8-letter words containing a, v, i, o
- go viral — If a video, image, or story goes viral, it spreads quickly and widely on the Internet through social media and e-mail.
- godavari — a river flowing SE from W India to the Bay of Bengal. 900 miles (1450 km) long.
- gonaives — Gulf of, an inlet of the Caribbean Sea, between the two peninsulas of W Haiti.
- graviton — the theoretical quantum of gravitation, usually assumed to be an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle and that has zero rest mass and charge and a spin of two.
- iarovize — to vernalize.
- in favor — in agreement
- in vacuo — in a vacuum.
- indeavor — Obsolete form of endeavor.
- innovada — An object-oriented extension to Ada, said to be Lisp-like. Implemented as an Ada preprocessor.
- innovate — to introduce something new; make changes in anything established.
- invasion — an act or instance of invading or entering as an enemy, especially by an army.
- invocate — invoke.
- jarovize — to vernalize.
- jovially — endowed with or characterized by a hearty, joyous humor or a spirit of good-fellowship: a wonderfully jovial host.
- lavation — the process of washing.
- levation — The act of raising; elevation or upward motion, such as that produced by the action of a levator muscle.
- live oak — an evergreen oak, Quercus virginiana, of the southern U.S., having a short, broad trunk and shiny, oblong leaves: the state tree of Georgia.
- livonian — a former Russian province on the Baltic: now part of Latvia and Estonia.
- locative — (in certain inflected languages) noting a case whose distinctive function is to indicate place in or at which, as Latin domī “at home.”.
- masvingo — a city in S central Zimbabwe.
- moldavia — a region in NE Romania: formerly a principality that united with Wallachia to form Romania. Capital: Jassy.
- monrovia — a republic in W Africa: founded by freed American slaves 1822. About 43,000 sq. mi. (111,000 sq. km). Capital: Monrovia.
- moravian — pertaining to Moravia or its inhabitants.
- mordovia — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga basin. Capital: Saransk. Pop: 888 700 (2002). Area: 26 200 sq km (10 110 sq miles)
- moshavim — Plural form of moshav.
- motivate — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- navarino — a seaport in the SW Peloponnesus, in SW Greece: Turkish and Egyptian fleets defeated near here in a naval battle 1827.
- naviform — Shaped like a boat.
- nazimova — Alla [ah-luh] /ˈɑ lə/ (Show IPA), 1879–1945, Russian actress in the U.S.
- nivation — erosion resulting from the action of frost beneath a snowbank.
- nonavian — Not avian.
- nonrival — (of goods or resources) capable of being enjoyed or consumed by many consumers simultaneously and therefore without rivalry, eg cable television
- nonvalid — not valid; invalid
- nonviral — not caused by a virus, not viral in origin
- nonvital — not vital
- novalike — Resembling a nova or some aspect of one.
- novating — Present participle of novate.
- novation — Law. the substitution of a new obligation for an old one, usually by the substitution of a new debtor or of a new creditor.
- novi sad — an autonomous province within Serbia. 8303 sq. mi. (21,506 sq. km). Capital: Novi Sad.
- novocain — Dated spelling of novocaine.
- oakville — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, SW of Toronto, on Lake Ontario.
- obviable — having the ability to be obviated
- obviated — to anticipate and prevent or eliminate (difficulties, disadvantages, etc.) by effective measures; render unnecessary: to obviate the risk of serious injury.
- obviates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obviate.
- obviator — a person who obviates
- octavian — (Octavian) died a.d. 964, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 955–964.
- octavius — a male given name.
- olivares — Conde-Ducque de, title of Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimental. 1587–1645, Spanish statesman: court favourite and prime minister (1621–43) of Philip IV. His attempts to establish Hapsburg domination of Europe ended in failure
- omnivora — a group of omnivorous mammals
- optative — designating or pertaining to a verb mood, as in Greek, that has among its functions the expression of a wish, as Greek íoimen “may we go, we wish we might go.”.