8-letter words containing i, n, v
- givenchy — Hubert de [y-ber duh] /üˈbɛr də/ (Show IPA), born 1927, French fashion designer.
- glenview — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- gonaives — Gulf of, an inlet of the Caribbean Sea, between the two peninsulas of W Haiti.
- graviton — the theoretical quantum of gravitation, usually assumed to be an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle and that has zero rest mass and charge and a spin of two.
- 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.
- grooving — a long, narrow cut or indentation in a surface, as the cut in a board to receive the tongue of another board (tongue-and-groove joint) a furrow, or a natural indentation on an organism.
- havering — a borough of Greater London, England.
- haviland — John, 1792–1852, English architect, in the U.S.
- heavings — Plural form of heaving.
- hempvine — Any plant of the genus Mikania.
- henry iv — 1050–1106, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and king of Germany 1056–1106.
- henry vi — 1165–97, king of Germany 1190–97; king of Sicily 1194–97; emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1191–97 (son of Frederick I).
- hindutva — (in India) a political movement advocating Hindu nationalism and the establishment of a Hindu state
- hivemind — the property of apparent sentience in a colony of social insects acting as a single organism, each insect performing a specific role for the good of the group.
- hovering — Present participle of hover.
- 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 favor — in agreement
- in vacuo — in a vacuum.
- in vitro — a specialized technique by which an ovum, especially a human one, is fertilized by sperm outside the body, with the resulting embryo later implanted in the uterus for gestation.
- in vogue — fashionable
- in voice — in a condition to sing or speak well
- inactive — not active: an inactive volcano.
- incisive — penetrating; cutting; biting; trenchant: an incisive tone of voice.
- incivism — neglect of a citizen's duties; poor citizenship
- incurved — Turned inwards.
- indeavor — Obsolete form of endeavor.
- indevour — Obsolete spelling of endeavour.
- indevout — not devout; lacking religious devotion; irreligious
- induviae — withered leaves which decay on the tree instead of falling off; also, parts of petals (corolla) or sepals (calyx) with the same behaviour
- induvial — (of a leaf, petal, or sepal) acting as induviae, decaying on the plant instead of falling off
- inessive — noting a case, as in Finnish, whose distinctive function is to indicate place in or within which.
- infusive — capable of infusing; inspiring.
- ingroove — to cut a groove into
- innative — native, or existing in a person or animal from birth
- innerved — Simple past tense and past participle of innerve.
- innovada — An object-oriented extension to Ada, said to be Lisp-like. Implemented as an Ada preprocessor.
- innovate — to introduce something new; make changes in anything established.
- interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
- invaders — Plural form of invader.
- invading — Present participle of invade.
- invalids — Plural form of invalid.
- invasion — an act or instance of invading or entering as an enemy, especially by an army.
- invasive — characterized by or involving invasion; offensive: invasive war.
- invected — noting an edge of a charge, as an ordinary, consisting of a series of small convex curves.
- 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.
- inveiled — Simple past tense and past participle of inveil.