8-letter words containing a, s, r, i
- urbanise — to make or cause to become urban, as a locality.
- urbanism — the way of life of people who live in a large city.
- urbanist — a person who is a specialist in urban planning.
- vagaries — an unpredictable or erratic action, occurrence, course, or instance: the vagaries of weather; the vagaries of the economic scene.
- vagarish — vaguely or somewhat vagarious; relating to a whim
- valorise — to provide for the maintaining of the value or price of (a commercial commodity) by a government's purchasing the commodity at the fixed price or by its making special loans to the producers.
- vampires — a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.
- vaporise — to cause to change into vapor.
- vaporish — of the nature of or resembling vapor: a vaporish chiffon dress.
- varanasi — a city in SE Uttar Pradesh, in NE India, on the Ganges River: Hindu holy city.
- varicose — abnormally or unusually enlarged or swollen: a varicose vein.
- varistor — a resistor whose resistance automatically varies in proportion to the voltage of the current through it.
- varnishy — glossy; like varnish
- vasiform — having the form of a duct or tube.
- versiera — witch of Agnesi.
- vespiary — a nest of social wasps.
- vestiary — of or relating to garments or vestments.
- viatores — a wayfarer; traveler.
- vibrissa — one of the stiff, bristly hairs growing about the mouth of certain animals, as a whisker of a cat.
- vicaress — a rank of nun
- virtuosa — a female virtuoso; a woman with exceptional talent or skill, especially in music.
- viscaria — any plant of the Eurasian perennial genus Viscaria, closely related to genus Lychnis, in which it is sometimes included: low-growing, with pink, white, or purple flowers: family Carophyllaceae
- visceral — of or relating to the viscera.
- visegrad — a town in N Hungary, NW of Budapest on the Danube: site of summit in 1991 of the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland.
- votaries — a person who is bound by solemn religious vows, as a monk or a nun.
- votarist — a person who is bound by solemn religious vows, as a monk or a nun.
- waitress — a woman who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
- waitrons — Plural form of waitron.
- wardship — guardianship; custody.
- wariness — the state or quality of being wary.
- warisons — Plural form of warison.
- warnings — Plural form of warning.
- warpwise — in a vertical direction; at right angles to the filling; lengthwise.
- warriors — Plural form of warrior.
- warships — Plural form of warship.
- wastrife — wastefulness
- waterish — somewhat, or tending to be, watery.
- waterski — Each of a pair of skis enabling the wearer to skim the surface of the water when towed by a motorboat.
- waywiser — a device formerly used for measuring distance travelled by road
- weariest — Superlative form of weary.
- wiretaps — Plural form of wiretap.
- wiseacre — a person who possesses or affects to possess great wisdom.
- wistaria — Alternative spelling of wisteria.
- wisteria — any climbing shrub belonging to the genus Wisteria, of the legume family, having showy, pendent clusters of blue-violet, white, purple, or rose flowers.
- xeransis — the gradual loss of tissue moisture
- yearlies — Plural form of yearly.
- yersinia — A Gram-negative bacterium, of the genus Yersinia, that is an etiological agent of several diseases in animals and humans, notably Yersinia pestis, which causes bubonic plague.
- ygdrasil — the great ash tree whose roots and branches hold together the universe
- zaharias — Mildred Didrikson [did-rik-suh n] /ˈdɪd rɪk sən/ (Show IPA), ("Babe") 1914–56, U.S. track-and-field athlete and golfer.
- zastrugi — sastruga.