8-letter words containing o, v, e, r, s
- overwise — excessively or unusually wise: overwise for a child of her age.
- passover — Also called Pesach, Pesah. a Jewish festival that commemorates the exodus of the Jews from Egypt and is marked chiefly by the Seder ritual and the eating of matzoth. It begins on the 14th day of Nisan and is celebrated for eight days by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside of Israel and for seven days by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel.
- pervious — admitting of passage or entrance; permeable: pervious soil.
- presolve — to solve beforehand
- previous — coming or occurring before something else; prior: the previous owner.
- previsor — to foresee.
- proverbs — a word that can substitute for a verb or verb phrase, as do in They never attend board meetings, but we do regularly.
- pushover — Informal. anything done easily.
- ravenous — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
- reovirus — any large virus of the family Reoviridae, having double-stranded RNA and a polyhedral capsid, including those causing infantile gastroenteritis.
- resolved — firm in purpose or intent; determined.
- resolver — to come to a definite or earnest decision about; determine (to do something): I have resolved that I shall live to the full.
- revision — the act or work of revising.
- revisory — pertaining to or for the purpose of revision.
- rivulose — (of plants) having irregular lines
- sarajevo — a republic in S Europe: formerly (1945–92) a constituent republic of Yugoslavia. 19,909 sq. mi. (51,565 sq. km). Capital: Sarajevo.
- save for — Save for means the same as save.
- savorier — pleasant or agreeable in taste or smell: a savory aroma.
- savories — pleasant or agreeable in taste or smell: a savory aroma.
- savourer — a person who savours or seasons food
- see over — to inspect by making a tour of
- serajevo — Sarajevo.
- servitor — a person who is in or at the service of another; attendant.
- shoveler — a person or thing that shovels.
- sit over — to be seated in an advantageous position on the left of (the player)
- slipover — of or denoting a garment that can be put on easily over the head
- slovenry — slovenliness
- sorptive — the state or process of being sorbed.
- sourveld — (in South Africa) a type of grazing characterized by long coarse grass
- souvenir — a usually small and relatively inexpensive article given, kept, or purchased as a reminder of a place visited, an occasion, etc.; memento.
- sportive — playful or frolicsome; jesting, jocose, or merry: a sportive puppy.
- stepover — an instance of raising the foot over the ball while in possession in order to wrong-foot an opponent
- stopover — a brief stop in the course of a journey, as to eat, sleep, or visit friends.
- subcover — a set of subsets of a cover of a given set that also is a cover of the set.
- surveyor — a person whose occupation is surveying.
- 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.
- vaporise — to cause to change into vapor.
- varicose — abnormally or unusually enlarged or swollen: a varicose vein.
- ventrous — adventurous
- veronese — of or relating to the city or town of Verona.
- vertisol — a clay-rich soil in which deep cracks form during the dry season.
- viatores — a wayfarer; traveler.
- vin rosé — rosé
- viperous — of the nature of or resembling a viper: a viperous movement.
- 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.
- votaress — a woman who is a votary.
- votaries — a person who is bound by solemn religious vows, as a monk or a nun.