9-letter words containing v, i, b, r
- overbuild — to erect too many buildings in (an area).
- overbuilt — Simple past tense and past participle of overbuild.
- previable — occurring before a fetus has developed enough to survive outside the uterus
- probative — serving or designed for testing or trial.
- revibrate — to vibrate again
- revisable — to amend or alter: to revise one's opinion.
- revisible — to amend or alter: to revise one's opinion.
- revivable — to activate, set in motion, or take up again; renew: to revive old feuds.
- rib vault — a vault supported by or decorated with diagonal ribs.
- ribavirin — a synthetic compound, C 8 H 1 2 N 4 O 5 , active against several DNA and RNA viruses.
- rio bravo — Mexican name of Rio Grande (def 1).
- river bed — bottom of a stream
- river bug — a small inflatable single-seat craft that resembles an armchair
- riverbank — the slopes bordering a river.
- riverboat — any shallow-draft boat used on rivers.
- semibreve — a note half the length of a breve; whole note.
- urban vii — (Giovanni Battista Castagna) 1521–90, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1590.
- usb drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
- verbalise — to express in words: He couldn't verbalize his feelings.
- verbalism — a verbal expression, as a word or phrase.
- verbalist — a person skilled in the use of words.
- verbality — wordiness; verbal diffuseness: a speech full of tedious verbality.
- verbalize — to express in words: He couldn't verbalize his feelings.
- verbarian — an inventor of words
- verbiages — overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; wordiness; verbosity.
- verbicide — the willful distortion or depreciation of the original meaning of a word.
- verbosity — the state or quality of being verbose; superfluity of words; wordiness: His speeches were always marred by verbosity.
- veritable — being truly or very much so: a veritable triumph.
- veritably — being truly or very much so: a veritable triumph.
- vibraharp — a musical percussion instrument that resembles a marimba and is played with mallets, but that has metal instead of wooden bars and has a set of electrically powered resonators for sustaining the tone or creating a vibrato.
- vibrantly — moving to and fro rapidly; vibrating.
- vibratile — capable of vibrating or of being vibrated.
- vibration — the act of vibrating.
- vibrative — vibrating
- vibratory — capable of or producing vibration.
- vibrionic — of or relating to an infection by a bacterium of the genus Vibrio.
- vibriosis — a venereal disease of cattle and sheep, caused by the organism Vibrio fetus, characterized by delayed female fertility and by spontaneous abortion.
- vicksburg — a city in W Mississippi, on the Mississippi River: important Civil War siege and Confederate surrender 1863.