10-letter words containing v, i, r
- fortran vi — IBM's internal name for early PL/I work ca. 1963.
- forty-five — a cardinal number, 40 plus 5.
- free liver — a person who follows a way of life that freely indulges the appetites, desires, etc.
- freediving — skin diving.
- fricatives — Plural form of fricative.
- fucivorous — feeding on seaweed
- gainstrive — to resist; to oppose
- galvaniser — Alternative spelling of galvanizer.
- galvanizer — One who, or that which, galvanizes.
- gasparovic — Ivan. born 1941, Slovakian politician, president of Slovakia (2004–14)
- generative — capable of producing or creating.
- german ivy — a twining composite plant, Senecio mikanioides, native to southern Africa, having ivy-shaped leaves and clusters of yellow flowers.
- gerundives — Plural form of gerundive.
- gilravager — someone who makes merry, esp to excess
- give birth — have a baby
- give forth — to send forth; emit; issue
- give guard — (of an umpire) to indicate such a position to a batsman
- go private — to restore private ownership of a corporation by buying back publicly held stock
- going-over — a review, examination, or investigation: The accounts were given a thorough going-over.
- gooseliver — smoked liver sausage
- grandville — a town in SW Michigan.
- grapevines — Plural form of grapevine.
- gravel pit — an open cast working for the extraction of gravel
- gravelling — Present participle of gravel.
- gravesides — Plural form of graveside.
- gravesites — Plural form of gravesite.
- gravettian — of, relating to, or characteristic of an advanced Upper Paleolithic industry of Europe dating to c25,000 b.c. and characterized by straight, blunt-backed blades.
- gravimeter — an instrument for measuring the specific gravity of a solid or liquid.
- gravimetry — the measurement of weight or density.
- gravitated — Simple past tense and past participle of gravitate.
- gravitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gravitate.
- gravitonic — Relating to gravitons.
- greenville — a city in NW South Carolina.
- gregory iv — died a.d. 844, pope 827–844.
- gregory vi — (Johannes Gratianus) died 1048, German ecclesiastic: pope 1045–46.
- greynville — Sir Richard, Grenville, Sir Richard.
- grievances — Plural form of grievance.
- grievingly — In a grieving manner.
- grievously — causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
- grooviness — the quality of being groovy
- ground ivy — a creeping, aromatic plant, Glechoma hederacea, of the mint family, having rounded leaves and whorling clusters of small blue flowers.
- grove city — a town in central Ohio.
- grovelling — to humble oneself or act in an abject manner, as in great fear or utter servility.
- hadrian iv — (Nicholas Breakspear) c1100–59, only Englishman to become pope, 1154–59.
- hadrian vi — 1459–1523, Dutch ecclesiastic: pope 1522–23.
- hair weave — the process of hairweaving.
- hanoverian — of or relating to the former ruling house of Hanover.
- hantavirus — any of several viruses of the family Bunyaviridae, spread chiefly by wild rodents, that cause acute respiratory illness, kidney failure, and other syndromes.
- hard drive — hard disk drive
- harvesting — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.