10-letter words containing v, e, r, i
- jail fever — a former name for typhus, once a common disease in jails
- javelineer — A soldier who throws a javelin.
- javelinier — A soldier who throws a javelin.
- jervis bay — an inlet of the Pacific in SE Australia, in Jervis Bay Territory on the coast of S New South Wales: regarded for some purposes as part of the Australian Capital Territory: site of the Royal Australian Naval College
- kingsolver — Barbara, born 1955, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
- kirksville — a city in N Missouri.
- labiovelar — pronounced with simultaneous bilabial and velar articulations, as w.
- lacerative — Lacerating, or having the power to lacerate.
- lagerkvist — Pär [par] /pær/ (Show IPA), 1891–1974, Swedish novelist, poet, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1951.
- larvicides — Plural form of larvicide.
- lavalliere — an ornamental pendant, usually jeweled, worn on a chain around the neck.
- lavatories — Plural form of lavatory.
- lentiviral — Of or pertaining to a lentivirus.
- lentivirus — any slow virus of the genus Lentivirus, of the retrovirus family, causing brain disease in sheep and other animals.
- leveraging — the action of a lever, a rigid bar that pivots about one point and that is used to move an object at a second point by a force applied at a third.
- leviration — Levirate marriage.
- liberative — to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
- libreville — Official name Gabonese Republic. a republic in W equatorial Africa: formerly a part of French Equatorial Africa; member of the French Community. 102,290 sq. mi. (264,931 sq. km). Capital: Libreville.
- life-saver — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- lifesavers — Plural form of lifesaver.
- line drive — a batted ball that travels low, fast, and straight.
- live birth — the birth of a living child
- livebearer — any viviparous fish of the family Poeciliidae, often kept in home aquariums.
- liver opal — a form of opal having a reddish-brown coloration
- liver pâté — pâté made from minced liver meat
- liver spot — a dark brown skin spot, usually caused by sun exposure
- liverworts — Plural form of liverwort.
- liverwurst — a sausage made with a large percentage of liver, especially one made with pork liver and pork meat.
- livescript — JavaScript
- livestream — to broadcast (an event) on the internet as it happens
- lost river — a river that flows into an underground passage or sinkhole.
- loup river — a river in E central Nebraska, flowing E to the Platte River. 68 miles (109 km) long.
- lucerative — Misspelling of lucrative.
- margravine — the wife of a margrave.
- marine ivy — a vine, Cissus incisa, of the grape family, native to the southern U.S., having three leaflets or three-lobed leaves and black fruit, grown as a houseplant.
- marvelling — something that causes wonder, admiration, or astonishment; a wonderful thing; a wonder or prodigy: The new bridge is an engineering marvel.
- memorative — (obsolete) commemorative.
- mesovarium — the mesentery of the ovary.
- microdrive — a type of memory card that has moving parts and can store large amounts of data
- microlevel — A microscopic level.
- microwaved — Simple past tense and past participle of microwave.
- microwaves — an electromagnetic wave of extremely high frequency, 1 GH 3 or more, and having wavelengths of from 1 mm to 30 cm.
- milk fever — Pathology. fever coinciding with the beginning of lactation, formerly believed to be due to lactation but really due to infection.
- misgoverns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misgovern.
- misimprove — to make worse in trying to make better
- misobserve — to observe incorrectly or inaccurately
- misventure — an unfortunate undertaking; misadventure.
- monteverdi — Claudio [klou-dyaw] /ˈklaʊ dyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1567–1643, Italian composer.
- movie star — famous film actor
- moviegoers — Plural form of moviegoer.