9-letter words containing v, e, r, i
- improvise — to compose and perform or deliver without previous preparation; extemporize: to improvise an acceptance speech.
- improvize — Alternative spelling of improvise.
- in clover — any of various plants of the genus Trifolium, of the legume family, having trifoliolate leaves and dense flower heads, many species of which, as T. pratense, are cultivated as forage plants.
- in revolt — in the process or state of rebelling
- in venter — conceived but not yet born
- incursive — making incursions.
- incurvate — curved, especially inward.
- indeavors — Plural form of indeavor.
- indeavour — Archaic form of endeavour.
- innervate — to communicate nervous energy to; stimulate through nerves.
- innerving — Present participle of innerve.
- insertive — Of or relating to insertion in sexual acts.
- inservice — taking place while one is employed: an in-service training program.
- intervale — a low-lying tract of land along a river.
- intervals — Plural form of interval.
- intervein — one of the system of branching vessels or tubes conveying blood from various parts of the body to the heart.
- intervene — to come between disputing people, groups, etc.; intercede; mediate.
- intervent — (obsolete) To thwart; to obstruct.
- intervert — (obsolete, transitive) To turn to another course or use.
- interview — a formal meeting in which one or more persons question, consult, or evaluate another person: a job interview.
- interwove — to weave together, as threads, strands, branches, or roots.
- introvert — a shy person.
- intrusive — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- inveigher — One who inveighs.
- inveigler — One who inveigles.
- inventors — Plural form of inventor.
- inventory — a complete listing of merchandise or stock on hand, work in progress, raw materials, finished goods on hand, etc., made each year by a business concern.
- inveraray — a town in W Scotland, in Argyll and Bute: Inveraray Castle is the seat of the Dukes of Argyll. Pop: about 700 (2001)
- inverness — Also called Invernessshire [in-ver-nes-sheer, -sher] /ˌɪn vərˈnɛs ʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in NW Scotland.
- inversely — in an inverse manner.
- inversing — reversed in position, order, direction, or tendency.
- inversion — an act or instance of inverting.
- inversive — noting, pertaining to, or characterized by inversion.
- invertase — an enzyme, occurring in yeast and in the digestive juices of animals, that causes the inversion of cane sugar into invert sugar.
- inverters — Plural form of inverter.
- inverting — Present participle of invert.
- investors — Plural form of investor.
- investure — (obsolete) To clothe; to invest.
- involucre — Botany. a collection or rosette of bracts subtending a flower cluster, umbel, or the like.
- irruptive — of, relating to, or characterized by irruption.
- irvingite — a member of the Catholic Apostolic Church.
- iterative — repeating; making repetition; repetitious.
- ivorytype — an antiquated photoprinting technique in which two prints are made of the same image, and the weaker one, made transparent with varnish and colored on the back, is laid over the stronger one.
- jaz drive — (hardware, storage) Iomega Corporation's drive which takes removable one or two gigabyte disk cartridges which contain conventional hard disks. Internal and external drives are available claiming an average transfer rate of 330 megabytes per minute - though that is dependent on the SCSI adapter, the parallel port adapter is unlikely to reach anything like this speed. The Jaz drive was the successor to the company's more establistablished Zip Drive.
- kerrville — a town in SW Texas.
- key drive — a very small, portable storage device that plugs into a computer and facilitates moving data between machines
- kick over — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- larvacide — Alternative spelling of larvicide.
- larvicide — an agent for killing larvae.
- larvikite — a blue-grey syenite that contains feldspar crystals, often used as an ornamental facing on the walls of buildings