier.
- vat number — registration code for tax purposes
- vegeburger — burger containing no meat
- verb group — A verb group or verbal group consists of a verb, or of a main verb following a modal or one or more auxiliaries. Examples are 'walked', 'can see', and 'had been waiting'.
- verb. sap. — verbum sapienti sat est