7-letter words containing r, v
- prevote — a formal expression of opinion or choice, either positive or negative, made by an individual or body of individuals.
- privacy — the state of being apart from other people or concealed from their view; solitude; seclusion: Please leave the room and give me some privacy.
- privado — a close friend
- private — privacy
- privies — participating in the knowledge of something private or secret (usually followed by to): Many persons were privy to the plot.
- privily — in a privy manner; secretly.
- privity — private or secret knowledge.
- provand — food; provisions
- provant — supplied with provisions
- proverb — a word that can substitute for a verb or verb phrase, as do in They never attend board meetings, but we do regularly.
- provide — to make available; furnish: to provide employees with various benefits.
- provine — to plant (a vine) in preparation for propagation
- proviso — a clause in a statute, contract, or the like, by which a condition is introduced.
- provoke — to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
- provost — a person appointed to superintend or preside.
- purview — the range of operation, authority, control, concern, etc.
- pyruvic — of or derived from pyruvic acid.
- q fever — an acute, influenzalike disease caused by the rickettsia Coxiella burnetti.
- quavers — (of a person's voice) Shake or tremble in speaking, typically through nervousness or emotion.
- quavery — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
- quivers — Plural form of quiver.
- quivery — the act or state of quivering; a tremble or tremor.
- r-value — a measure of the resistance of an insulating or building material to heat flow, expressed as R-11, R-20, and so on; the higher the number, the greater the resistance to heat flow.
- ravaged — to work havoc upon; damage or mar by ravages: a face ravaged by grief.
- ravager — to work havoc upon; damage or mar by ravages: a face ravaged by grief.
- ravages — to work havoc upon; damage or mar by ravages: a face ravaged by grief.
- rave-up — a party, especially a wild one.
- raveled — to disentangle or unravel the threads or fibers of (a woven or knitted fabric, rope, etc.).
- raveler — to disentangle or unravel the threads or fibers of (a woven or knitted fabric, rope, etc.).
- ravelin — a V -shaped outwork outside the main ditch and covering the works between two bastions.
- ravenna — a former province of the Papal States, in NE Italy. Capital: Ravenna.
- ravined — marked or furrowed with ravines.
- ravings — If you describe what someone says or writes as their ravings, you mean that it makes no sense because they are mad or very ill.
- ravioli — small cases of pasta, often square, stuffed with a filling, usually of meat or cheese, and often served with a tomato sauce.
- re-view — a form of theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied.
- receive — to take into one's possession (something offered or delivered): to receive many gifts.
- recover — to cover again or anew.
- recurve — to curve or bend (something) back or down or (of something) to be so curved or bent
- redrive — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- reeving — to pass (a rope or the like) through a hole, ring, or the like.
- rehovot — a town in central Israel, SE of Tel Aviv.
- relevel — having no part higher than another; having a flat or even surface.
- releves — a rising up onto full point or half point from the flat of the feet.
- relieve — to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.).
- relievo — Obsolete. relief2 (defs 2, 3).
- relived — to experience again, as an emotion.
- reliver — to deliver up again, to restore
- removal — the act of removing.
- removed — remote; separate; not connected with; distinct from.
- remover — a person or thing that removes.