9-letter words containing v, r, a, i
- tzarevich — czarevitch.
- unarrived — to come to a certain point in the course of travel; reach one's destination: He finally arrived in Rome.
- universal — of, relating to, or characteristic of all or the whole: universal experience.
- unrivaled — having no rival or competitor; having no equal; incomparable; supreme: His work is unrivaled for the beauty of its prose.
- unvarying — to change or alter, as in form, appearance, character, or substance: to vary one's methods.
- urban vii — (Giovanni Battista Castagna) 1521–90, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1590.
- uvarovite — Mineralogy. a variety of garnet colored emerald-green by the presence of chromium.
- vagarious — characterized by vagaries; erratic; capricious: a vagarious foreign policy.
- vainglory — excessive elation or pride over one's own achievements, abilities, etc.; boastful vanity.
- validator — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- valkyrian — any of the beautiful maidens attendant upon Odin who bring the souls of slain warriors chosen by Odin or Tyr to Valhalla and there wait upon them.
- vampirish — a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.
- vampirism — belief in the existence of vampires.
- vampirize — to suck blood from
- vaporific — producing vapor; tending to form vapor.
- vaporings — instances of boasting
- vaporizer — a person or thing that vaporizes.
- varangian — any of the Northmen who, under Rurik, established a dynasty in Russia in the 9th century.
- variation — the act, process, or accident of varying in condition, character, or degree: Prices are subject to variation.
- variative — the act, process, or accident of varying in condition, character, or degree: Prices are subject to variation.
- varicella — chickenpox.
- varicosis — the formation of a varix or varices.
- variegate — to make varied in appearance, as by adding different colors.
- varieties — the state of being varied or diversified: to give variety to a diet.
- varifocal — having a focus that can vary
- variolate — resembling smallpox, as a lesion.
- variolite — a rock embedded with varioles; a variolitic rock.
- varioloid — resembling smallpox.
- variolous — of or relating to smallpox.
- variously — of different kinds, as two or more things; differing one from another: Various experiments have not proved his theory.
- variscite — a secondary mineral, hydrated phosphate of aluminum, Al(PO 4)⋅2H 2 O, occurring mainly as massive, bluish-green nodules: sometimes used as a gem.
- varisized — of several or various sizes: varisized patterns on a fabric.
- varityper — a justifying typewriter used to produce copy in various type styles
- varnished — 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.
- varsovian — a native or inhabitant of Warsaw.
- varyingly — to change or alter, as in form, appearance, character, or substance: to vary one's methods.
- vectorial — Mathematics. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of which is proportional to the magnitude. Compare scalar (def 4). such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities obey the parallelogram law of addition. such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities are to transform in a particular way under changes of the coordinate system. any generalization of the above quantities.
- vehicular — of, relating to, or for vehicles: a vehicular tunnel.
- velarized — pronounced with velar coarticulation.
- venireman — a person summoned under a venire facias.
- veracious — habitually speaking the truth; truthful; honest: a veracious witness.
- verapamil — a white crystalline powder, C 27 H 38 N 2 O 4 , used as a calcium blocker in the treatment of angina and certain arrhythmias.
- veratrine — a white or grayish-white, slightly water-soluble, poisonous mixture of alkaloids obtained by extraction from the seeds of the sabadilla: formerly used in medicine as a counterirritant in the treatment of rheumatism and neuralgia.
- verbalise — to express in words: He couldn't verbalize his feelings.
- verbalism — a verbal expression, as a word or phrase.
- verbalist — a person skilled in the use of words.
- verbality — wordiness; verbal diffuseness: a speech full of tedious verbality.
- verbalize — to express in words: He couldn't verbalize his feelings.
- verbarian — an inventor of words
- verbiages — overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; wordiness; verbosity.