10-letter words containing v, i, r
- inveracity — untruthfulness; mendacity.
- inverclyde — a council area of W central Scotland: created in 1996 from part of Strathclyde region. Administrative centre: Greenock. Pop: 83 050 (2003 est). Area: 162 sq km (63 sq miles)
- inversions — Plural form of inversion.
- invertedly — In an inverted manner, or reverse order.
- invertible — to turn upside down.
- inveteracy — the quality or state of being inveterate or deeply ingrained: the inveteracy of people's prejudices.
- inveterate — settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling, or the like: an inveterate gambler.
- invigorant — a tonic.
- invigorate — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- invirility — Absence of virility or manhood; effeminacy.
- invitatory — serving to invite; conveying an invitation.
- invocatory — the act of invoking or calling upon a deity, spirit, etc., for aid, protection, inspiration, or the like; supplication.
- involucral — Pertaining to, possessing, or like, an involucrum.
- involucred — (botany) Having an involucre.
- involucres — Plural form of involucre.
- involucrum — involucre.
- inworld vr — (company, virtual reality) Manufacturers of the CyberWand.
- irrelative — not relative; without relation (usually followed by to).
- irrelevant — not relevant; not applicable or pertinent: His lectures often stray to interesting but irrelevant subjects.
- irreverend — Not reverend (not worthy of respect).
- irreverent — not reverent; manifesting or characterized by irreverence; deficient in veneration or respect: an irreverent reply.
- irrigative — serving for or pertaining to irrigation.
- irritative — serving or tending to irritate.
- ivermectin — a drug that kills parasitic nematode worms, mites, and insects. It is used to treat a variety of parasitic infections in domestic animals and onchocerciasis in humans
- ivory gull — a white, arctic gull, Pagophila eburnea.
- ivory palm — the palm bearing the common ivory nut.
- jail fever — a former name for typhus, once a common disease in jails
- javascript — Alternative capitalization of JavaScript.
- 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.
- kirovograd — a city in S central Ukraine.
- kirovohrad — Kirovograd.
- krivoi rog — a city in SE Ukraine, SW of Dnepropetrovsk.
- krivoy rog — a city in SE Ukraine: founded in the 17th century by Cossacks; iron-mining centre; iron- and steelworks. Pop: 658 000 (2005 est)
- 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.
- larvacidal — Alternative spelling of larvicidal.
- larvicidal — an agent for killing larvae.
- larvicides — Plural form of larvicide.
- lavalliere — an ornamental pendant, usually jeweled, worn on a chain around the neck.
- lavatorial — Relating to or resembling lavatories.
- 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.