8-letter words containing e, v, r, y
- overhype — to promote excessively
- overmany — an excess of people
- overplay — to exaggerate or overemphasize (one's role in a play, an emotion, an effect, etc.): The young actor overplayed Hamlet shamelessly. The director of the movie had overplayed the pathos.
- overstay — to stay beyond the time, limit, or duration of; outstay: to overstay one's welcome.
- oversway — to overrule
- overtype — to replace (typed text) by typing new text in the same place
- overwary — excessively wary
- overwily — too crafty
- overyear — to keep for a following year
- purveyor — a person who purveys, provides, or supplies: a purveyor of foods; a purveyor of lies.
- pyruvate — an ester or salt of pyruvic acid.
- reconvey — to convey again.
- recovery — an act of recovering.
- resurvey — a new survey.
- reverify — to verify again
- revisory — pertaining to or for the purpose of revision.
- revivify — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
- riverway — the part of a river that boats can travel on, or the route or course of a river
- savagery — an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition; barbarity.
- severely — harsh; unnecessarily extreme: severe criticism; severe laws.
- severity — harshness, sternness, or rigor: Their lives were marked by severity.
- seversky — Alexander Procofieff de [pruh-koh-fee-ef duh] /prəˈkoʊ fiˌɛf də/ (Show IPA), 1894–1974, U.S. airplane designer, manufacturer, and writer; born in Russia.
- silverly — with a silvery appearance or sound.
- skydiver — freefalling parachutist
- slovenry — slovenliness
- spivvery — the characteristic behaviour of a spiv
- surveyal — the action of surveying
- surveyed — to take a general or comprehensive view of or appraise, as a situation, area of study, etc.
- surveyor — a person whose occupation is surveying.
- sylvaner — a white grape grown in the Alsace region of France and in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria.
- thievery — the act or practice of thieving; theft.
- travesty — a grotesque or debased likeness or imitation: a travesty of justice.
- trevally — any of several popular Australian food fish of the genus Caranx, especially Caranx georgianus.
- 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.
- varitype — to operate a Varityper.
- varletry — varlets collectively.
- vasarely — Victor. 1908–97, French painter, born in Hungary; a leading exponent of op art
- vauntery — bravado; boasting
- veracity — habitual observance of truth in speech or statement; truthfulness: He was not noted for his veracity.
- verbally — of or relating to words: verbal ability.
- verdancy — green with vegetation; covered with growing plants or grass: a verdant oasis.
- vergency — an inclination or tendency; the act of verging or approaching
- vespiary — a nest of social wasps.
- vestiary — of or relating to garments or vestments.
- vexatory — vexing, inconvenient, or irritating
- vicenary — of, relating to, or consisting of twenty.
- vinegary — of the nature of or resembling vinegar; sour; acid: a vinegary taste.
- vineyard — a plantation of grapevines, especially one producing grapes for winemaking.
- virilely — in a virile manner
- voyageur — (in Canada) a person who is an expert woodsman, boatman, and guide in remote regions, especially one employed by fur companies to transport supplies to and from their distant stations.