8-letter words containing e, v, r, s, i
- 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.
- thrivers — to prosper; be fortunate or successful.
- universe — the totality of known or supposed objects and phenomena throughout space; the cosmos; macrocosm.
- 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.
- vagaries — an unpredictable or erratic action, occurrence, course, or instance: the vagaries of weather; the vagaries of the economic scene.
- 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.
- varicose — abnormally or unusually enlarged or swollen: a varicose vein.
- verifies — to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate: Events verified his prediction.
- veristic — the theory that rigid representation of truth and reality is essential to art and literature, and therefore the ugly and vulgar must be included.
- verities — the state or quality of being true; accordance with fact or reality: to question the verity of a statement.
- versicle — a little verse.
- versiera — witch of Agnesi.
- vertices — a plural of vertex.
- vertisol — a clay-rich soil in which deep cracks form during the dry season.
- vespiary — a nest of social wasps.
- vestiary — of or relating to garments or vestments.
- viatores — a wayfarer; traveler.
- vicaress — a rank of nun
- victress — a woman who is victorious.
- villiers — Frederic, 1852–1922, English artist and war correspondent.
- vin rosé — rosé
- viperous — of the nature of or resembling a viper: a viperous movement.
- 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.
- 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.