8-letter words containing g, r, e, v
- redgrave — Sir Michael (Scudamore) [skuhd-uh-mawr,, -mohr,, skoo-duh-] /ˈskʌd əˌmɔr,, -ˌmoʊr,, ˈsku də-/ (Show IPA), 1908–85, English actor.
- regroove — a long, narrow cut or indentation in a surface, as the cut in a board to receive the tongue of another board (tongue-and-groove joint) a furrow, or a natural indentation on an organism.
- reliving — to experience again, as an emotion.
- reveling — to take great pleasure or delight (usually followed by in): to revel in luxury.
- revenged — to exact punishment or expiation for a wrong on behalf of, especially in a resentful or vindictive spirit: He revenged his murdered brother.
- revering — to regard with respect tinged with awe; venerate: The child revered her mother.
- reviling — to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively.
- 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.
- 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.
- savagery — an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition; barbarity.
- savegard — safe conduct, protection
- scavager — a person whose responsibility is to ensure the streets are kept clean
- stravage — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- svedberg — The(odor) [tey-oh-dawr] /ˈteɪ oʊˌdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1884–1971, Swedish chemist: Nobel prize 1926.
- travelog — a lecture, slide show, or motion picture describing travels.
- turgenev — Ivan Sergeevich [ee-vahn syir-gye-yi-vyich] /iˈvɑn syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1818–83, Russian novelist.
- v region — variable region.
- vagaries — an unpredictable or erratic action, occurrence, course, or instance: the vagaries of weather; the vagaries of the economic scene.
- vargueno — a fall-front desk of the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries, having the form of a chest upon a small table.
- venogram — an x-ray of the veins produced by venography.
- verbiage — overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; wordiness; verbosity.
- verge on — the edge, rim, or margin of something: the verge of a desert; to operate on the verge of fraud.
- vergence — the turning motion of the eyeballs toward or away from each other. Compare convergence (def 4), divergence (def 3).
- vergency — an inclination or tendency; the act of verging or approaching
- verligte — (during apartheid) a person of any of the White political parties who supported liberal trends in government policy
- vicarage — the residence of a vicar.
- vigneron — a winemaker.
- villager — an inhabitant of a village.
- vinegary — of the nature of or resembling vinegar; sour; acid: a vinegary taste.
- vintager — a person who helps in the harvest of grapes for winemaking.
- virogene — a type of virus-forming gene
- 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.
- 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.
- wavering — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- 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.