9-letter words containing v, e, r, i
- prereview — a critical article or report, as in a periodical, on a book, play, recital, or the like; critique; evaluation.
- prevailed — to be widespread or current; exist everywhere or generally: Silence prevailed along the funeral route.
- prevailer — to be widespread or current; exist everywhere or generally: Silence prevailed along the funeral route.
- previable — occurring before a fetus has developed enough to survive outside the uterus
- previewer — someone who or something that gives a preview
- prevision — foresight, foreknowledge, or prescience.
- primaeval — of or relating to the first age or ages, especially of the world: primeval forms of life.
- primavera — a central American tree, Cybistax donnell-smithii, of the bignonia family, having showy, tubular yellow flowers.
- primitive — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
- 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.
- 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.
- privilege — a right, immunity, or benefit enjoyed only by a person beyond the advantages of most: the privileges of the very rich.
- 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.
- profusive — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- prokofiev — Sergei Sergeevich [syir-gyey syir-gye-yi-vyich] /syɪrˈgyeɪ syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1891–1953, Russian composer.
- prolative — functioning to complete the predicate
- promotive — tending to promote.
- provident — having or showing foresight; providing carefully for the future.
- pulverine — the alkaline ashes resulting from the burning of the barilla plant
- pulverise — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- pulverize — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- purgative — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- purposive — having, showing, or acting with a purpose, intention, or design.
- quavering — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
- quiverful — The amount held by a quiver.
- quivering — the act or state of quivering; a tremble or tremor.
- quiverish — given to quivering, tremulous
- quivertip — A flexible tip to a fishing rod that bends when a fish takes the bait.
- radiative — giving off radiation.
- ram drive — RAM disk
- ravelling — to disentangle or unravel the threads or fibers of (a woven or knitted fabric, rope, etc.).
- ravenings — rapacious behaviour and activities
- ravenlike — resembling a raven
- ravigotte — a cold French sauce or dressing for salad containing mixed chopped herbs such as tarragon and chives
- re-verify — to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate: Events verified his prediction.
- real live — You use real live to say that someone or something is present or exists, when you want to indicate that you think this is exciting and unusual or unexpected.
- receiving — to take into one's possession (something offered or delivered): to receive many gifts.
- receptive — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- recessive — tending to go, move, or slant back; receding.
- reclusive — a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation.
- reconvict — to convict (someone) again
- recursive — recursion
- red devil — red1 (def 6).
- red river — a river flowing E from NW Texas along the S boundary of Oklahoma into the Mississippi River in Louisiana. About 1300 miles (2095 km) long.
- redeliver — to deliver again.