8-letter words containing e, v, a
- avowance — (obsolete) Act of avowing; avowal.
- avowedly — acknowledged; declared: an avowed enemy.
- avulsive — Of or pertaining to an avulsion.
- ayurveda — an ancient medical treatise on the art of healing and prolonging life, sometimes regarded as a fifth Veda
- backveld — (in South Africa) a remote, sparsely populated, and often primitive area
- banville — Théodore de (teɔdɔr də). 1823–91, French poet, who anticipated the Parnassian school in his perfection of form and command of rhythm
- beauvais — a market town in N France, 64 km (40 miles) northwest of Paris. Pop: 55 392 (1999)
- beauvoir — Siˈmone de (siˈmɔn də ) ; sēm^ōnˈ də) 1908-86; Fr. existentialist writer
- beavered — Covered with, or wearing, a beaver or hat.
- behavior — People's or animals' behavior is the way that they behave. You can refer to a typical and repeated way of behaving as a behavior.
- berdyaev — Nikoˈlai (Aleksandrovich) (nikɔˈlaɪ ) ; nēk^ōlīˈ) 1874-1948; Russ. religious philosopher, in France after 1922
- bereaved — A bereaved person is one who has a relative or close friend who has recently died.
- bereaver — a person who bereaves
- beslaver — to fawn, or to slobber, over
- bevatron — a proton synchrotron at the University of California
- beverage — Beverages are drinks.
- bivalent — (of homologous chromosomes) associated together in pairs
- bloviate — to talk at length, esp in an insubstantial but inflated manner
- bob veal — the flesh of an unborn or newborn calf, used for food.
- bow wave — wave that forms at the front of a ship
- breviary — a book of psalms, hymns, prayers, etc, to be recited daily by clerics in major orders and certain members of religious orders as part of the divine office
- breviate — a short account; a summary
- bud vase — a relatively tall, slender vase, usually footed, for holding a single, stemmed flower, usually a rosebud
- burgrave — the military governor of a German town or castle, esp in the 12th and 13th centuries
- cab-over — a truck tractor or other vehicle in which the cab is located over the engine.
- 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
- cadavers — Plural form of cadaver.
- canvased — Simple past tense and past participle of canvas.
- canvaser — Alt form canvasser.
- canvases — a closely woven, heavy cloth of cotton, hemp, or linen, used for tents, sails, etc.
- captived — Simple past tense and past participle of captive.
- captives — Plural form of captive; persons held prisoner.
- caravels — Plural form of caravel.
- caritive — (in certain inflected languages, especially of the Caucasian group) abessive.
- carve up — If you say that someone carves something up, you disapprove of the way they have divided it into small parts.
- carveout — A small company created from a larger one.
- casevacs — Plural form of casevac.
- cavalero — a gentleman or cavalier
- cavalier — If you describe a person or their behaviour as cavalier, you are criticizing them because you think that they do not consider other people's feelings or take account of the seriousness of a situation.
- 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.
- cave man — a prehistoric human being of the Stone Age who lived in caves
- caveated — Simple past tense and past participle of caveat.
- caveator — a person who enters a caveat
- cavefish — any of various small freshwater cyprinodont fishes of the genera Amblyopsis, Chologaster, etc, living in subterranean and other waters in S North America
- cavelike — similar to or resembling a cave
- caverned — (poetic) Pitted or hollowed out with caverns.
- cavesson — a kind of hard noseband, used (esp formerly) in breaking a horse in
- cavilled — Simple past tense and past participle of cavil.
- caviller — to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily (usually followed by at or about): He finds something to cavil at in everything I say.
- cavitate — to form cavities or bubbles