8-letter words containing r, e, v, s
- oversoft — too soft
- oversold — simple past tense and past participle of oversell.
- oversoon — too soon
- oversoul — (especially in transcendentalism) a supreme reality or mind; the spiritual unity of all being.
- overspin — topspin.
- overstay — to stay beyond the time, limit, or duration of; outstay: to overstay one's welcome.
- overstep — to go beyond; exceed: to overstep one's authority.
- overstir — to stir too much
- oversuds — to produce too much lather
- oversure — too sure (so as to be presumptuous)
- oversway — to overrule
- overswim — to swim across
- overtask — to impose too heavy a task upon
- overused — to use too much or too often: to overuse an expression.
- overwash — the act of washing over something
- 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.
- perverse — willfully determined or disposed to go counter to what is expected or desired; contrary.
- pervious — admitting of passage or entrance; permeable: pervious soil.
- preserve — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
- preshave — a liquid preparation, usually containing alcohol, for applying to the face to dry the skin and beard before shaving with an electric razor.
- presolve — to solve beforehand
- previous — coming or occurring before something else; prior: the previous owner.
- previsit — to visit beforehand
- previsor — to foresee.
- privates — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- 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.
- ravisher — to fill with strong emotion, especially joy.
- re-serve — to serve again
- readvise — to give counsel to; offer an opinion or suggestion as worth following: I advise you to be cautious.
- receives — to take into one's possession (something offered or delivered): to receive many gifts.
- reinvest — to put (money) to use, by purchase or expenditure, in something offering potential profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
- renverse — performed with the body bent from the waist: a pirouette renversé.
- reovirus — any large virus of the family Reoviridae, having double-stranded RNA and a polyhedral capsid, including those causing infantile gastroenteritis.
- rerevise — a new or second revise or revised version
- reserved — kept in reserve; forming a reserve: a reserve fund; a reserve supply.
- reserves — a part of an army or formation not committed to immediate action in a military engagement
- resilver — to silver again, to coat or plate again with silver
- 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.
- restrive — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
- resurvey — a new survey.
- revelers — to take great pleasure or delight (usually followed by in): to revel in luxury.
- reveries — a state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing: lost in reverie.
- reverist — someone who tends to daydream or is inclined to reveries
- reversal — an act or instance of reversing.
- reversed — opposite or contrary in position, direction, order, or character: an impression reverse to what was intended; in reverse sequence.
- reversis — a type of card game which was popular in the 17th and 18th centuries