8-letter words containing v, o, r, u
- overhunt — to hunt in an unsustainable manner
- overjump — to jump too far over
- overjust — too just
- overloud — too loud
- overlush — excessively lush
- overmuch — If something happens overmuch, it happens too much or very much.
- overplus — an excess over a particular amount; surplus: After the harvest the overplus was distributed among the tenantry.
- overpump — to pump too much so as to deplete
- overrude — very rude
- overruff — the act of overtrumping.
- overrule — to rule against or disallow the arguments of (a person): The senator was overruled by the committee chairman.
- oversoul — (especially in transcendentalism) a supreme reality or mind; the spiritual unity of all being.
- oversuds — to produce too much lather
- oversure — too sure (so as to be presumptuous)
- overture — an opening or initiating move toward negotiations, a new relationship, an agreement, etc.; a formal or informal proposal or offer: overtures of peace; a shy man who rarely made overtures of friendship.
- overturn — to destroy the power of; overthrow; defeat; vanquish.
- overurge — to urge too strongly
- overused — to use too much or too often: to overuse an expression.
- pervious — admitting of passage or entrance; permeable: pervious soil.
- poxvirus — any of a group of large, brick-shaped DNA-containing viruses that infect humans and other animals, including the viruses of smallpox and various other poxes.
- previous — coming or occurring before something else; prior: the previous owner.
- provirus — a viral form that is incorporated into the genetic material of a host cell.
- pullover — Also called slipover. a garment, especially a sweater, that must be drawn over the head to be put on.
- purveyor — a person who purveys, provides, or supplies: a purveyor of foods; a purveyor of lies.
- pushover — Informal. anything done easily.
- put over — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- ravenous — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
- reovirus — any large virus of the family Reoviridae, having double-stranded RNA and a polyhedral capsid, including those causing infantile gastroenteritis.
- revolute — rolled backward or downward; rolled backward at the tip or margin, as a leaf.
- rivulose — (of plants) having irregular lines
- run over — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- savorous — the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste or of smell.
- savourer — a person who savours or seasons food
- savourly — in a savouring or enjoyable manner; passionately
- sourveld — (in South Africa) a type of grazing characterized by long coarse grass
- souvenir — a usually small and relatively inexpensive article given, kept, or purchased as a reminder of a place visited, an occasion, etc.; memento.
- subcover — a set of subsets of a cover of a given set that also is a cover of the set.
- surveyor — a person whose occupation is surveying.
- survivor — a person or thing that survives.
- trouvere — one of a class of medieval poets who flourished in northern France during the 12th and 13th centuries, wrote in langue d'oïl, and composed chiefly the chansons de geste and works on the themes of courtly love.
- trouveur — trouvère.
- truelove — a sweetheart; a truly loving or loved person.
- turnover — an act or result of turning over; upset.
- unproved — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- unproven — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- unsavory — not savory; tasteless or insipid: an unsavory meal.
- valorous — having valor; courageous; valiant; brave.
- valuator — to set a value on; appraise.
- vaporous — having the form or characteristics of vapor: a vaporous cloud.
- vargueno — a fall-front desk of the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries, having the form of a chest upon a small table.