9-letter words containing v, r, i, t, a
- privative — causing, or tending to cause, deprivation.
- privatize — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- privocrat — (esp in neo-conservative thought) a person who is not in favour of relinquishing individual freedoms in order to give the state more powers to combat terrorism
- proactive — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- probative — serving or designed for testing or trial.
- prolative — functioning to complete the predicate
- protoavis — a fossil bird of the genus Protoavis, from the Triassic Period, having a birdlike, partly toothless jaw structure, a tail and hind legs resembling those of the dinosaur, and the hollow bones and keellike breast that are characteristic of modern birds: the oldest known avian type, preceding the archaeopteryx by an estimated 75 million years.
- purgative — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- radiative — giving off radiation.
- ravigotte — a cold French sauce or dressing for salad containing mixed chopped herbs such as tarragon and chives
- relatival — of or relating to a relative
- relatives — a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
- retrieval — the act of retrieving.
- revibrate — to vibrate again
- revictual — to victual or provide with food again
- reviolate — to violate again
- rib vault — a vault supported by or decorated with diagonal ribs.
- ritonavir — a type of anti-viral drug used to treat HIV infection and AIDS
- riverboat — any shallow-draft boat used on rivers.
- rotavirus — a double-stranded RNA virus of the genus Rotavirus, family Reoviridae, that is a major cause of infant diarrhea.
- salivator — any agent that causes salivation.
- sarasvati — the Hindu goddess of learning and the arts.
- tara vine — a leafy, woody vine, Actinidia arguta, of Japan and eastern Asia, having white flowers and yellowish, sweet, edible fruit.
- timesaver — (of methods, devices, etc.) reducing the time spent or required to do something.
- togavirus — a virus belonging to the Togaviridae family and which usually affects birds and mammals rather than humans
- tovarisch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- traditive — traditional.
- traveling — activity: journeying
- trivalent — Chemistry. having a valence of three.
- trivially — of very little importance or value; insignificant: Don't bother me with trivial matters.
- tsavorite — a green variety of grossularite, found in Kenya in 1975 and used as a gem.
- tzarevich — czarevitch.
- uvarovite — Mineralogy. a variety of garnet colored emerald-green by the presence of chromium.
- validator — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- 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.
- 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.
- variolate — resembling smallpox, as a lesion.
- variolite — a rock embedded with varioles; a variolitic rock.
- 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.
- varityper — a justifying typewriter used to produce copy in various type styles
- 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.
- 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.
- verbalist — a person skilled in the use of words.
- verbality — wordiness; verbal diffuseness: a speech full of tedious verbality.
- veritable — being truly or very much so: a veritable triumph.
- veritably — being truly or very much so: a veritable triumph.
- verminate — to become infested with vermin, especially parasitic vermin.
- vernality — the quality or state of being vernal