8-letter words containing v, i, r
- favorite — a person or thing regarded with special favor or preference: That song is an old favorite of mine.
- fervidly — heated or vehement in spirit, enthusiasm, etc.: a fervid orator.
- fervidor — Thermidor.
- fevering — an abnormal condition of the body, characterized by undue rise in temperature, quickening of the pulse, and disturbance of various body functions.
- feverish — having fever.
- flivvers — Plural form of flivver.
- folivore — any chiefly leaf-eating animal or other organism, as the koala of Australia that subsists on eucalyptus.
- foregive — Lb transitive To give ahead of time; give in advance.
- forgiven — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- forgiver — A person who forgives.
- forgives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of forgive.
- fravashi — the soul of a dead ancestor.
- freeview — In Britain, Freeview is a free service providing digital terrestrial television.
- frictive — Of, relating to, or caused by friction.
- fructive — fruitful
- fruitive — able to enjoy or to produce enjoyment.
- gavarnie — a waterfall in SW France, in the Pyrenees. 1384 feet (422 meters) high.
- give ear — to give attention, esp. favorable attention; listen; heed
- go viral — If a video, image, or story goes viral, it spreads quickly and widely on the Internet through social media and e-mail.
- godavari — a river flowing SE from W India to the Bay of Bengal. 900 miles (1450 km) long.
- gravidae — a woman's status regarding pregnancy; usually followed by a roman numeral designating the number of times the woman has been pregnant.
- gravidas — Plural form of gravida.
- gravitas — seriousness or sobriety, as of conduct or speech.
- gravitic — Of or pertaining to gravity. (Archaic/rare, gravitational is more common, still seen though in compounds like magnetogravitic.).
- graviton — the theoretical quantum of gravitation, usually assumed to be an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle and that has zero rest mass and charge and a spin of two.
- greaving — Present participle of greave.
- greville — Fulke [foo lk] /fʊlk/ (Show IPA), 1st Baron Brooke, 1554–1628, English poet and statesman.
- grevious — Misspelling of grievous.
- grievand — One who is the object of a formal grievance.
- grievant — a person who submits a complaint for arbitration.
- grievers — to feel grief or great sorrow: She has grieved over his death for nearly three years.
- grieving — to feel grief or great sorrow: She has grieved over his death for nearly three years.
- grievous — causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
- grooving — a long, narrow cut or indentation in a surface, as the cut in a board to receive the tongue of another board (tongue-and-groove joint) a furrow, or a natural indentation on an organism.
- guaviare — a river in central and E Colombia, flowing E to the Orinoco River. 650 (1046 km) long.
- gulliver — (slang) one's head.
- havering — a borough of Greater London, England.
- havildar — A military rank of the British Indian Army and of the modern armies of India and Pakistan, equivalent to sergeant.
- henry iv — 1050–1106, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and king of Germany 1056–1106.
- henry vi — 1165–97, king of Germany 1190–97; king of Sicily 1194–97; emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1191–97 (son of Frederick I).
- hiveward — (of a bee's movement) towards the hive
- horovitz — Israel, born 1939, U.S. playwright.
- hovering — Present participle of hover.
- iarovize — to vernalize.
- improved — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
- improver — a person or thing that improves.
- improves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of improve.
- in favor — in agreement
- in vitro — a specialized technique by which an ovum, especially a human one, is fertilized by sperm outside the body, with the resulting embryo later implanted in the uterus for gestation.
- incurved — Turned inwards.