8-letter words containing s, i, l, v
- louis xv — 1710–74, king of France 1715–74 (great grandson of Louis XIV).
- lovelies — charmingly or exquisitely beautiful: a lovely flower.
- loveship — The act of falling in or making love; courtship.
- lovesick — languishing with love: a lovesick adolescent.
- maldives — a republic in the Indian Ocean, SW of India, consisting of about 2000 islands: British protectorate 1887–1965. 115 sq. mi. (298 sq. km). Capital: Male.
- malvasia — a sweet grape from which malmsey wine is made.
- malvinas — a female given name.
- misvalue — (transitive) To value wrongly: to misjudge the value of.
- navalism — the promotion of naval interests
- novelish — (esp of a name or a person) characteristic of a novel; having qualities like those of a character or scene in a novel; fanciful; romantic
- novelism — an innovative idea or concept; innovation; novelty
- novelist — a person who writes novels.
- objvlisp — 1984. An object-oriented extension of Vlisp. Reflective architecture.
- olivares — Conde-Ducque de, title of Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimental. 1587–1645, Spanish statesman: court favourite and prime minister (1621–43) of Philip IV. His attempts to establish Hapsburg domination of Europe ended in failure
- outlives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outlive.
- oversail — a projection
- overslip — to leave out; miss.
- plausive — applauding.
- pluviose — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the fifth month of the year, extending from January 20 to February 18.
- pluvious — of or relating to rain; rainy.
- pulvinus — Botany. a cushionlike swelling at the base of a leaf or leaflet, at the point of junction with the axis.
- resilver — to silver again, to coat or plate again with silver
- revilers — to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively.
- rivaless — a female rival
- rivulose — (of plants) having irregular lines
- salivary — a viscid, watery fluid, secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands, that functions in the tasting, chewing, and swallowing of food, moistens the mouth, and starts the digestion of starches.
- salivate — to produce saliva.
- salvific — of or relating to redemptive power.
- sayville — a town on the S shore of Long Island, in SE New York.
- semioval — shaped like half of an oval
- shelving — material for shelves.
- shrieval — of, belonging to, or relating to a sheriff.
- silvanus — the god of forests and uncultivated land, later worshiped under three aspects, as the protector of the house, of the herds, and of the boundaries of the farm.
- silvassa — a union territory of India, located between Gujarat and Maharashtra, N of Mumbai. 190 sq. mi. (491 sq. km). Capital: Silvassa.
- silvatic — of or relating to the forest; sylvan
- silvered — consisting of, made of, or plated with silver.
- silverly — with a silvery appearance or sound.
- silvical — relating to silvics
- slavonia — a historic region in N Croatia.
- slavonic — Slavonian.
- sleaving — to divide or separate into filaments, as silk.
- sleeving — the part of a garment that covers the arm, varying in form and length but commonly tubular.
- slipover — of or denoting a garment that can be put on easily over the head
- slovakia — a republic in central Europe: formerly a part of Czechoslovakia; under German protection 1939–45; independent since 1993. 18,931 sq. mi. (49,035 sq. km). Capital: Bratislava.
- slovenia — a republic in SE Europe: formerly part of Yugoslavia. 7819 sq. mi. (20,250 sq. km). Capital: Ljubljana.
- sniveled — to weep or cry with sniffling.
- sniveler — to weep or cry with sniffling.
- solutive — a solvent or laxative
- souvlaki — a dish similar to shish kebab made with lamb.
- stievely — in a firm way