8-letter words containing o, v, i
- equivoke — Alternative form of equivoque.
- evasions — Plural form of evasion.
- evection — (astronomy) Modification of the lunar orbit due to the gravitational effects of the Sun.
- eversion — An act of turning inside out.
- eviction — The action of expelling someone, especially a tenant, from a property; expulsion.
- evildoer — A person who commits profoundly immoral and malevolent deeds.
- evolving — Present participle of evolve.
- evulsion — (now rare) The action of forcibly pulling something out.
- failover — A method of protecting computer systems from failure, in which standby equipment automatically takes over when the main system fails.
- favonian — of or relating to the west wind.
- favonius — the ancient Roman personification of the west wind.
- favoring — something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
- 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.
- fervidor — Thermidor.
- fivefold — five times as great or as much.
- fivesome — A group of five persons or things.
- folivore — any chiefly leaf-eating animal or other organism, as the koala of Australia that subsists on eucalyptus.
- foregive — Lb transitive To give ahead of time; give in advance.
- forgiven — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- forgiver — A person who forgives.
- forgives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of forgive.
- gigavolt — One thousand million ( 109 ) volts. Symbol: GV.
- give off — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- give out — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- given to — past participle of give.
- go viral — If a video, image, or story goes viral, it spreads quickly and widely on the Internet through social media and e-mail.
- go voice — (communications) When two or more parties stop communicating digitally and resuming the conversation via voice communication over the telephone. Prototypically this is used (e.g., "Wanna go voice?") between two modem users to denote the action of picking up the phone while shutting off the modem, in order to use the same line for voice communication as had was being used for data transmission. Compare: Voice-Net.
- go-devil — a flexible, jointed apparatus forced through a pipeline to free it from obstructions.
- godavari — a river flowing SE from W India to the Bay of Bengal. 900 miles (1450 km) long.
- 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.
- grevious — Misspelling of grievous.
- grievous — causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
- 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.
- hive off — a shelter constructed for housing a colony of honeybees; beehive.
- horovitz — Israel, born 1939, U.S. playwright.
- hovering — Present participle of hover.
- iarovize — to vernalize.
- improved — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
- improver — a person or thing that improves.
- improves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of improve.
- 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
- indeavor — Obsolete form of endeavor.
- indevour — Obsolete spelling of endeavour.
- indevout — not devout; lacking religious devotion; irreligious