8-letter words containing s, e, r, v
- 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.
- stravage — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- strivers — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
- subcover — a set of subsets of a cover of a given set that also is a cover of the set.
- subserve — to be useful or instrumental in promoting (a purpose, action, etc.): Light exercise subserves digestion.
- surveyal — the action of surveying
- surveyed — to take a general or comprehensive view of or appraise, as a situation, area of study, etc.
- surveyor — a person whose occupation is surveying.
- survived — to continue to live or exist after the death, cessation, or occurrence of: His wife survived him. He survived the operation.
- svedberg — The(odor) [tey-oh-dawr] /ˈteɪ oʊˌdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1884–1971, Swedish chemist: Nobel prize 1926.
- sverdrup — Otto Neumann [awt-toh noi-mahn] /ˈɔt toʊ ˈnɔɪ mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1855?–1930, Norwegian explorer of the Arctic.
- svizzera — Italian name of Switzerland.
- sylvaner — a white grape grown in the Alsace region of France and in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria.
- temesvar — Hungarian name of Timişoara.
- the revs — engine speed, measured in revolutions per minute
- thrivers — to prosper; be fortunate or successful.
- traverse — to pass or move over, along, or through.
- travesty — a grotesque or debased likeness or imitation: a travesty of justice.
- tsarevna — a daughter of a czar.
- universe — the totality of known or supposed objects and phenomena throughout space; the cosmos; macrocosm.
- unserved — to act as a servant.
- unsevere — harsh; unnecessarily extreme: severe criticism; severe laws.
- unversed — experienced; practiced; skilled; learned (usually followed by in): She was well versed in Greek and Latin.
- v series — (communications, standard) A set of standards published by the CCITT for "Data Communication over the Telephone Network". The following standards describe the important modulation techniques: V.17, V.21, V.22, V.22 bis, V.23, V.27 ter, V.29, V.32, V.32 bis. Other V standards include V.24, V.25 bis, V.42, V.42 bis.
- vagaries — an unpredictable or erratic action, occurrence, course, or instance: the vagaries of weather; the vagaries of the economic scene.
- 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.
- vampires — a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.
- vaporise — to cause to change into vapor.
- varicose — abnormally or unusually enlarged or swollen: a varicose vein.
- vasarely — Victor. 1908–97, French painter, born in Hungary; a leading exponent of op art
- vasteras — a city in central Sweden.
- ventrous — adventurous
- verbless — any member of a class of words that function as the main elements of predicates, that typically express action, state, or a relation between two things, and that may be inflected for tense, aspect, voice, mood, and to show agreement with their subject or object.
- verifies — to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate: Events verified his prediction.
- veristic — the theory that rigid representation of truth and reality is essential to art and literature, and therefore the ugly and vulgar must be included.
- verities — the state or quality of being true; accordance with fact or reality: to question the verity of a statement.
- veronese — of or relating to the city or town of Verona.
- verselet — a small verse
- verseman — a man who writes verse
- versicle — a little verse.
- versiera — witch of Agnesi.
- vertices — a plural of vertex.
- vertisol — a clay-rich soil in which deep cracks form during the dry season.
- vesperal — the part of an antiphonary containing the chants for vespers.
- vespiary — a nest of social wasps.
- vestiary — of or relating to garments or vestments.
- vesturer — a person in charge of church vestments
- viatores — a wayfarer; traveler.
- vicaress — a rank of nun