8-letter words containing vi
- qui vive — on the qui vive, on the alert; watchful: Special guards were on the qui vive for trespassers.
- 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.
- 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.
- redivide — to separate into parts, groups, sections, etc.
- reduviid — assassin bug.
- reinvite — to request the presence or participation of in a kindly, courteous, or complimentary way, especially to request to come or go to some place, gathering, entertainment, etc., or to do something: to invite friends to dinner.
- relevied — an imposing or collecting, as of a tax, by authority or force.
- reliving — to experience again, as an emotion.
- reovirus — any large virus of the family Reoviridae, having double-stranded RNA and a polyhedral capsid, including those causing infantile gastroenteritis.
- replevin — an action for the recovery of goods or chattels wrongfully taken or detained.
- rereview — to review again
- rerevise — a new or second revise or revised version
- retrovir — a brand of the drug zidovudine
- reviewal — the act of reviewing.
- reviewer — a person who reviews.
- revilers — to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively.
- reviling — to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively.
- revision — the act or work of revising.
- revisory — pertaining to or for the purpose of revision.
- revivify — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
- rovingly — in a roving manner
- salvific — of or relating to redemptive power.
- savviest — experienced, knowledgable, and well-informed; shrewd (often used in combination): consumers who are savvy about prices; a tech-savvy entrepreneur.
- sayville — a town on the S shore of Long Island, in SE New York.
- scivvies — Also called skivvy shirt. a man's cotton T-shirt.
- sea view — view over the ocean
- servicer — someone who services
- services — a service tree, especially Sorbus domestica.
- servient — subordinate; subservient; subject to another
- servitor — a person who is in or at the service of another; attendant.
- shelving — material for shelves.
- silvical — relating to silvics
- skivvies — Also called skivvy shirt. a man's cotton T-shirt.
- sleaving — to divide or separate into filaments, as silk.
- sleeving — the part of a garment that covers the arm, varying in form and length but commonly tubular.
- sovietic — relating to the Soviet Union
- spavined — suffering from or affected with spavin.
- starving — very hungry
- stevinus — Stevin, Simon.
- striving — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
- subvicar — an assistant to a vicar; a subordinate vicar
- subviral — of or relating to any macromolecule smaller in size or possessing a lesser degree of organization than a comparable intact viral particle.
- subvirus — an organism, esp a viral protein, smaller than a virus but with some of the characteristics of a virus
- survival — the act or fact of surviving, especially under adverse or unusual circumstances.
- survived — to continue to live or exist after the death, cessation, or occurrence of: His wife survived him. He survived the operation.
- survivor — a person or thing that survives.
- svizzera — Italian name of Switzerland.
- sylviine — (of a bird) belonging to the subfamily Sylviinae
- synovial — a lubricating fluid resembling the white of an egg, secreted by certain membranes, as those of the joints.