8-letter words containing r, v, a
- dwarvish — Synonym of dwarfish.
- eavedrop — A drop falling from the eaves of a building; an eavesdrop.
- edward v — 1470–83, king of England 1483 (son of Edward IV).
- elevator — A platform or compartment housed in a shaft for raising and lowering people or things to different floors or levels.
- endeavor — Try hard to do or achieve something.
- enervate — Cause (someone) to feel drained of energy or vitality; weaken.
- engraved — Cut or carve (a text or design) on the surface of a hard object.
- engraver — A person who engraves.
- engraves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of engrave.
- enravish — to enchant
- enslaver — One that enslaves.
- 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.
- everlast — (intransitive) To last always or forever; continue; endure; remain.
- everyday — Happening or used every day; daily.
- everyman — In fiction, drama, or allegory, the archetypical ordinary individual, frequently the protagonist in a parable of some sort.
- everyway — (dated) In every way, however possible.
- evocator — Someone who evokes.
- failover — A method of protecting computer systems from failure, in which standby equipment automatically takes over when the main system fails.
- fairview — a town in NE New Jersey.
- 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.
- favorous — Favourable, favorable.
- favoured — Treated or regarded with partiality.
- favourer — Alternative form of favorer.
- flavored — (of food or drink) having a particular type of taste.
- flavorer — One who or that which flavors.
- flavours — Plural form of flavour.
- flavoury — Possessing flavour.
- foveolar — a small fovea; a very small pit or depression.
- fravashi — the soul of a dead ancestor.
- gavarnie — a waterfall in SW France, in the Pyrenees. 1384 feet (422 meters) high.
- gavaskar — Sunil Manohar (ˈsʊnɪl ˈmænəʊhɑː). born 1949, Indian cricketer: played in 125 test matches (1971–87), 47 as captain; first batsman to score more than 10,000 test runs
- give ear — to give attention, esp. favorable attention; listen; heed
- gladvert — an advertisement that can be tailored to match the emotional state of the viewer
- go viral — If a video, image, or story goes viral, it spreads quickly and widely on the Internet through social media and e-mail.
- godavari — a river flowing SE from W India to the Bay of Bengal. 900 miles (1450 km) long.
- gorlovka — a city in SE Ukraine, N of Donetsk.
- gravamen — the part of an accusation that weighs most heavily against the accused; the substantial part of a charge or complaint.
- graveled — Simple past tense and past participle of gravel.
- gravelly — of, like, or abounding in gravel.
- gravidae — a woman's status regarding pregnancy; usually followed by a roman numeral designating the number of times the woman has been pregnant.
- gravidas — Plural form of gravida.
- 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.
- greaving — Present participle of greave.
- grievand — One who is the object of a formal grievance.
- grievant — a person who submits a complaint for arbitration.
- guaviare — a river in central and E Colombia, flowing E to the Orinoco River. 650 (1046 km) long.
- handover — the act of relinquishing property, authority, etc.: a handover of occupied territory.