9-letter words containing riv
- nun river — a major channel of the Niger River, in W Africa.
- old river — a river bed left dry because the river has changed its course.
- outdrives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outdrive.
- outstrive — to strive harder than
- overdrive — to push or carry to excess; overwork.
- pit river — a river in N California, flowing S and W from the Modoc Plateau to the Sacramento River. 200 miles (320 km) long.
- posidrive — having a patent screwhead that allows greater torque
- privacies — the state of being apart from other people or concealed from their view; solitude; seclusion: Please leave the room and give me some privacy.
- privateer — an armed ship that is privately owned and manned, commissioned by a government to fight or harass enemy ships.
- privately — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- privation — lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life: His life of privation began to affect his health.
- privatise — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- privatism — concern with or pursuit of one's personal or family interests, welfare, or ideals to the exclusion of broader social issues or relationships.
- privatist — a person who exhibits a lack of concern for public life
- 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.
- privilege — a right, immunity, or benefit enjoyed only by a person beyond the advantages of most: the privileges of the very rich.
- 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
- quadrivia — Plural form of quadrivium.
- ram drive — RAM disk
- red river — a river flowing E from NW Texas along the S boundary of Oklahoma into the Mississippi River in Louisiana. About 1300 miles (2095 km) long.
- rivalless — without rivals
- rivalrous — characterized by rivalry; competitive: the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.
- rivalship — rivalry
- river bed — bottom of a stream
- river bug — a small inflatable single-seat craft that resembles an armchair
- riverbank — the slopes bordering a river.
- riverboat — any shallow-draft boat used on rivers.
- riverdale — a city in NE Illinois.
- riverhead — the source or spring of a river.
- riverlike — resembling a river
- riverside — a city in SW California.
- riverview — a town in SE New Brunswick, in SE Canada.
- riverwalk — a paved walkway along the side of a river
- riverward — Also, riverwards. toward a river.
- riverweed — any of several chiefly tropical submerged aquatic plants of the genus Podostemum and related genera, growing in rapidly moving streams.
- rivet set — a tool for forming a head on a rivet after driving.
- rivetting — a metal pin for passing through holes in two or more plates or pieces to hold them together, usually made with a head at one end, the other end being hammered into a head after insertion.
- scrivener — scribe1 (defs 1, 2).
- the river — the fifth and final community card to be dealt in a round of Texas hold 'em
- trivalent — Chemistry. having a valence of three.
- trivially — of very little importance or value; insignificant: Don't bother me with trivial matters.
- un-driven — past participle of drive.
- unarrived — to come to a certain point in the course of travel; reach one's destination: He finally arrived in Rome.
- underived — not derived; fundamental, as an axiom or postulate; immediate.
- unrivaled — having no rival or competitor; having no equal; incomparable; supreme: His work is unrivaled for the beauty of its prose.
- unshriven — a past participle of shrive.
- usb drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
- wye-river — a river flowing from central Wales through SW England into the Severn estuary. 130 miles (210 km) long.
- zip drive — (hardware, storage) A disk drive from Iomega Corporation which takes removable hard disks storig 100 to 750 megabytes. Both internal and external drives are manufactured, making the drive suitable for backup, mass storage or for moving files between computers. Software is included to help with file organisation. The internal SCSI model offers up to 60 MB / minute transfer rate. The Zip drive was awarded Byte's Readers' Hardware Choice Award 1996. It was superceded by the Jaz drive which takes one gigbyte disks.