8-letter words containing v, a, r, e, s
- overrash — too rash
- 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
- overtask — to impose too heavy a task upon
- overwash — the act of washing over something
- 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.
- preshave — a liquid preparation, usually containing alcohol, for applying to the face to dry the skin and beard before shaving with an electric razor.
- privates — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- ravenous — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
- ravisher — to fill with strong emotion, especially joy.
- readvise — to give counsel to; offer an opinion or suggestion as worth following: I advise you to be cautious.
- reversal — an act or instance of reversing.
- rivaless — a female rival
- sandiver — a whitish, saline scum formed on the surface of molten glass.
- sarajevo — a republic in S Europe: formerly (1945–92) a constituent republic of Yugoslavia. 19,909 sq. mi. (51,565 sq. km). Capital: Sarajevo.
- savagery — an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition; barbarity.
- save for — Save for means the same as save.
- savegard — safe conduct, protection
- savorier — pleasant or agreeable in taste or smell: a savory aroma.
- savories — pleasant or agreeable in taste or smell: a savory aroma.
- savourer — a person who savours or seasons food
- scavager — a person whose responsibility is to ensure the streets are kept clean
- serajevo — Sarajevo.
- servable — to act as a servant.
- servqual — the provision of high-quality products by an organization backed by a high level of service for consumers
- severals — being more than two but fewer than many in number or kind: several ways of doing it.
- shivaree — a mock serenade with kettles, pans, horns, and other noisemakers given for a newly married couple; charivari.
- shrieval — of, belonging to, or relating to a sheriff.
- shvartze — Yiddish: Usually Disparaging and Offensive. schvartze.
- stravage — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- surveyal — the action of surveying
- 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.
- 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.
- 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