8-letter words containing i, r, e, v
- improver — a person or thing that improves.
- improves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of improve.
- incurved — Turned inwards.
- indeavor — Obsolete form of endeavor.
- indevour — Obsolete spelling of endeavour.
- ingroove — to cut a groove into
- innerved — Simple past tense and past participle of innerve.
- interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
- invaders — Plural form of invader.
- inventor — a person who invents, especially one who devises some new process, appliance, machine, or article; one who makes inventions.
- inverity — the state or quality of being untrue
- inversed — reversed in position, order, direction, or tendency.
- inverses — Plural form of inverse.
- inverted — to turn upside down.
- inverter — a person or thing that inverts.
- invertin — an enzyme, occurring in yeast and in the digestive juices of animals, that causes the inversion of cane sugar into invert sugar.
- invertor — any muscle that turns a limb or part inward.
- investor — to put (money) to use, by purchase or expenditure, in something offering potential profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
- invirile — unmanly
- invokers — Plural form of invoker.
- involver — Someone or something that involves.
- jarovize — to vernalize.
- kristeva — Julia, born 1941, French literary theorist, critic, and psychoanalyst, born in Bulgaria.
- l-driver — a learner-driver: a person who is learning to drive, has not yet passed the official driving test, and must be accompanied by a qualified driver and display L-plates on the car
- lavalier — an ornamental pendant, usually jeweled, worn on a chain around the neck.
- lawgiver — a person who promulgates a law or a code of laws.
- levering — Mechanics. a rigid bar that pivots about one point and that is used to move an object at a second point by a force applied at a third. Compare machine (def 4b).
- levirate — the custom of marriage by a man with his brother's widow, such marriage required in Biblical law if the deceased was childless. Deut. 25:5–10.
- lie over — to stay and wait until some future time
- listserv — any similar software program.
- livelier — full or suggestive of life or vital energy; active, vigorous, or brisk: a lively discussion.
- liveried — clad in livery, as servants: a liveried footman.
- liveries — Plural form of livery.
- livering — Anatomy. a large, reddish-brown, glandular organ located in the upper right side of the abdominal cavity, divided by fissures into five lobes and functioning in the secretion of bile and various metabolic processes.
- liverish — resembling liver, especially in color.
- livetrap — a trap for capturing a wild animal alive and without injury.
- liveware — /li:v'weir/ 1. A less common synonym for wetware 2. (Cambridge) Vermin. "Waiter, there's some liveware in my salad."
- livewire — Alternative spelling of live wire.
- lovebird — any of various small parrots, especially of the genus Agapornis, of Africa, noted for the affection shown one another and often kept as pets.
- lovelier — charmingly or exquisitely beautiful: a lovely flower.
- maravedi — a former gold coin issued by the Moors in Spain.
- maverick — Southwestern U.S. an unbranded calf, cow, or steer, especially an unbranded calf that is separated from its mother.
- misdrive — to drive or guide badly
- navicert — A form of passport permitting a neutral ship to traverse a blockade in wartime.
- noverint — a writ
- olivares — Conde-Ducque de, title of Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimental. 1587–1645, Spanish statesman: court favourite and prime minister (1621–43) of Philip IV. His attempts to establish Hapsburg domination of Europe ended in failure
- omnivore — someone or something that is omnivorous.
- outdrive — Drive a golf ball farther than (another player).
- outliver — (obsolete) A survivor.
- ovariole — any of several tubules that compose an insect ovary.