9-letter words containing v, r, y
- overlusty — too lusty
- overlying — present participle of overlie.
- overmerry — very merry
- overstory — the uppermost layer of foliage in a forest, forming the canopy.
- overstudy — excessive study.
- overweary — excessively weary; tired out.
- oviparity — producing eggs that mature and hatch after being expelled from the body, as birds, most reptiles and fishes, and the monotremes.
- ovulatory — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
- pan gravy — meat juices, as from a roast, seasoned but not thickened.
- paravidya — transcendental knowledge.
- parleyvoo — to speak French
- presurvey — to take a general or comprehensive view of or appraise, as a situation, area of study, etc.
- privately — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- provisory — containing a proviso or condition; conditional.
- provostry — the office of a (secular, ecclesiastical, or scholastic) provost
- re-verify — to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate: Events verified his prediction.
- relevancy — the condition of being relevant, or connected with the matter at hand: Some traditional institutions of the media lack relevance in this digital age.
- removedly — in a removed, remote, or distant manner
- reshevsky — Samuel, 1911–92, U.S. chess player, born in Poland.
- reversely — opposite or contrary in position, direction, order, or character: an impression reverse to what was intended; in reverse sequence.
- revocably — that may be revoked.
- reykjavik — a large island in the N Atlantic between Greenland and Scandinavia. 39,698 sq. mi. (102,820 sq. km).
- rover boy — a courageous and principled person who is somewhat naïve and inexperienced.
- salvatory — a place for storing something safely
- sarvodaya — (in India) economic and social development and improvement of a community as a whole
- servantry — servants collectively, esp the servants of a particular establishment as a body
- servilely — slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning: servile flatterers.
- servility — slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning: servile flatterers.
- severally — separately; singly.
- severalty — the state of being separate.
- sky cover — the amount of the sky that is covered by clouds, fog, haze, smoke, or the like, usually expressed in tenths of the total sky.
- stay over — spend the night
- surveying — the science or scientific method of making surveys of land.
- syktyvkar — an autonomous republic in the NW Russian Federation in Europe. 145,221 sq. mi. (376,122 sq. km). Capital: Syktyvkar.
- sylvester — (Gerbert) died 1003, French ecclesiastic: pope 999–1003.
- tarkovsky — Andrei (ˈɑndrej). 1932–86, Soviet film director, whose films include Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1971), Nostalgia (1983), and The Sacrifice (1986)
- trevelyan — George Macaulay, 1876–1962, English historian.
- trivially — of very little importance or value; insignificant: Don't bother me with trivial matters.
- ungravely — in a light-hearted manner
- unsavoury — not savory; tasteless or insipid: an unsavory meal.
- unvarying — to change or alter, as in form, appearance, character, or substance: to vary one's methods.
- vainglory — excessive elation or pride over one's own achievements, abilities, etc.; boastful vanity.
- vajrayana — a school of Tantric Buddhism of India and Tibet
- 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.
- variously — of different kinds, as two or more things; differing one from another: Various experiments have not proved his theory.
- varityper — a justifying typewriter used to produce copy in various type styles
- varyingly — to change or alter, as in form, appearance, character, or substance: to vary one's methods.
- veeringly — in a veering manner
- venerably — commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity; worthy of veneration or reverence, as because of high office or noble character: a venerable member of Congress.
- ventrally — of or relating to the venter or belly; abdominal.