8-letter words containing g, e, n, v
- governor — the executive head of a state in the U.S.
- gravamen — the part of an accusation that weighs most heavily against the accused; the substantial part of a charge or complaint.
- greaving — Present participle of greave.
- grievand — One who is the object of a formal grievance.
- grievant — a person who submits a complaint for arbitration.
- grieving — to feel grief or great sorrow: She has grieved over his death for nearly three years.
- hangover — the disagreeable physical aftereffects of drunkenness, such as a headache or stomach disorder, usually felt several hours after cessation of drinking.
- havering — a borough of Greater London, England.
- heavings — Plural form of heaving.
- hovering — Present participle of hover.
- hungover — hung (def 3).
- ignatiev — Count Nikolai Pavlovich. 1832–1908, Russian diplomat and politician. As ambassador to Turkey (1864–77), he negotiated the Treaty of San Stefano (1878) ending the Russo-Turkish War
- in vogue — fashionable
- ingroove — to cut a groove into
- inveighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inveigh.
- inveigle — to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements (usually followed by into): to inveigle a person into playing bridge.
- kvelling — to be extraordinarily pleased; especially, to be bursting with pride, as over one's family.
- leavings — something that is left; residue.
- leveeing — Present participle of levee.
- leveling — having no part higher than another; having a flat or even surface.
- levering — Mechanics. a rigid bar that pivots about one point and that is used to move an object at a second point by a force applied at a third. Compare machine (def 4b).
- livelong — (of time) whole or entire, especially when tediously long, slow in passing, etc.: We picked apples the livelong day.
- livening — Present participle of liven.
- livering — Anatomy. a large, reddish-brown, glandular organ located in the upper right side of the abdominal cavity, divided by fissures into five lobes and functioning in the secretion of bile and various metabolic processes.
- longeval — Long-lived; longevous.
- longview — a city in NE Texas.
- longwave — (of radio waves) Having a wavelength of greater than 1000 meters.
- lovesong — Alternative spelling of love song.
- mangrove — any tropical tree or shrub of the genus Rhizophora, the species of which are mostly low trees growing in marshes or tidal shores, noted for their interlacing above-ground adventitious roots.
- mcgovern — George (Stanley) 1922–2012, U.S. politician: Democratic presidential candidate 1972, senator 1963–81.
- misgiven — (of one's mind, heart, etc.) to give doubt or apprehension to.
- navigate — to move on, over, or through (water, air, or land) in a ship or aircraft: to navigate a river.
- negative — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
- overgang — to dominate
- overhang — to hang or be suspended over: A great chandelier overhung the ballroom.
- overhung — simple past tense and past participle of overhang.
- overking — a supreme king
- overlong — too or excessively long
- overwing — to fly above
- raveling — a tangle or complication.
- ravening — rapacious; voracious.
- re-given — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- reliving — to experience again, as an emotion.
- reveling — to take great pleasure or delight (usually followed by in): to revel in luxury.
- revenged — to exact punishment or expiation for a wrong on behalf of, especially in a resentful or vindictive spirit: He revenged his murdered brother.
- revering — to regard with respect tinged with awe; venerate: The child revered her mother.
- reviling — to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively.
- ringdove — a small Old World dove, Streptopelia risoria, having a black half ring around the nape of the neck.
- riveting — a metal pin for passing through holes in two or more plates or pieces to hold them together, usually made with a head at one end, the other end being hammered into a head after insertion.
- scavenge — to take or gather (something usable) from discarded material.