7-letter words containing a, v, i
- dravida — any of the Dravidian languages
- dravite — a brown variety of magnesium tourmaline.
- drivage — a horizontal or inclined heading or roadway in the process of construction.
- elative — (grammar) In Semitic languages, the \u201cadjective of superiority.\u201d In some languages such as Arabic, the concepts of comparative and superlative degree of an adjective are merged into a single form, the 'elative'. How this form is understood or translated depends upon context and definiteness. In the absence of comparison, the elative conveys the notion of \u201cgreatest\u201d, \u201csupreme.\u201d.
- eluvial — Of or pertaining to eluvium.
- estival — Belonging to or appearing in summer.
- evading — Present participle of evade.
- evanish — (archaic, intransitive) To vanish.
- evasion — The action of evading something.
- evasive — Tending to avoid commitment or self-revelation, esp. by responding only indirectly.
- evirate — to emasculate; to castrate
- exuviae — An animal's cast or sloughed skin, especially that of an insect larva.
- exuvial — Related to something sloughed off or stripped away.
- factive — (of a verb, adjective, or noun phrase) presupposing the truth of an embedded sentence that serves as complement, as realize in I didn't realize that he had left, which presupposes that it is true that he had left.
- fauvism — (sometimes lowercase) any of a group of French artists of the early 20th century whose works are characterized chiefly by the use of vivid colors in immediate juxtaposition and contours usually in marked contrast to the color of the area defined.
- fauvist — (sometimes lowercase) any of a group of French artists of the early 20th century whose works are characterized chiefly by the use of vivid colors in immediate juxtaposition and contours usually in marked contrast to the color of the area defined.
- faveoli — a small pit or cavity resembling a cell of a honeycomb; alveola.
- favicon — An icon associated with a URL that is variously displayed, as in a browser’s address bar or next to the site name in a bookmark list.
- favrile — type of iridescent glass
- flavine — Chemistry. acriflavine hydrochloride.
- fluvial — of or relating to a river: a meandering fluvial contour.
- galvani — Luigi [loo-ee-jee] /luˈi dʒi/ (Show IPA), 1737–98, Italian physiologist whose experiments led to the discovery that electricity can result from chemical action.
- gavials — Plural form of gavial.
- gervais — (sometimes initial capital letter) an unsalted French cream cheese made from whole milk and cream.
- giaever — Ivar [ee-vahr] /ˈi vɑr/ (Show IPA), born 1929, U.S. physicist, born in Norway: Nobel Prize 1973.
- gingiva — gum2 (def 1).
- givable — Capable of being given.
- glaives — Plural form of glaive.
- gravida — a woman's status regarding pregnancy; usually followed by a roman numeral designating the number of times the woman has been pregnant.
- gravies — Plural form of gravy.
- graving — to clean and apply a protective composition of tar to (the bottom of a ship).
- gravity — the force of attraction by which terrestrial bodies tend to fall toward the center of the earth.
- halving — Present participle of halve.
- havarti — a semisoft Danish cheese made of cow's milk.
- have in — to ask (a person) to give a service
- have it — (in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
- haveing — (archaic) present participle of have.
- haverim — friend; comrade; companion.
- havilah — a female given name.
- haviour — (obsolete) Demeanour, behaviour, comportment.
- havirov — an industrial town in E Czech Republic.
- heavier — Comparative form of heavy.
- heavies — Plural form of heavy.
- heavily — with a great weight or burden: a heavily loaded wagon.
- heaving — to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist: to heave a heavy ax.
- himavat — the personification of the Himalayas and father of Devi
- hiva oa — a volcanic island in the South Pacific, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. 77 sq. mi. (200 sq. km).
- hryvnia — The currency of Ukraine, symbol ₴, divided into 100 kopiykas.
- illuvia — the material accumulated through illuviation.
- impaved — Simple past tense and past participle of impave.