11-letter words containing v, i, r
- gravidation — (obsolete) gravidity.
- gravidities — Plural form of gravidity.
- gravimeters — Plural form of gravimeter.
- gravimetric — of or relating to measurement by weight.
- gravisphere — the area in which the gravitational force of a celestial body is predominant.
- gravitating — to move or tend to move under the influence of gravitational force.
- gravitation — Physics. the force of attraction between any two masses. Compare law of gravitation. an act or process caused by this force.
- gravitative — of or relating to gravitation.
- gravity dam — a dam resisting the pressure of impounded water through its own weight.
- gravity-fed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- gravy train — a position in which a person or group receives excessive and unjustified money or advantages with little or no effort: The top executives were on the gravy train with their huge bonuses.
- green river — Henrietta Howland Robinson ("Hetty") 1835–1916, U.S. financier.
- greeneville — a city in E Tennessee.
- gregory vii — Saint (Hildebrand) c1020–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1073–85.
- gregory xiv — (Niccolò Sfandrati) 1535–91, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1590–91.
- gregory xvi — (Bartolommeo Alberto Cappellari) 1765–1846, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1831–46.
- groin-vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- grovelingly — Alternative form of grovellingly.
- hairweaving — the attachment of matching hair to a base of nylon thread interwoven with a person's own hair, as to cover a bald area or to add length: Three of the makeovers involved hairweaving.
- hairy vetch — a plant, Vicia villosa, of the legume family, native to Eurasia, having hairy stems and violet and white flowers, widely grown as forage and as a cover crop.
- harvestfish — a butterfish of the genus Peprilus, especially P. alepidotus of Atlantic waters.
- harvesttime — the time of year when a crop or crops are harvested, especially autumn.
- heart river — a river in SW North Dakota, flowing E to the Missouri River. 180 miles (290 km) long.
- herbivorous — feeding on plants.
- hercegovina — Herzegovina.
- hereinabove — before in this document, statement, etc.
- herpesvirus — a DNA-containing virus of the family Herpesviridae, certain members of which cause such diseases in humans as oral and genital herpes, infectious mononucleosis, chickenpox, and shingles.
- herzegovina — a historic region in SE Europe: a former Turkish province; a part of Austria-Hungary 1878–1914; now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- hircocervus — (in classical and medieval fable) a mythical creature that is half goat and half stag
- hiv-related — related to the HIV virus
- honorius iv — (Giacomo Savelli) 1210–87, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1285–87.
- hooverville — a collection of huts and shacks, as at the edge of a city, housing the unemployed during the 1930s.
- horn silver — cerargyrite.
- hyperactive — unusually or abnormally active: a company's hyperactive growth; the child's hyperactive imagination.
- hyperovaria — precocious sexuality in girls due to abnormally heavy ovarian secretion.
- hypervisors — Plural form of hypervisor.
- hypogravity — The presence of an apparently decreased gravitational field (such as in an aircraft following a parabolic path).
- ill-favored — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- ilog solver — A commercial constraint programming system.
- imperatival — of, relating to, or characteristic of the grammatical imperative.
- imperatives — Plural form of imperative.
- imperviable — Impervious.
- import levy — a charge imposed on imported goods to raise the price to as least as high as the price would be in the country the goods are being imported to
- improvement — an act of improving or the state of being improved.
- improvident — not provident; lacking foresight; incautious; unwary.
- improvisate — To improvise; to extemporize.
- improvisers — Plural form of improviser.
- improvising — Present participle of improvise.
- improvision — (obsolete) The lack of provision, a failure to provide something.
- in favor of — something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.