8-letter words containing e, r, i, v
- reprieve — to delay the impending punishment or sentence of (a condemned person).
- rereview — to review again
- rerevise — a new or second revise or revised version
- resilver — to silver again, to coat or plate again with silver
- restrive — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
- retrieve — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
- retrovir — a brand of the drug zidovudine
- reveille — a signal, as of a drum or bugle, sounded early in the morning to awaken military personnel and to alert them for assembly.
- reveling — to take great pleasure or delight (usually followed by in): to revel in luxury.
- reveries — a state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing: lost in reverie.
- reverify — to verify again
- revering — to regard with respect tinged with awe; venerate: The child revered her mother.
- reverist — someone who tends to daydream or is inclined to reveries
- reversis — a type of card game which was popular in the 17th and 18th centuries
- reviewal — the act of reviewing.
- reviewer — a person who reviews.
- revilers — to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively.
- reviling — to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively.
- revision — the act or work of revising.
- revisory — pertaining to or for the purpose of revision.
- revivify — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
- rickover — Hyman George, 1900–86, U.S. naval officer, born in Poland: helped to develop the nuclear submarine.
- rietveld — Gerrit Thomas [kher-it toh-mahs] /ˈxɛr ɪt ˈtoʊ mɑs/ (Show IPA), 1888–1964, Dutch architect.
- rig veda — one of the Vedas, a collection of 1028 hymns, dating from not later than the second millennium b.c.
- rig-veda — one of the Vedas, a collection of 1028 hymns, dating from not later than the second millennium b.c.
- ringdove — a small Old World dove, Streptopelia risoria, having a black half ring around the nape of the neck.
- rivaless — a female rival
- rivalize — to become a rival
- rivalled — a person who is competing for the same object or goal as another, or who tries to equal or outdo another; competitor.
- riverbed — the channel in which a river flows or formerly flowed.
- riverine — of or relating to a river.
- riverman — a boatman or a man earning his living working on a river
- riverway — the part of a river that boats can travel on, or the route or course of a river
- riveting — 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.
- rivetted — 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.
- rivulose — (of plants) having irregular lines
- rotative — rotating or pertaining to rotation.
- sandiver — a whitish, saline scum formed on the surface of molten glass.
- savorier — pleasant or agreeable in taste or smell: a savory aroma.
- savories — pleasant or agreeable in taste or smell: a savory aroma.
- servicer — someone who services
- services — a service tree, especially Sorbus domestica.
- servient — subordinate; subservient; subject to another
- servitor — a person who is in or at the service of another; attendant.
- severity — harshness, sternness, or rigor: Their lives were marked by severity.
- shivaree — a mock serenade with kettles, pans, horns, and other noisemakers given for a newly married couple; charivari.
- shivered — to shake or tremble with cold, fear, excitement, etc.
- shrieval — of, belonging to, or relating to a sheriff.
- shvernik — Nikolai [nik-uh-lahy;; Russian nyi-kuh-lahy] /ˈnɪk əˌlaɪ;; Russian nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ/ (Show IPA), 1888–1970, Russian government official: president of the Soviet Union 1946–53.
- silvered — consisting of, made of, or plated with silver.