9-letter words containing v, i, r
- interwove — to weave together, as threads, strands, branches, or roots.
- introvert — a shy person.
- intrusive — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- invariant — unvarying; invariable; constant.
- inveigher — One who inveighs.
- inveigler — One who inveigles.
- inventors — Plural form of inventor.
- inventory — a complete listing of merchandise or stock on hand, work in progress, raw materials, finished goods on hand, etc., made each year by a business concern.
- inveraray — a town in W Scotland, in Argyll and Bute: Inveraray Castle is the seat of the Dukes of Argyll. Pop: about 700 (2001)
- inverness — Also called Invernessshire [in-ver-nes-sheer, -sher] /ˌɪn vərˈnɛs ʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in NW Scotland.
- inversely — in an inverse manner.
- inversing — reversed in position, order, direction, or tendency.
- inversion — an act or instance of inverting.
- inversive — noting, pertaining to, or characterized by inversion.
- invertase — an enzyme, occurring in yeast and in the digestive juices of animals, that causes the inversion of cane sugar into invert sugar.
- inverters — Plural form of inverter.
- inverting — Present participle of invert.
- investors — Plural form of investor.
- investure — (obsolete) To clothe; to invest.
- invocator — invoke.
- involucre — Botany. a collection or rosette of bracts subtending a flower cluster, umbel, or the like.
- irruptive — of, relating to, or characterized by irruption.
- irvingite — a member of the Catholic Apostolic Church.
- irvington — a town in NE New Jersey, near Newark.
- iterative — repeating; making repetition; repetitious.
- ivory nut — the seed of a low, South American palm, Phytelephas macrocarpa, yielding vegetable ivory.
- ivorybill — The ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis).
- ivorytype — an antiquated photoprinting technique in which two prints are made of the same image, and the weaker one, made transparent with varnish and colored on the back, is laid over the stronger one.
- ivorywood — the yellowish-white wood of an Australian tree, Siphonodon australe, used for engraving, inlaying, and turnery
- jaz drive — (hardware, storage) Iomega Corporation's drive which takes removable one or two gigabyte disk cartridges which contain conventional hard disks. Internal and external drives are available claiming an average transfer rate of 330 megabytes per minute - though that is dependent on the SCSI adapter, the parallel port adapter is unlikely to reach anything like this speed. The Jaz drive was the successor to the company's more establistablished Zip Drive.
- karsavina — Tamara [tuh-mah-ruh] /təˈmɑ rə/ (Show IPA), 1885–1978, Russian dancer.
- kerrville — a town in SW Texas.
- key drive — a very small, portable storage device that plugs into a computer and facilitates moving data between machines
- kick over — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- kirovabad — a city in NW Azerbaijan.
- kirovakan — a city in W Armenia, N of Yerevan.
- larvacide — Alternative spelling of larvicide.
- larvicide — an agent for killing larvae.
- larviform — (zoology) Having the form or structure of a larva.
- larvikite — a blue-grey syenite that contains feldspar crystals, often used as an ornamental facing on the walls of buildings
- lavaliere — an ornamental pendant, usually jeweled, worn on a chain around the neck.
- lavoisier — Antoine Laurent [ahn-twan loh-rahn] /ɑ̃ˈtwan loʊˈrɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1743–94, French scientist: pioneer in the field of chemistry.
- lawgivers — Plural form of lawgiver.
- lay vicar — a member of a cathedral choir appointed to sing certain parts of the services
- lek-river — a river in the central Netherlands, flowing W to the Meuse River; the N branch of the lower Rhine. 40 miles (64 km) long.
- let drive — to hit or aim
- leverrier — Urbain Jean Joseph [yr-ban zhahn zhaw-zef] /ürˈbɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1811–77, French astronomer.
- lifesaver — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- listservs — Plural form of listserv.
- live rail — an electric rail track