9-letter words containing v, i, s, e, r
- privacies — the state of being apart from other people or concealed from their view; solitude; seclusion: Please leave the room and give me some privacy.
- privatise — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- profusive — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- pulverise — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- purposive — having, showing, or acting with a purpose, intention, or design.
- quiverish — given to quivering, tremulous
- ravenings — rapacious behaviour and activities
- recessive — tending to go, move, or slant back; receding.
- reclusive — a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation.
- recursive — recursion
- redivivus — living again; revived.
- relatives — a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
- remissive — characterized by remission or decrease.
- 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.
- reservoir — a small body of standing water; pond.
- resistive — capable of or inclined to resistance; resisting.
- retrusive — the act of moving a tooth backward.
- revarnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
- revelries — reveling; boisterous festivity: Their revelry could be heard across the river.
- reversion — the act of turning something the reverse way.
- revisable — to amend or alter: to revise one's opinion.
- revisible — to amend or alter: to revise one's opinion.
- revisited — to go to and stay with (a person or family) or at (a place) for a short time for reasons of sociability, politeness, business, curiosity, etc.: to visit a friend; to visit clients; to visit Paris.
- revulsion — a strong feeling of repugnance, distaste, or dislike: Cruelty fills me with revulsion.
- revulsive — tending to alter the distribution of blood by revulsion.
- rivalless — without rivals
- riverside — a city in SW California.
- rivet set — a tool for forming a head on a rivet after driving.
- roseville — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- sail-over — a repetition of an indecisive or interrupted run of a racing yacht.
- savouries — pleasant or agreeable in taste or smell: a savory aroma.
- scrivener — scribe1 (defs 1, 2).
- secretive — secretory.
- semibreve — a note half the length of a breve; whole note.
- septemvir — a member of a seven-man ruling body in ancient Rome.
- serveries — Chiefly British. a food counter in a cafeteria or pub.
- servicing — an act of helpful activity; help; aid: to do someone a service.
- serviette — a table napkin.
- servilely — slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning: servile flatterers.
- servilism — the condition of being servile; servility, esp consistent or complete servility
- servility — slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning: servile flatterers.
- servitude — slavery or bondage of any kind: political or intellectual servitude.
- severinus — died a.d. 640, pope 640.
- ship over — to enlist or reenlist in the U.S. Navy
- shivering — to shake or tremble with cold, fear, excitement, etc.
- shoreview — a town in E Minnesota.
- sign over — a token; indication.
- silvering — Chemistry. a white, ductile metallic element, used for making mirrors, coins, ornaments, table utensils, photographic chemicals, conductors, etc. Symbol: Ag; atomic weight: 107.870; atomic number: 47; specific gravity: 10.5 at 20°C.