8-letter words containing r, v, a
- overrake — (of water) to break over the bow of (a ship) in a solid mass.
- overrank — to assign an unnecessarily high rank to
- overrash — too rash
- overrate — to rate or appraise too highly; overestimate: I think you overrate their political influence.
- overread — to read over or reread
- oversail — a projection
- oversale — the selling of more than is available
- oversalt — to put too much salt in
- oversave — to put (too much money) into savings
- overseas — over, across, or beyond the sea; abroad: to be sent overseas.
- oversman — an overseer
- oversoak — to soak too much
- overstay — to stay beyond the time, limit, or duration of; outstay: to overstay one's welcome.
- oversway — to overrule
- overtake — to catch up with in traveling or pursuit; draw even with: By taking a cab to the next town, we managed to overtake and board the train.
- overtalk — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- overtame — too tame
- overtart — too bitter
- overtask — to impose too heavy a task upon
- overwarm — to make too warm
- overwary — excessively wary
- overwash — the act of washing over something
- overweak — too weak
- overwear — to use or wear excessively; wear out; exhaust; tax: needlessly overwearing her best workers; phrases overworn by repetition.
- overwrap — to cover with a wrapping
- overyear — to keep for a following year
- overzeal — an excess of zeal
- palgrave — Francis Turner, 1824–97, English critic, poet, and anthologist.
- paravail — being below or inferior to all others; specifically, being a tenant of one who holds land of another who is also a tenant: a tenant paravail.
- paravane — an underwater defensive device against mines, consisting of a pair of torpedo-shaped vanes towed at the bow of a ship, usually a minesweeper, by cables that can cut the cable of a moored mine, causing the mine to rise to the surface, where it can be destroyed or removed from the water.
- paravant — first; pre-eminently
- paravent — a screen against a draft or the wind.
- parvanov — Georgi. born 1957, Bulgarian politician: president of Bulgaria (2000–2012)
- parvenue — a woman who, having risen socially or economically, is considered to be an upstart or to lack the appropriate refinement for her new position
- parzival — Percival.
- 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.
- pavlodar — a city in NE Kazakhstan.
- perceval — Spencer, 1762–1812, British statesman: prime minister 1809–12.
- percival — Also, Perceval, Percivale. Arthurian Romance. a knight of King Arthur's court who sought the Holy Grail: comparable to Parzival or Parsifal in Teutonic legend.
- peruvian — Spanish Perú [pe-roo] /pɛˈru/ (Show IPA). a republic in W South America. 496,222 sq. mi. (1,285,215 sq. km). Capital: Lima.
- perviate — to enter, bore into, or run through
- precaval — See under vena cava.
- preshave — a liquid preparation, usually containing alcohol, for applying to the face to dry the skin and beard before shaving with an electric razor.
- prevalue — to value beforehand
- primeval — of or relating to the first age or ages, especially of the world: primeval forms of life.
- privates — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- provable — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- provably — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- proviral — relating to a provirus
- pulvinar — a cushioned couch kept in readiness for any visitation of a god. a cushioned seat at a circus.