7-letter words containing v, e, r
- prepave — to plan a journey (esp spiritual) in advance
- prevail — to be widespread or current; exist everywhere or generally: Silence prevailed along the funeral route.
- prevene — to come before; to anticipate
- prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
- preverb — a element before the root of a verb that combines to form a lexical unit, as post- in postdate.
- prévert — Jacques (ʒak). 1900–77, Parisian poet, satirist, and writer of film scripts, noted esp for his song poems. He was a member of the surrealist group from 1925 to 1929
- preview — an earlier or previous view.
- previse — to foresee.
- prevost — Marcel [mar-sel] /marˈsɛl/ (Show IPA), 1862–1941, French novelist and dramatist.
- prevote — a formal expression of opinion or choice, either positive or negative, made by an individual or body of individuals.
- private — privacy
- privies — participating in the knowledge of something private or secret (usually followed by to): Many persons were privy to the plot.
- 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
- provoke — to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
- purview — the range of operation, authority, control, concern, etc.
- 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.
- 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.
- replevy — to recover possession of by replevin.
- reprove — to criticize or correct, especially gently: to reprove a pupil for making a mistake.