8-letter words containing t, e, l, v
- festival — a day or time of religious or other celebration, marked by feasting, ceremonies, or other observances: the festival of Christmas; a Roman festival.
- gladvert — an advertisement that can be tailored to match the emotional state of the viewer
- 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
- illative — of, relating to, or expressing illation; inferential: an illative word such as “therefore.”.
- interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
- involute — intricate; complex.
- lavatera — (botany) Any of the genus Lavatera of malvaceous flowering plants.
- lavement — A washing or bathing.
- laxative — a medicine or agent for relieving constipation.
- leftover — Usually, leftovers. food remaining uneaten at the end of a meal, especially when saved for later use.
- lenitive — softening, soothing, or mitigating, as medicines or applications.
- levanted — Simple past tense and past participle of levant.
- levanter — a strong easterly wind in the Mediterranean.
- 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.
- leverets — Plural form of leveret.
- levertov — Denise, 1923–97, U.S. poet, born in England.
- levigate — to rub, grind, or reduce to a fine powder, as in a mortar, with or without the addition of a liquid.
- levirate — the custom of marriage by a man with his brother's widow, such marriage required in Biblical law if the deceased was childless. Deut. 25:5–10.
- levitate — to rise or float in the air, especially as a result of a supernatural power that overcomes gravity.
- listserv — any similar software program.
- 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.
- livetrap — a trap for capturing a wild animal alive and without injury.
- locative — (in certain inflected languages) noting a case whose distinctive function is to indicate place in or at which, as Latin domī “at home.”.
- love rat — Journalists sometimes use love rat to refer to a man who treats his partner in a cruel way, especially by having sexual relationships with other people.
- love set — a set in which one's opponent fails to win a game.
- lovebite — Alternative spelling of love bite.
- lovefest — (informal) An effusive exchange of good will.
- loveseat — a chair or small upholstered sofa for two persons.
- mazeltov — Alternative spelling of mazel tov.
- megavolt — a unit of electromotive force, equal to one million volts. Abbreviation: MV.
- natively — being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one's native land.
- nervelet — a small, delicate nerve
- novelist — a person who writes novels.
- obvolute — rolled or turned in.
- olivette — a large floodlight having a single bulb.
- olivetti — (company) A large Italian company producing office machinery, computers and printers. Olivetti took a controlling stake in Acorn Computers in September 1985. Olivetti computers were once marketed in USA with the ATT brand name.
- outlived — Simple past tense and past participle of outlive.
- outliver — (obsolete) A survivor.
- outlives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outlive.
- outvalue — Be of greater value than.
- overlate — occurring, coming, or being after the usual or proper time: late frosts; a late spring.
- overmelt — to melt too much
- overplot — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- oversalt — to put too much salt in
- overtalk — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- overtoil — to work too hard