8-letter words containing e, r, i, v
- virtanen — Artturi Ilmari [ahrt-too-ri il-mah-ri] /ˈɑrt tʊ rɪ ˈɪl mɑ rɪ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1973, Finnish biochemist: Nobel prize 1945.
- virucide — an agent for destroying viruses.
- virulent — actively poisonous; intensely noxious: a virulent insect bite.
- 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.
- visioner — a person given to having or seeing visions
- vitreous — of the nature of or resembling glass, as in transparency, brittleness, hardness, glossiness, etc.: vitreous china.
- viverrid — of or relating to the Viverridae, a family of small carnivorous mammals including the civets, genets, palm cats, etc.
- voltaire — (François Marie Arouet) 1694–1778, French philosopher, historian, satirist, dramatist, and essayist.
- vomerine — a bone of the skull in most vertebrates, in humans forming a large part of the septum between the right and left cavities of the nose.
- vorspiel — an introductory movement to a musical work, especially a prelude or overture.
- vortices — a plural of vortex.
- votaries — a person who is bound by solemn religious vows, as a monk or a nun.
- vraicker — a person who gathers vraic
- waivered — Allowed by waiver; permitted by exception granted from otherwise applicable rules.
- wavering — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- win over — to finish first in a race, contest, or the like.
- wingover — an airplane maneuver involving a steep, climbing turn to a near stall, then a sharp drop of the nose, a removal of bank, and a final leveling off in the opposite direction.
- yarovize — to vernalize.