9-letter words containing v, i, r
- provisory — containing a proviso or condition; conditional.
- provoking — serving to provoke; causing annoyance.
- pulverine — the alkaline ashes resulting from the burning of the barilla plant
- pulverise — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- pulverize — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- pulvillar — of or relating to a pulvillus
- purgative — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- purposive — having, showing, or acting with a purpose, intention, or design.
- quadrivia — Plural form of quadrivium.
- quavering — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
- quiverful — The amount held by a quiver.
- quivering — the act or state of quivering; a tremble or tremor.
- quiverish — given to quivering, tremulous
- quivertip — A flexible tip to a fishing rod that bends when a fish takes the bait.
- radiative — giving off radiation.
- radio van — a van containing equipment for transmitting and receiving radio signals
- ram drive — RAM disk
- rara avis — a rare person or thing; rarity.
- ravelling — to disentangle or unravel the threads or fibers of (a woven or knitted fabric, rope, etc.).
- ravenings — rapacious behaviour and activities
- ravenlike — resembling a raven
- ravigotte — a cold French sauce or dressing for salad containing mixed chopped herbs such as tarragon and chives
- ravishing — extremely beautiful or attractive; enchanting; entrancing.
- re-verify — to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate: Events verified his prediction.
- real live — You use real live to say that someone or something is present or exists, when you want to indicate that you think this is exciting and unusual or unexpected.
- receiving — to take into one's possession (something offered or delivered): to receive many gifts.
- receptive — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- recessive — tending to go, move, or slant back; receding.
- reclusive — a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation.
- reconvict — to convict (someone) again
- recursive — recursion
- red devil — red1 (def 6).
- red river — a river flowing E from NW Texas along the S boundary of Oklahoma into the Mississippi River in Louisiana. About 1300 miles (2095 km) long.
- redeliver — to deliver again.
- redivivus — living again; revived.
- redivorce — to divorce again
- reductive — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
- refective — of or relating to refection; refreshing
- reflexive — Grammar. (of a verb) taking a subject and object with identical referents, as shave in I shave myself. (of a pronoun) used as an object to refer to the subject of a verb, as myself in I shave myself.
- reinvolve — to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours and hard work.
- rejective — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
- relatival — of or relating to a relative
- relatives — a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
- relieving — to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.).
- remissive — characterized by remission or decrease.
- reprieval — reprieve; respite.
- reproving — If you give someone a reproving look or speak in a reproving voice, you show or say that you think they have behaved in a wrong or foolish way.
- repulsive — causing repugnance or aversion: a repulsive mask.
- reservice — the act of reserving food that has been served previously
- reservist — a person who belongs to a reserve military force of a country.