8-letter words containing r, v, a
- averment — the act of averring.
- avernus' — a crater lake in S Italy, near Naples and the Tyrrhenian Sea, thought by ancients to be the entrance to the underworld.
- averring — to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner.
- averroes — Arabic name ibn-Rushd. 1126–88, Arab philosopher and physician in Spain, noted particularly for his attempts to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy with Islamic religion, which profoundly influenced Christian scholasticism
- aversely — having a strong feeling of opposition, antipathy, repugnance, etc.; opposed: He is not averse to having a drink now and then.
- aversion — If you have an aversion to someone or something, you dislike them very much.
- aversity — The state or condition of being averse.
- aversive — tending to dissuade or repel
- averstar — (company) The US software engineering company that developed Hal, under their former name, "Intermetrics". Other products include CS-4, Red, Mwave Developers Toolkit (multimedia for IBM PC), cross-compilers for C and C++; Ada '83, Ada 95, and SAMeDL. AverStar also supply client/server systems; custom software applications and turnkey systems; independent verification and validation; CAE integration technology; languages and compilers: Ada, C, C++, HDLs (MHDL), Modula, SPL/1. Address: Intermetrics, Inc., 733 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Telephone: +1 (617) 661 1840. Fax: +1 (617) 868 2843. Address: 7918 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, Va 22102, USA. Telephone: +1 (703) 827-2606. Fax: +1 (703) 827-5560. Also Houston, TX, Huntington Beach, CA, Warminster, PA, and others.
- averting — Present participle of avert.
- aviaries — Plural form of aviary.
- aviarist — a person who keeps an aviary
- aviators — Plural form of aviator.
- aviatrix — a female aviator
- avicular — of or relating to small birds
- aviemore — a winter sports resort in Scotland, in Moray between the Monadhliath and Cairngorm Mountains. Pop: 2397 (2001)
- avigator — aerial navigation.
- avogadro — Amedeo (ameˈdɛːo), Conte di Quaregna. 1776–1856, Italian physicist, noted for his work on gases
- avoiders — Plural form of avoider.
- avoucher — a person who avouches
- ayurveda — an ancient medical treatise on the art of healing and prolonging life, sometimes regarded as a fifth Veda
- bavarian — of or relating to Bavaria or its inhabitants
- bavarois — Bavarian cream.
- beauvoir — Siˈmone de (siˈmɔn də ) ; sēm^ōnˈ də) 1908-86; Fr. existentialist writer
- beavered — Covered with, or wearing, a beaver or hat.
- behavior — People's or animals' behavior is the way that they behave. You can refer to a typical and repeated way of behaving as a behavior.
- berdyaev — Nikoˈlai (Aleksandrovich) (nikɔˈlaɪ ) ; nēk^ōlīˈ) 1874-1948; Russ. religious philosopher, in France after 1922
- bereaved — A bereaved person is one who has a relative or close friend who has recently died.
- bereaver — a person who bereaves
- beslaver — to fawn, or to slobber, over
- bevatron — a proton synchrotron at the University of California
- beverage — Beverages are drinks.
- biovular — (of twins) from two separate eggs
- bovarism — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
- breviary — a book of psalms, hymns, prayers, etc, to be recited daily by clerics in major orders and certain members of religious orders as part of the divine office
- breviate — a short account; a summary
- burgrave — the military governor of a German town or castle, esp in the 12th and 13th centuries
- cab-over — a truck tractor or other vehicle in which the cab is located over the engine.
- cadavers — Plural form of cadaver.
- calvaria — the top part of the skull of vertebrates
- canvaser — Alt form canvasser.
- caravans — Plural form of caravan.
- caravels — Plural form of caravel.
- caritive — (in certain inflected languages, especially of the Caucasian group) abessive.
- carnival — A carnival is a public festival during which people play music and sometimes dance in the streets.
- carve up — If you say that someone carves something up, you disapprove of the way they have divided it into small parts.
- carveout — A small company created from a larger one.
- carvings — Plural form of carving.
- cavalero — a gentleman or cavalier
- cavalier — If you describe a person or their behaviour as cavalier, you are criticizing them because you think that they do not consider other people's feelings or take account of the seriousness of a situation.