8-letter words containing e, r, i, v
- silverly — with a silvery appearance or sound.
- sirvente — a medieval poem or song of heroic or satirical character, as composed by a troubadour.
- sit over — to be seated in an advantageous position on the left of (the player)
- skydiver — freefalling parachutist
- slipover — of or denoting a garment that can be put on easily over the head
- sniveler — to weep or cry with sniffling.
- sorptive — the state or process of being sorbed.
- souvenir — a usually small and relatively inexpensive article given, kept, or purchased as a reminder of a place visited, an occasion, etc.; memento.
- spivvery — the characteristic behaviour of a spiv
- sportive — playful or frolicsome; jesting, jocose, or merry: a sportive puppy.
- strivers — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
- survived — to continue to live or exist after the death, cessation, or occurrence of: His wife survived him. He survived the operation.
- svizzera — Italian name of Switzerland.
- thievery — the act or practice of thieving; theft.
- thrivers — to prosper; be fortunate or successful.
- tip over — to cause to assume a slanting or sloping position; incline; tilt.
- tirrivee — a tantrum.
- tiverton — a town in SE Rhode Island.
- tractive — having or exerting traction; drawing.
- trivalve — having three valves, as a shell.
- undriven — (of a vehicle) not driven
- universe — the totality of known or supposed objects and phenomena throughout space; the cosmos; macrocosm.
- unvaried — characterized by or exhibiting variety; various; diverse; diversified: varied backgrounds.
- unveiler — someone who or that which removes a veil (literally or figuratively); someone who unveils or reveals
- unvirtue — absence or lack of virtue; the state of having no virtue; vice
- up-river — a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels.
- v region — variable region.
- v series — (communications, standard) A set of standards published by the CCITT for "Data Communication over the Telephone Network". The following standards describe the important modulation techniques: V.17, V.21, V.22, V.22 bis, V.23, V.27 ter, V.29, V.32, V.32 bis. Other V standards include V.24, V.25 bis, V.42, V.42 bis.
- vacherin — a soft French or Swiss cheese made from cows' milk
- vagaries — an unpredictable or erratic action, occurrence, course, or instance: the vagaries of weather; the vagaries of the economic scene.
- valerian — (Publius Licinius Valerianus) died a.d. c260, Roman emperor 253–60.
- valkyrie — any of the beautiful maidens attendant upon Odin who bring the souls of slain warriors chosen by Odin or Tyr to Valhalla and there wait upon them.
- 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.
- valorize — 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.
- vaporize — to cause to change into vapor.
- variable — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- variance — the state, quality, or fact of being variable, divergent, different, or anomalous.
- variceal — of or relating to a varix
- varicose — abnormally or unusually enlarged or swollen: a varicose vein.
- varietal — of, pertaining to, designating, or characteristic of a variety.
- varitype — to operate a Varityper.
- velarium — an awning drawn over a theater or amphitheater as a protection from rain or the sun.
- velarize — to pronounce with velar articulation.
- veracity — habitual observance of truth in speech or statement; truthfulness: He was not noted for his veracity.
- verbatim — word for word and letter for letter; in exactly the same words.
- verbiage — overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; wordiness; verbosity.
- vercelli — a city in NW Italy, W of Milan.
- verdandi — any of three goddesses of fate, the goddess of the past (Urd) the goddess of the present (Verdandi) and the goddess of the future (Skuld)