8-letter words containing a, t, v
- taxative — of, relating to, or involving taxation
- tel aviv — a city in W central Israel: one of the centers of Jewish immigration following World War II.
- temesvar — Hungarian name of Timişoara.
- tevatron — an accelerator in which protons or antiprotons are raised to energies of a few trillion electron-volts.
- the navy — the branch of a country's armed services comprising such ships, their crews, and all their supporting services and equipment
- the oval — a cricket ground in south London, in the borough of Lambeth
- the vast — immense or boundless space
- tidewave — the swell of the earth's water levels as the tide moves
- titivate — titillate.
- torshavn — the capital of the Faeroe Islands, on the S tip of Streymoy Island.
- tovarich — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- tractive — having or exerting traction; drawing.
- travails — painfully difficult or burdensome work; toil.
- traveled — used or designed for use while traveling: a travel alarm clock.
- traveler — a person or thing that travels.
- travelog — a lecture, slide show, or motion picture describing travels.
- traverse — to pass or move over, along, or through.
- travesty — a grotesque or debased likeness or imitation: a travesty of justice.
- trevally — any of several popular Australian food fish of the genus Caranx, especially Caranx georgianus.
- trivalve — having three valves, as a shell.
- tsarevna — a daughter of a czar.
- tuvaluan — a parliamentary state consisting of a group of islands in the central Pacific, S of the equator: a former British colony; gained independence 1978. 10 sq. mi. (26 sq. km). Capital: Funafuti.
- tv table — a small portable folding table used for an individual serving.
- tzarevna — a daughter of a czar.
- unactive — inactive, listless, or idle
- unnative — not native or natural
- vacantly — having no contents; empty; void: a vacant niche.
- vacating — to give up possession or occupancy of: to vacate an apartment.
- vacation — a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday: Schoolchildren are on vacation now.
- vagility — the ability of an organism to move about freely and migrate.
- vaginant — (of a leaf) sheathing its stem or branch with its base
- vaginate — having a vagina or sheath; sheathed.
- vagotomy — the surgical severance of vagus nerve fibers, performed to reduce acid secretion by the stomach.
- valdosta — a city in S Georgia.
- valentia — a port in E Spain, capital of Valencia province, on the Mediterranean: the third largest city in Spain; capital of the Moorish kingdom of Valencia (1021–1238); university (1501). Pop: 780 653 (2003 est)
- valerate — a salt of valeric acid
- valeting — a male servant who attends to the personal needs of his male employer, as by taking care of clothing or the like; manservant.
- validate — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- validity — the state or quality of being valid: to question the validity of the argument.
- valletta — an island in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Africa. 95 sq. mi. (246 sq. km).
- valuated — to set a value on; appraise.
- valuator — to set a value on; appraise.
- valvelet — a small valve; valvule.
- vamplate — a metal plate mounted on a lance in front of the grip to protect the hand.
- van vogt — A(lfred) E(lton) 1912–2000, U.S. science-fiction writer, born in Canada.
- van wert — a city in NW Ohio.
- vanadate — a salt or ester of a vanadic acid.
- vanitied — with vanity units or mirrors
- vanitory — a combined dressing table and lavatory basin.
- vanzetti — Bartolomeo [bahr-taw-law-me-aw] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ ɔ/ (Show IPA), 1888–1927, Italian anarchist, in U.S. after 1908.