7-letter words containing a, v, i
- avodire — a yellow hardwood from an African tree
- avoided — to keep away from; keep clear of; shun: to avoid a person; to avoid taxes; to avoid danger.
- avoider — to keep away from; keep clear of; shun: to avoid a person; to avoid taxes; to avoid danger.
- avowing — Present participle of avow.
- basic v — The version of the Basic programming language which comes on ROM in Acorn's RISC computers: the Archimedes range and the RiscPC. It features REPEAT and WHILE loops, multi-line IF statements, procedures and functions, local variables, error handling, system calls and a built-in assembler.
- batavia — an ancient district of the Netherlands, on an island at the mouth of the Rhine
- bavaria — a state of S Germany: a former duchy and kingdom; mainly wooded highland, with the Alps in the south. Capital: Munich. Pop: 12 155 000 (2000 est). Area: 70 531 sq km (27 232 sq miles)
- biovars — a group of microorganisms, usually bacteria, that have identical genetic but different biochemical or physiological characters.
- bivalve — any marine or freshwater mollusc of the class Pelecypoda (formerly Bivalvia or Lamellibranchia), having a laterally compressed body, a shell consisting of two hinged valves, and gills for respiration. The group includes clams, cockles, oysters, and mussels
- bivouac — A bivouac is a temporary camp made by soldiers or mountain climbers.
- bolivar — the standard monetary unit of Venezuela, equal to 100 céntimos
- bolivia — an inland republic in central S America: original Aymara Indian population conquered by the Incas in the 13th century; colonized by Spain from 1538; became a republic in 1825; consists of low plains in the east, with ranges of the Andes rising to over 6400 m (21 000 ft) and the Altiplano, a plateau averaging 3900 m (13 000 ft) in the west; contains some of the world's highest inhabited regions; important producer of tin and other minerals. Official languages: Spanish, Quechua, and Aymara. Religion: Roman Catholic. Currency: boliviano. Capital: La Paz (administrative); Sucre (judicial). Pop: 10 461 053 (2013 est). Area: 1 098 580 sq km (424 260 sq miles)
- braving — possessing or exhibiting courage or courageous endurance.
- caitive — a captive
- caliver — a light musket introduced in the early 16th century
- calving — to give birth to a calf: The cow is expected to calve tomorrow.
- calvino — Italo. 1923–85, Italian novelist and short-story writer. His works include Our Ancestors (1960) and Invisible Cities (1972)
- captive — A captive person or animal is being kept imprisoned or enclosed.
- carving — A carving is an object or a design that has been cut out of a material such as stone or wood.
- cave in — If something such as a roof or a ceiling caves in, it collapses inwards.
- cave-in — a collapse, as of anything hollow: the worst cave-in in the history of mining.
- caviare — the roe of sturgeon, especially the beluga, or other fish, usually served as an hors d'oeuvre or appetizer.
- caviled — Simple past tense and past participle of cavil.
- caviler — a person who cavils
- chauvin — a chauvinist
- chavian — of or relating to chavs
- chavish — a person who wears fashionable brands, flashy jewelry, etc., but is regarded as having bad or lower-class taste.
- chivari — shivaree.
- civitan — a member of Civitan International, a service club founded 1918.
- civitas — the body of citizens who constitute a state, especially a city-state, commonwealth, or the like.
- clavier — any keyboard instrument
- clavius — one of the largest of the craters on the moon, about 230 kilometres (145 miles) in diameter, whose walls have peaks up to 5700 metres (19 000 feet) above the floor. It lies in the SE quadrant
- copaiva — Alternative form of copaiba.
- corival — Alternative form of corrival.
- corvina — a marine food fish, Menticirrhus undulatus, found in Pacific waters off Mexico and California
- covilhã — Pero da (ˈpeːrʊ da). ?1460–?1526, Portuguese explorer, who established relations between Portugal and Ethiopia
- craiova — a city in SW Romania, on the Jiul River. Pop: 285 000 (2005 est)
- craving — an intense desire or longing
- datavis — A dataflow language for scientific visualisation.
- datival — (in certain inflected languages, as Latin, Greek, and German) noting a case having as a distinctive function indication of the indirect object of a verb or the object of certain prepositions.
- datives — Plural form of dative.
- david i — 1084–1153, king of Scotland (1124–53) who supported his niece Matilda's claim to the English throne and unsuccessfully invaded England on her behalf
- davidia — any tree of the genus Davidia, esp Davidia involucrata, which is native to China and has white, dovelike flowers
- davidic — of or relating to the Biblical David or his descendants.
- deviant — Deviant behaviour or thinking is different from what people normally consider to be acceptable.
- deviate — To deviate from something means to start doing something different or not planned, especially in a way that causes problems for others.
- devisal — the act of inventing, contriving, or devising; contrivance
- diluvia — a coarse surficial deposit formerly attributed to a general deluge but now regarded as glacial drift.
- disavow — to disclaim knowledge of, connection with, or responsibility for; disown; repudiate: He disavowed the remark that had been attributed to him.
- dissave — to withdraw or spend savings, especially to meet increased living expenses.