7-letter words containing s, r, i, v
- rivulus — any of several killifishes of the genus Rivulus, native to small streams of tropical America, often kept in aquariums.
- rsvping — to reply to an invitation: Don't forget to RSVP before Thursday.
- rustavi — a city in the SE Georgian Republic, SE of Tbilisi.
- savarin — a spongelike cake leavened with yeast, baked in a ring mold, and often soaked with a rum syrup.
- saviour — a person who saves, rescues, or delivers: the savior of the country.
- savvier — experienced, knowledgable, and well-informed; shrewd (often used in combination): consumers who are savvy about prices; a tech-savvy entrepreneur.
- scrieve — to glide or walk along smoothly
- service — Robert W(illiam) 1874–1958, Canadian writer, born in England.
- servile — slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning: servile flatterers.
- serving — the act, manner, or right of serving, as in tennis.
- servite — a member of an order of mendicant friars, founded in Florence in 1233, engaged in fostering devotion to the Virgin Mary.
- shivers — an attack of shivering, esp caused by fear or illness
- shivery — readily breaking into shivers or fragments; brittle.
- shrieve — sheriff.
- shrivel — shrink, dry up
- shriven — a past participle of shrive.
- shriver — (Robert) Sargent, Jr [sahr-juh nt] /ˈsɑr dʒənt/ (Show IPA), 1915–2011, U.S. businessman and government official: first director of the U.S. Peace Corps, 1961–66.
- sievers — Eduard [ey-doo-ahrt] /ˈeɪ du ɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1850–1932, German philologist.
- sievert — the standard unit in the International System of Units (SI) of dose equivalent having the same biological effect as one joule of x-rays per kilogram of recipient mass (or one gray): The average person receives about 2 to 3 one-thousandths of a sievert per year from naturally occurring radiation in the environment. Abbreviation: Sv.
- silvern — made of or like silver.
- silvery — resembling silver; of a lustrous grayish-white color: the silvery moon.
- strived — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
- striven — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
- striver — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
- strives — vigorous or bitter conflict, discord, or antagonism: to be at strife.
- stuiver — stiver (def 1).
- surveil — to place under surveillance.
- surview — a survey (with the eyes or mind)
- survive — to remain alive after the death of someone, the cessation of something, or the occurrence of some event; continue to live: Few survived after the holocaust.
- sverige — Swedish name of Sweden.
- thrives — to prosper; be fortunate or successful.
- torsive — twisted
- travois — a transport device, formerly used by the Plains Indians, consisting of two poles joined by a frame and drawn by an animal.
- treviso — a city in NE Italy.
- treviss — a partition in a stable for keeping animals apart
- trivias — (in Roman religion) Hecate: so called because she was the goddess of the crossroads.
- unvisor — to remove a visor from
- varices — plural of varix.
- various — of different kinds, as two or more things; differing one from another: Various experiments have not proved his theory.
- varnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
- varsity — any first-string team, especially in sports, that represents a school, college, university, or the like: He is on the varsity in tennis and in debating.
- ventris — Michael George Francis, 1922–56, English architect and linguist.
- veriest — precise; particular: That is the very item we want.
- verismo — the use of everyday life and actions in artistic works: introduced into opera in the early 1900s in reaction to contemporary conventions, which were seen as artificial and untruthful.
- veritas — truth.
- versify — to relate, describe, or treat (something) in verse.
- versine — versed sine.
- versing — (not in technical use) a stanza.
- version — a particular account of some matter, as from one person or source, contrasted with some other account: two different versions of the accident.
- vickers — Jon, born 1926, Canadian operatic tenor.