8-letter words containing r, o, s, i, e
- sorptive — the state or process of being sorbed.
- sorriest — feeling regret, compunction, sympathy, pity, etc.: to be sorry to leave one's friends; to be sorry for a remark; to be sorry for someone in trouble.
- soterial — relating to salvation
- sourdine — mute (def 10).
- souvenir — a usually small and relatively inexpensive article given, kept, or purchased as a reminder of a place visited, an occasion, etc.; memento.
- spheroid — a solid geometrical figure similar in shape to a sphere, as an ellipsoid.
- spoonier — foolishly or sentimentally amorous.
- sportive — playful or frolicsome; jesting, jocose, or merry: a sportive puppy.
- steroids — any of a large group of fat-soluble organic compounds, as the sterols, bile acids, and sex hormones, most of which have specific physiological action.
- strigose — Botany. set with stiff bristles of hairs; hispid.
- strobile — a reproductive structure characterized by overlapping scalelike parts, as a pine cone or the fruit of the hop.
- stroheim — Erich von [er-ik] /ˈɛr ɪk/ (Show IPA), 1885–1957, U.S. actor and director, born in Austria.
- superior — higher in station, rank, degree, importance, etc.: a superior officer.
- tenorist — a person who sings tenor.
- theories — a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena: Einstein's theory of relativity. Synonyms: principle, law, doctrine.
- theorise — to form a theory or theories.
- theorist — a person who theorizes.
- timorese — of or relating to Timor.
- tiresome — causing or liable to cause a person to tire; wearisome: a tiresome job.
- topsider — a light canvas shoe
- tortoise — a turtle, especially a terrestrial turtle.
- trollies — trolley car.
- tyrosine — a crystalline amino acid, HOC 6 H 4 CH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, abundant in ripe cheese, that acts as a precursor of norepinephrine and dopamine. Symbol: Y. Abbreviation: Tyr;
- 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.
- 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.
- votaries — a person who is bound by solemn religious vows, as a monk or a nun.
- weirdoes — Plural form of weirdo.
- widowers — Plural form of widower.
- windrose — Alternative spelling of wind rose.
- wordiest — Superlative form of wordy.
- worksite — a location used for work, especially construction or manual labor: industrial worksites; tobacco-free worksites.
- workwise — In terms of work.
- worriers — Plural form of worrier.
- worthies — Plural form of worthy.