8-letter words containing e, v, a
- alveated — resembling the channels of a beehive
- alveolae — a small cavity, cell, or pit on the surface of an organ.
- alveolar — of, relating to, or resembling an alveolus
- alveolus — any small pit, cavity, or saclike dilation, such as a honeycomb cell
- ambivert — a person who is intermediate between an extrovert and an introvert
- andreyev — ˌLeonid Nikolaˈyevich (ˌlɛɔˈnidˌ nikɔlɑˈjeɪvɪtʃ ) ; leˌ^ōnēdˈ nēˌk^ōläyāˈvich) 1871-1919; Russ. playwright, novelist, & short-story writer
- antenave — a porch or narthex before the nave of a church.
- antevert — to displace (an organ or part) by tilting it forward
- approved — An approved method or course of action is officially accepted as appropriate in a particular situation.
- approver — a person who approves
- approves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of approve.
- archived — Simple past tense and past participle of archive.
- archiver — One who, or that which, archives.
- archives — Usually, archives. documents or records relating to the activities, business dealings, etc., of a person, family, corporation, association, community, or nation.
- arteveld — Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˈyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1290?–1345, Flemish statesman.
- arvicole — a mouse or water vole that belongs to the genus Arvicola
- as level — a public examination taken for the General Certificate of Education, with a smaller course content than an A level: since 2000 taken either as the first part of a full A level or as a qualification in its own right
- auditive — a person who learns primarily by listening
- autosave — a function on a computer that automatically saves data at regular intervals
- auvergne — a region of S central France: largely mountainous, rising over 1800 m (6000 ft)
- availeth — Archaic third-person singular form of avail.
- avellane — of hazelnuts
- avengers — to take vengeance or exact satisfaction for: to avenge a grave insult.
- avenging — taking vengeance on someone or something for a wrong done
- aventail — the movable front flap on a helmet
- aventine — one of the seven hills on which Rome was built
- aventure — (obsolete) Accident; chance; adventure.
- avenzoar — 1091?–1162, Arab physician and writer in Spain: founder of Almohad dynasty.
- averaged — Simple past tense and past participle of average.
- averager — person who calculates average claims
- averages — Achieve or amount to as an average rate or amount over a period of time.
- averment — the act of averring.
- avernus' — a crater lake in S Italy, near Naples and the Tyrrhenian Sea, thought by ancients to be the entrance to the underworld.
- averring — to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner.
- averroes — Arabic name ibn-Rushd. 1126–88, Arab philosopher and physician in Spain, noted particularly for his attempts to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy with Islamic religion, which profoundly influenced Christian scholasticism
- aversely — having a strong feeling of opposition, antipathy, repugnance, etc.; opposed: He is not averse to having a drink now and then.
- aversion — If you have an aversion to someone or something, you dislike them very much.
- aversity — The state or condition of being averse.
- aversive — tending to dissuade or repel
- averstar — (company) The US software engineering company that developed Hal, under their former name, "Intermetrics". Other products include CS-4, Red, Mwave Developers Toolkit (multimedia for IBM PC), cross-compilers for C and C++; Ada '83, Ada 95, and SAMeDL. AverStar also supply client/server systems; custom software applications and turnkey systems; independent verification and validation; CAE integration technology; languages and compilers: Ada, C, C++, HDLs (MHDL), Modula, SPL/1. Address: Intermetrics, Inc., 733 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Telephone: +1 (617) 661 1840. Fax: +1 (617) 868 2843. Address: 7918 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, Va 22102, USA. Telephone: +1 (703) 827-2606. Fax: +1 (703) 827-5560. Also Houston, TX, Huntington Beach, CA, Warminster, PA, and others.
- averting — Present participle of avert.
- avianize — to modify microorganisms by repeated culturing in chicken embryos
- aviaries — Plural form of aviary.
- avicenna — Arabic name ibn-Sina. 980–1037, Arab philosopher and physician whose philosophical writings, which combined Aristotelianism with neo-Platonist ideas, greatly influenced scholasticism, and whose medical work Qanun was the greatest single influence on medieval medicine
- avidness — a desire to advance; eagerness
- aviemore — a winter sports resort in Scotland, in Moray between the Monadhliath and Cairngorm Mountains. Pop: 2397 (2001)
- avoiders — Plural form of avoider.
- avoucher — a person who avouches
- avouches — to make frank acknowledgment or affirmation of; declare or assert with positiveness.
- avowable — Capable of being avowed or openly acknowledged with confidence.