8-letter words containing a, t, v
- aviarist — a person who keeps an aviary
- aviating — Present participle of aviate.
- aviation — Aviation is the operation and production of aircraft.
- aviators — Plural form of aviator.
- aviatrix — a female aviator
- avigator — aerial navigation.
- avoidant — (of behaviour) demonstrating a tendency to avoid intimacy or interaction with others
- batavian — of or relating to Batavia (a former name for Holland or Jakarta) or its inhabitants
- bevatron — a proton synchrotron at the University of California
- bivalent — (of homologous chromosomes) associated together in pairs
- bloviate — to talk at length, esp in an insubstantial but inflated manner
- bonavist — hyacinth bean.
- breviate — a short account; a summary
- cable tv — a television system in which a high antenna and one or more dish antennas receive signals from distant and local stations, electronic satellite relays, etc. and transmit them by direct cable to the receivers of persons subscribing to the system
- captived — Simple past tense and past participle of captive.
- captives — Plural form of captive; persons held prisoner.
- caritive — (in certain inflected languages, especially of the Caucasian group) abessive.
- carveout — A small company created from a larger one.
- cavatina — a solo song resembling a simple aria
- cave art — paintings and engravings on the walls of caves and rock-shelters, especially naturalistic depictions of animals, produced by Upper Paleolithic peoples of western Europe between about 28,000 and 10,000 years ago.
- caveated — Simple past tense and past participle of caveat.
- caveator — a person who enters a caveat
- cavitand — (chemistry) any of several classes of macrocycle that have a shape containing a cavity in which a guest molecule or ion may fit.
- cavitary — having or containing cavities
- cavitate — to form cavities or bubbles
- cavitied — Having cavities.
- cavities — Plural form of cavity.
- cavorted — Simple past tense and past participle of cavort.
- centavos — Plural form of centavo.
- cervelat — a smoked sausage made from pork and beef
- cessavit — (UK, legal, obsolete) A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
- chavette — a young working-class woman whose tastes, although sometimes expensive, are considered vulgar by some
- chevalet — the piece of wood in a musical instrument that the strings are stretched over and which passes on their movement or oscillation to the main part of the instrument
- cistvaen — a pre-Christian stone coffin or burial chamber
- clavated — Clavate; club-shaped.
- clavinet — An electrophonic keyboard instrument, an electronically amplified clavichord with a distinctive bright staccato sound.
- cleaveth — Archaic third-person singular form of cleave.
- coactive — acting together.
- conative — denoting an aspect of verbs in some languages used to indicate the effort of the agent in performing the activity described by the verb
- covalent — the number of electron pairs that an atom can share with other atoms.
- covenant — A covenant is a formal written agreement between two or more people or groups of people which is recognized in law.
- creative — A creative person has the ability to invent and develop original ideas, especially in the arts.
- cultivar — a variety of a plant that was produced from a natural species and is maintained by cultivation
- curative — Something that has curative properties can cure people's illnesses.
- curvital — of or relating to curvature, esp in geometry
- davenant — Sir William. 1606–68, English dramatist and poet: poet laureate (1638–68). His plays include Love and Honour (1634)
- daventry — a town in central England, in Northamptonshire: light industries, site of an important international radio transmitter. Pop: 21 731 (2001)
- delative — noting a case whose distinctive function is to indicate place down from which.
- derivate — derived
- devasted — Simple past tense and past participle of devast.