7-letter words containing a, l, v, e
- malvine — a female given name.
- marvell — Andrew, 1621–78, English poet and satirist.
- marvels — Plural form of marvel.
- midvale — a town in N Utah.
- movable — capable of being moved; not fixed in one place, position, or posture.
- naively — having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of artificiality; unsophisticated; ingenuous.
- novella — a tale or short story of the type contained in the Decameron of Boccaccio.
- ovalize — Of a circle, to become stretched out in one direction, thereby becoming an oval.
- overall — overalls, (used with a plural verb) loose, sturdy trousers, usually with a bib or biblike piece to which shoulder straps are attached, originally worn over other trousers to protect them, as by factory workers or farmers. long waterproof leggings.
- overlap — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
- overlax — too lax
- overlay — to lie over or upon, as a covering or stratum.
- overlea — a town in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
- ovulate — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
- p value — (statistics) The probability that the opposite of some hypothesis is true, based on some set of results; a way of expressing the significance of a statistical observation. The lower the P value, the more significant the result. For example, if the hypothesis was "This vaccine prevents flu" then the opposite hypothesis (the "null hypothesis") would be "This vaccine has no effect on flu". If the occurence of flu was measured in a sample of people taking the vaccine then one might say that the hypothesis was confirmed with a p value of 5%. That would mean there was a 5% chance of obtaining the same results or better from a similar sample of the whole population even if the vaccine had no effect.
- palaver — a conference or discussion.
- prevail — to be widespread or current; exist everywhere or generally: Silence prevailed along the funeral route.
- 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.
- 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.
- removal — the act of removing.
- revalue — to revise or reestimate the value of: efforts to revalue the dollar.
- revisal — the act of revising; revision.
- revival — restoration to life, consciousness, vigor, strength, etc.
- rivaled — a person who is competing for the same object or goal as another, or who tries to equal or outdo another; competitor.
- salvage — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
- salvete — welcome!
- savable — to rescue from danger or possible harm, injury, or loss: to save someone from drowning.
- saveloy — a highly seasoned, dried sausage.
- selvage — the edge of woven fabric finished so as to prevent raveling, often in a narrow tape effect, different from the body of the fabric.
- several — being more than two but fewer than many in number or kind: several ways of doing it.
- slavery — the condition of a slave; bondage.
- solvate — a compound formed by the interaction of a solvent and a solute.
- suavely — (of persons or their manner, speech, etc.) smoothly agreeable or polite; agreeably or blandly urbane.
- u-value — a measure of the flow of heat through an insulating or building material: the lower the U-value, the better the insulating ability.
- unalive — not aware of something
- unravel — to separate or disentangle the threads of (a woven or knitted fabric, a rope, etc.).
- upvalue — to raise the value of: to upvalue inventories.
- uvedale — Nicholas, Udall.
- vacuole — a membrane-bound cavity within a cell, often containing a watery liquid or secretion.
- vaguely — not clearly or explicitly stated or expressed: vague promises.
- valance — a short curtain or piece of drapery that is hung from the edge of a canopy, from the frame of a bed, etc.
- valence — a department in SE France. 2533 sq. mi. (6560 sq. km). Capital: Valence.
- valency — valence.
- valeric — pertaining to or derived from valerian.
- valerie — a female given name.
- valeted — a male servant who attends to the personal needs of his male employer, as by taking care of clothing or the like; manservant.
- vallate — bordered by a ridge, raised edge, or the like.
- vallejo — César [Spanish se-sahr] /Spanish ˈsɛ sɑr/ (Show IPA), 1895–1938, Peruvian poet.