9-letter words containing v, r, i, e
- frivolent — (nonstandard) frivolous, trifling, silly.
- frivoller — Alt form frivoler.
- frugivore — any chiefly fruit-eating organism, as certain bats.
- furtively — taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance.
- gain over — persuade
- gällivare — a town in N Sweden, within the Arctic Circle: iron mines. Pop: 19 191 (2004 est)
- george iv — 1762–1830, king of England 1820–30 (son of George III).
- george vi — 1895–1952, king of England 1936–1952 (second son of George V; brother of Edward VIII).
- gerundive — (in Latin) a verbal adjective similar to the gerund in form and noting the obligation, necessity, or worthiness of the action to be done, as legendus in Liber legendus est, “The book is worth reading.”. See also gerund (def 1).
- gilravage — riotous festivity
- give over — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- governing — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- grandview — a town in W Missouri.
- granivore — Any animal that eats seeds as the main part of its diet.
- granville — Earl of, Carteret, John.
- grape ivy — a hairy vine, Cissus rhombifolia, native to tropical America, having glossy trifoliate leaves and often cultivated as a houseplant.
- grapevine — a town in N Texas.
- gravelike — resembling a grave
- graveling — small stones and pebbles, or a mixture of these with sand.
- graveside — the area beside a grave.
- gravesite — the site of a grave or graves; a place of burial.
- gravitate — to move or tend to move under the influence of gravitational force.
- gravities — Plural form of gravity.
- grenville — George, 1712–70, British statesman: prime minister 1763–65.
- grevillea — An evergreen tree or shrub bearing conspicuous flowers that lack petals, most kinds of which are native to Australia.
- grievance — a wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress: Inequitable taxation is the chief grievance.
- grievants — Plural form of grievant.
- grievious — (chiefly, dialectal) Alternative form of grievous.
- grooviest — Superlative form of groovy.
- groveling — to humble oneself or act in an abject manner, as in great fear or utter servility.
- guevarist — a supporter of the revolutionary theories and tactics of Ernesto Guevara.
- guinevere — Arthurian Romance. wife of King Arthur and mistress of Lancelot.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.