8-letter words containing o, v, t
- downvote — such an unfavorable vote.
- e-voting — electronic voting.
- elevator — A platform or compartment housed in a shaft for raising and lowering people or things to different floors or levels.
- estovers — a right allowed by law to tenants of land to cut timber, esp for fuel and repairs
- evanston — a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan north of Chicago: Northwestern University (1851). Pop: 74 360 (2003 est)
- evection — (astronomy) Modification of the lunar orbit due to the gravitational effects of the Sun.
- even out — become flatter or more level
- eviction — The action of expelling someone, especially a tenant, from a property; expulsion.
- evocated — Simple past tense and past participle of evocate.
- evocator — Someone who evokes.
- evolutes — Plural form of evolute.
- evolvent — an involute curve
- 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.
- foveated — having foveae; pitted.
- gavotted — Simple past tense and past participle of gavotte.
- gavottes — Plural form of gavotte.
- get over — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- 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.
- 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.
- have got — have, possess
- have out — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- have-not — Usually, have-nots. an individual or group that is without wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have).
- heave to — to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist: to heave a heavy ax.
- horovitz — Israel, born 1939, U.S. playwright.
- hovawart — a medium-sized strongly-built dog of a breed with a long thick coat, a thick tuft of hair round the neck, and a long bushy tail
- 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.
- indevout — not devout; lacking religious devotion; irreligious
- innovate — to introduce something new; make changes in anything established.
- inventor — a person who invents, especially one who devises some new process, appliance, machine, or article; one who makes inventions.
- invertor — any muscle that turns a limb or part inward.
- investor — to put (money) to use, by purchase or expenditure, in something offering potential profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
- invitors — to request the presence or participation of in a kindly, courteous, or complimentary way, especially to request to come or go to some place, gathering, entertainment, etc., or to do something: to invite friends to dinner.
- invocate — invoke.
- involute — intricate; complex.
- j'ouvert — the eve of Mardi gras; the Monday morning on which the festivities begin
- jehovist — Yahwist.
- kilovolt — a unit of electromotive force, equal to 1000 volts. Abbreviation: kV, kv.
- kuntsevo — a former city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, incorporated into Moscow 1962.
- lavation — the process of washing.
- lavatory — a room fitted with equipment for washing the hands and face and usually with flush toilet facilities.
- leftover — Usually, leftovers. food remaining uneaten at the end of a meal, especially when saved for later use.
- levation — The act of raising; elevation or upward motion, such as that produced by the action of a levator muscle.
- levators — Plural form of levator.
- levertov — Denise, 1923–97, U.S. poet, born in England.
- litvinov — Maksim Maksimovich [muh-ksyeem muh-ksyee-muh-vyich] /mʌˈksyim mʌˈksyi mə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1951, Russian Communist leader and diplomat.
- live out — residing away from the place of one's employment: a live-out cook.
- live-out — residing away from the place of one's employment: a live-out cook.