9-Letter Words with _,A,I,O,R,S,T,V

• something regarded with special favor or liking

• a special loved one

• a competitor thought likely to win

• appealing to the general public

• preferred above all others and treated with partiality

• To mark an item as a personal favorite on social media

• queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901; the last Hanoverian ruler of England (1819-1901)

• (Roman mythology) goddess of victory; counterpart of Greek Nike

• a waterfall in the Zambezi River on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia; diminishes seasonally

• a town in southeast Texas to the southeast of San Antonio

• port city and the capital of Seychelles

• a state in southeastern Australia

• capital of the Canadian province of British Columbia on Vancouver Island

• a mechanical device that vibrates

• mechanical device that produces vibratory motion; used for massage

• veloute sauce seasoned with chopped chervil, chives, tarragon, shallots and capers

• a gauge boson that mediates the (extremely weak) gravitational interactions between particles