8-letter words containing e, v, a
- festival — a day or time of religious or other celebration, marked by feasting, ceremonies, or other observances: the festival of Christmas; a Roman festival.
- fixative — serving to fix; making fixed or permanent.
- flavored — (of food or drink) having a particular type of taste.
- flavorer — One who or that which flavors.
- foveated — having foveae; pitted.
- foveolae — a small fovea; a very small pit or depression.
- foveolar — a small fovea; a very small pit or depression.
- gas oven — a domestic oven heated by gas
- gavarnie — a waterfall in SW France, in the Pyrenees. 1384 feet (422 meters) high.
- gavelled — Simple past tense and past participle of gavel.
- gavelman — a gavelkind tenant
- gavelock — a spear or javelin
- gavotted — Simple past tense and past participle of gavotte.
- gavottes — Plural form of gavotte.
- gingivae — gum2 (def 1).
- give ear — to give attention, esp. favorable attention; listen; heed
- give way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- giveable — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- giveaway — an act or instance of giving something away.
- giveback — (in union negotiations) a reduction in employee wages or benefits conceded by a union in exchange for other benefits or in recognition of depressed economic conditions: Givebacks have not slowed the number of shutdowns.
- gladvert — an advertisement that can be tailored to match the emotional state of the viewer
- gloveman — fielder.
- gonaives — Gulf of, an inlet of the Caribbean Sea, between the two peninsulas of W Haiti.
- gravamen — the part of an accusation that weighs most heavily against the accused; the substantial part of a charge or complaint.
- graveled — Simple past tense and past participle of gravel.
- gravelly — of, like, or abounding in gravel.
- gravidae — a woman's status regarding pregnancy; usually followed by a roman numeral designating the number of times the woman has been pregnant.
- greaving — Present participle of greave.
- grievand — One who is the object of a formal grievance.
- grievant — a person who submits a complaint for arbitration.
- guaviare — a river in central and E Colombia, flowing E to the Orinoco River. 650 (1046 km) long.
- handover — the act of relinquishing property, authority, etc.: a handover of occupied territory.
- handwave — [possibly from gestures characteristic of stage magicians] To gloss over a complex point; to distract a listener; to support a (possibly actually valid) point with blatantly faulty logic. If someone starts a sentence with "Clearly..." or "Obviously..." or "It is self-evident that...", it is a good bet he is about to handwave (alternatively, use of these constructions in a sarcastic tone before a paraphrase of someone else's argument suggests that it is a handwave). The theory behind this term is that if you wave your hands at the right moment, the listener may be sufficiently distracted to not notice that what you have said is wrong. Failing that, if a listener does object, you might try to dismiss the objection with a wave of your hand. The use of this word is often accompanied by gestures: both hands up, palms forward, swinging the hands in a vertical plane pivoting at the elbows and/or shoulders (depending on the magnitude of the handwave); alternatively, holding the forearms in one position while rotating the hands at the wrist to make them flutter. In context, the gestures alone can suffice as a remark; if a speaker makes an outrageously unsupported assumption, you might simply wave your hands in this way, as an accusation, far more eloquent than words could express, that his logic is faulty.
- hangover — the disagreeable physical aftereffects of drunkenness, such as a headache or stomach disorder, usually felt several hours after cessation of drinking.
- hannover — a member of the royal family that ruled Great Britain under that name from 1714 to 1901.
- harvests — Plural form of harvest.
- have got — have, possess
- have out — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- have sex — have intercourse
- have-not — Usually, have-nots. an individual or group that is without wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have).
- havelock — a town in SE North Carolina.
- havering — a borough of Greater London, England.
- havocker — a person who causes havoc
- hayfever — Alternative spelling of hay fever.
- heatwave — period of hot weather
- heave ho — an act or effort of heaving.
- heave to — to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist: to heave a heavy ax.
- heave-ho — an act of rejection, dismissal, or forcible ejection: The bartender gave the noisy drunk the old heave-ho.
- heavenly — of or in the heavens: the heavenly bodies.
- heaviest — of great weight; hard to lift or carry: a heavy load.