8-letter words containing i, t, v
- drive at — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- durative — noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing incomplete or continued action. Beat and walk are durative in contrast to strike and step.
- duvetine — a napped fabric, in a twilled or plain weave, of cotton, wool, silk, or rayon.
- e-voting — electronic voting.
- eductive — educing; serving to educe.
- ejective — Denoting a type of consonant in some languages, e.g., Hausa, produced by sudden release of pressure from the glottis.
- elective — Related to or working by means of election.
- eluviate — to undergo eluviation
- enactive — Having power to enact or establish as a law.
- equative — (grammar) Of, pertaining to, or being an equative.
- erective — Making erect or upright; raising.
- ergative — Relating to or denoting a case of nouns (in some languages, e.g., Basque and Eskimo) that identifies the subject of a transitive verb and is different from the case that identifies the subject of an intransitive verb.
- eruptive — Of, relating to, or formed by volcanic activity.
- estivate — (of an animal, particularly an insect, fish, or amphibian) spend a hot or dry period in a prolonged state of torpor or dormancy.
- evection — (astronomy) Modification of the lunar orbit due to the gravitational effects of the Sun.
- eventide — The end of the day; evening.
- eventing — An equestrian sport in which competitors must take part in each of several contests, usually cross-country, dressage, and show jumping.
- everting — Present participle of evert.
- evicting — Present participle of evict.
- eviction — The action of expelling someone, especially a tenant, from a property; expulsion.
- evitable — Possible to avoid; avertible.
- evitably — In an evitable way; avoidably.
- exertive — Having power or a tendency to exert; using exertion.
- exuviate — (ambitransitive, rare) To shed or cast off a covering, especially a skin; to slough; to molt (moult).
- fauvists — Plural form of fauvist.
- favorite — a person or thing regarded with special favor or preference: That song is an old favorite of mine.
- favosite — any of numerous corals of the extinct genus Favosites, most common during the Silurian and Devonian periods, having polygonal cells with rows of pores in the walls.
- 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.
- frictive — Of, relating to, or caused by friction.
- fructive — fruitful
- fruitive — able to enjoy or to produce enjoyment.
- fugitive — a person who is fleeing, from prosecution, intolerable circumstances, etc.; a runaway: a fugitive from justice; a fugitive from a dictatorial regime.
- galivant — Alt form gallivant.
- gallivat — (nautical) A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, used on the Malabar coast.
- genetive — Alternative spelling of genitive.
- genitive — (in certain inflected languages) noting a case of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives, used primarily to express possession, measure, or origin: as John's hat, week's vacation, duty's call.
- gigavolt — One thousand million ( 109 ) volts. Symbol: GV.
- give out — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- given to — past participle of give.
- gravitas — seriousness or sobriety, as of conduct or speech.
- gravitic — Of or pertaining to gravity. (Archaic/rare, gravitational is more common, still seen though in compounds like magnetogravitic.).
- 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.
- grievant — a person who submits a complaint for arbitration.
- hatikvah — the national anthem of Israel.
- heaviest — of great weight; hard to lift or carry: a heavy load.
- helvetia — an Alpine region in Roman times, corresponding to the W and N parts of Switzerland.
- helvetic — a Swiss Protestant; Zwinglian.
- helvetii — a Celtic tribe from SW Germany who settled in Helvetia from about 200 bc
- hindutva — (in India) a political movement advocating Hindu nationalism and the establishment of a Hindu state