8-letter words containing v, i, r, g
- livering — Anatomy. a large, reddish-brown, glandular organ located in the upper right side of the abdominal cavity, divided by fissures into five lobes and functioning in the secretion of bile and various metabolic processes.
- louvring — to make a louver in; add louvers to: to louver a door.
- overgild — to cover with gilding.
- overgird — to gird too tightly
- overgive — to give up
- overhigh — too high
- overking — a supreme king
- overwing — to fly above
- ravaging — to work havoc upon; damage or mar by ravages: a face ravaged by grief.
- raveling — a tangle or complication.
- ravening — rapacious; voracious.
- ravigote — a highly seasoned velouté with white wine and vinegar, butter, cream, and mushrooms cooked in liquor, usually served hot with variety meats and poultry.
- re-given — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- reliving — to experience again, as an emotion.
- reveling — to take great pleasure or delight (usually followed by in): to revel in luxury.
- revering — to regard with respect tinged with awe; venerate: The child revered her mother.
- reviling — to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively.
- rig veda — one of the Vedas, a collection of 1028 hymns, dating from not later than the second millennium b.c.
- rig-veda — one of the Vedas, a collection of 1028 hymns, dating from not later than the second millennium b.c.
- ringdove — a small Old World dove, Streptopelia risoria, having a black half ring around the nape of the neck.
- rivaling — a person who is competing for the same object or goal as another, or who tries to equal or outdo another; competitor.
- riveting — a metal pin for passing through holes in two or more plates or pieces to hold them together, usually made with a head at one end, the other end being hammered into a head after insertion.
- rovingly — in a roving manner
- rsvp'ing — to reply to an invitation: Don't forget to RSVP before Thursday.
- savoring — the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste or of smell.
- starving — very hungry
- stravaig — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- striving — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
- thriving — to prosper; be fortunate or successful.
- v region — variable region.
- vagaries — an unpredictable or erratic action, occurrence, course, or instance: the vagaries of weather; the vagaries of the economic scene.
- vagarish — vaguely or somewhat vagarious; relating to a whim
- vaporing — that gives forth vapor.
- varginha — a city in E Brazil.
- verbiage — overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; wordiness; verbosity.
- verligte — (during apartheid) a person of any of the White political parties who supported liberal trends in government policy
- vicarage — the residence of a vicar.
- vigneron — a winemaker.
- vigorish — a charge paid on a bet, as to a bookie.
- vigoroso — (a musical direction) vigorous or spirited in manner.
- vigorous — full of or characterized by vigor: a vigorous effort.
- villager — an inhabitant of a village.
- vinegary — of the nature of or resembling vinegar; sour; acid: a vinegary taste.
- vintager — a person who helps in the harvest of grapes for winemaking.
- virginal — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a virgin: virginal purity.
- virginia — a state in the E United States, on the Atlantic coast: part of the historical South. 40,815 sq. mi. (105,710 sq. km). Capital: Richmond. Abbreviation: VA (for use with zip code), Va.
- virogene — a type of virus-forming gene
- virology — the science dealing with the study of viruses and the diseases caused by them.
- visegrad — a town in N Hungary, NW of Budapest on the Danube: site of summit in 1991 of the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland.
- wavering — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.