9-letter words containing v, r, i, e
- overripen — to make or become too ripe
- overshine — to outshine: One star seemed to overshine all others.
- overshirt — a pullover sport shirt, worn outside the waistband of a skirt or pair of slacks.
- oversight — an omission or error due to carelessness: My bank statement is full of oversights.
- oversized — of excessive size; unusually large: an oversize cigar.
- overskirt — an outer skirt.
- overspice — to add too much spice to
- overspill — to spill over.
- overstain — to stain too much
- overstink — to stink more than (something else)
- overswing — to swing too hard, hoping to apply more power.
- overthick — too thick
- overthink — If you overthink, or if you overthink a problem, you spend too much time thinking about something.
- overtight — firmly or closely fixed in place; not easily moved; secure: a tight knot.
- overtimer — a person who works overtime
- overtimid — extremely timid
- overtired — If you are overtired, you are so tired that you feel unhappy or bad-tempered, or feel that you cannot do things properly.
- overtrain — to train excessively
- overtrick — a trick won by declarer in excess of the number of tricks necessary to make the contract.
- overvivid — strikingly bright or intense, as color, light, etc.: a vivid green.
- overweigh — to exceed in weight; overbalance or outweigh: a respected opinion that overweighs the others.
- overwrite — to write in too elaborate, burdensome, diffuse, or prolix a style: He overwrites his essays to the point of absurdity.
- oviferous — bearing eggs.
- parkville — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
- partitive — serving to divide into parts.
- parvoline — any of various isomeric ptomaines found in liquid derived from decaying animal matter or bituminous coals
- peiraievs — Greek name of Piraeus.
- pelviform — basin-shaped
- perceived — to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses: I perceived an object looming through the mist.
- perceiver — to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses: I perceived an object looming through the mist.
- perceives — to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses: I perceived an object looming through the mist.
- percivale — a knight who is allowed to see the Holy Grail
- perfervid — very fervent; extremely ardent; impassioned: perfervid patriotism.
- perfusive — to overspread with moisture, color, etc.; suffuse.
- perovskia — a member of the Perovskia genus of aromatic plant native to central Asia, esp Russian sage, Perovskia atriplicifolia
- pervading — omnipresent; felt everywhere
- pervasion — to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.
- pervasive — spread throughout: The corruption is so pervasive that it is accepted as the way to do business.
- pick over — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- piscivore — an animal that feeds on fish
- pit grave — a shallow grave hollowed out of a bed of rock or the floor of a tholos.
- pit river — a river in N California, flowing S and W from the Modoc Plateau to the Sacramento River. 200 miles (320 km) long.
- pit viper — any of numerous venomous snakes of the family Crotalidae, of the New World, Asia, and the Malay Archipelago, as the rattlesnake, water moccasin, and copperhead, having a heat-sensitive pit on each side of the head between the eye and nostril.
- polverine — a glassmaker's potash
- portative — capable of being carried; portable.
- posidrive — having a patent screwhead that allows greater torque
- preactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- precisive — characterized by accuracy or exactness: a precisive method of expressing oneself.
- preinvite — to invite (somebody) before others
- prelusive — introductory.