9-Letter Words Containing: V,A,R,A,N,S

• a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)

• someone who advances

• a petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes

• someone who examines votes at an election

• someone who conducts surveys of public opinion

• a person who takes or counts votes

• an event that departs from expectations

• discord that splits a group

• the second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value

• a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions

• the quality of being subject to variation

• an official dispensation to act contrary to a rule or regulation (typically a building regulation)

• an activity that varies from a norm or standard

• the leading units moving at the head of an army

• any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)

• the position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field

• a festival marked by merrymaking and processions

• a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment

• a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.

• A device, stabilized with vanes, towed alongside a vessel such that the cable attaching it cuts the moorings of submerged mines.

• A towed underwater object with hydrofoils, of diverse uses.