9-letter words containing v, l, r
- hemiliver — Lb anatomy Half of the liver.
- hilversum — a city in central Netherlands.
- hold over — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- holdovers — Plural form of holdover.
- 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.
- 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 revolt — in the process or state of rebelling
- intervale — a low-lying tract of land along a river.
- intervals — Plural form of interval.
- inveigler — One who inveigles.
- inversely — in an inverse manner.
- involucre — Botany. a collection or rosette of bracts subtending a flower cluster, umbel, or the like.
- ivorybill — The ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis).
- keel over — Nautical. a central fore-and-aft structural member in the bottom of a hull, extending from the stem to the sternpost and having the floors or frames attached to it, usually at right angles: sometimes projecting from the bottom of the hull to provide stability.
- kerrville — a town in SW Texas.
- kolozsvar — Hungarian name of Cluj-Napoca.
- landgrave — (in medieval Germany) a count having jurisdiction over a large territory.
- larvacean — Any of various solitary, free-swimming tunicates of the class Larvacea.
- 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.
- lavateras — Plural form of lavatera.
- lavenders — Plural form of lavender.
- 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
- left over — remaining
- leftovers — Plural form of leftover.
- 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.
- lermontov — Mikhail Yurievich [myi-khuh-yeel yoo-ryi-vyich] /myɪ xʌˈyil ˈyu ryɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1814–41, Russian poet and novelist.
- let drive — to hit or aim
- levanters — Plural form of levanter.
- levellers — a person or thing that levels.
- leveraged — Simple past tense and past participle of leverage.
- leverages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of leverage.
- 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
- live trap — a trap for capturing a wild animal alive and without injury.
- live wire — an energetic, keenly alert person.
- liver-rot — a disease chiefly of sheep and cattle, characterized by sluggishness, weight loss, and local damage to the liver, caused by infection from the liver fluke.
- liverleaf — hepatica.
- livermore — a city in W California.
- liverpool — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
- liverwort — any mosslike plant of the class Hepaticae, growing chiefly on damp ground, rocks, or on tree trunks and helping the decay of logs and the disintegration of rocks.
- liveryman — an owner of or an employee in a livery stable.
- liverymen — Plural form of liveryman.