9-letter words containing v, i, r
- guinevere — Arthurian Romance. wife of King Arthur and mistress of Lancelot.
- hadrian v — died 1276, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1276.
- hairweave — the process of hairweaving.
- han river — a dynasty in China, 206 b.c.–a.d. 220, with an interregnum, a.d. 9–25: characterized by consolidation of the centralized imperial state and territorial expansion. Compare Earlier Han, Later Han.
- harddrive — Alternative form of hard drive.
- harrovian — of or relating to Harrow.
- hauterive — a town in SE Quebec, in E Canada.
- haverhill — a city in NE Massachusetts, on the Merrimack River.
- haversian — designating or of the canals through which blood vessels and connective tissue pass in bone
- haversine — one half the versed sine of a given angle or arc.
- havildars — Plural form of havildar.
- helldiver — a grebe, especially the pied-billed grebe.
- hemiliver — Lb anatomy Half of the liver.
- henry vii — ("Henry of Luxembourg") 1275?–1313, king of Germany 1309–13 and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1312–13.
- herbivora — grass-eating animals collectively
- herbivore — a herbivorous animal.
- herbivory — The eating of plants, especially ones that are still living.
- hilversum — a city in central Netherlands.
- hoovering — to clean with a vacuum cleaner.
- hortative — hortatory.
- iberville — Pierre le Moyne [pyer luh mwan] /pyɛr lə ˈmwan/ (Show IPA), Sieur, 1661–1706, French naval officer, born in Canada: founder of the first French settlement in Louisiana, 1699.
- immersive — noting or relating to digital technology or images that actively engage one's senses and may create an altered mental state: immersive media; immersive 3D environments.
- improving — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
- improvise — to compose and perform or deliver without previous preparation; extemporize: to improvise an acceptance speech.
- improviso — (obsolete) Not prepared beforehand; unpremeditated; extemporaneous.
- improvize — Alternative spelling of improvise.
- in clover — any of various plants of the genus Trifolium, of the legume family, having trifoliolate leaves and dense flower heads, many species of which, as T. pratense, are cultivated as forage plants.
- in favour — If you are in favour of something, you support it and think that it is a good thing.
- in revolt — in the process or state of rebelling
- in venter — conceived but not yet born
- in vigour — in legal force
- incursive — making incursions.
- incurvate — curved, especially inward.
- incurving — Present participle of incurve.
- incurvity — the quality of having inward curvature
- indeavors — Plural form of indeavor.
- indeavour — Archaic form of endeavour.
- indinavir — (pharmaceutical drug) An anti-retroviral drug of the protease inhibitor class that is used in to treat HIV infected patients.
- innervate — to communicate nervous energy to; stimulate through nerves.
- innerving — Present participle of innerve.
- innovator — to introduce something new; make changes in anything established.
- insertive — Of or relating to insertion in sexual acts.
- inservice — taking place while one is employed: an in-service training program.
- intervale — a low-lying tract of land along a river.
- intervals — Plural form of interval.
- intervein — one of the system of branching vessels or tubes conveying blood from various parts of the body to the heart.
- intervene — to come between disputing people, groups, etc.; intercede; mediate.
- intervent — (obsolete) To thwart; to obstruct.
- intervert — (obsolete, transitive) To turn to another course or use.
- interview — a formal meeting in which one or more persons question, consult, or evaluate another person: a job interview.