8-letter words containing v, a, g
- gavelman — a gavelkind tenant
- gavelock — a spear or javelin
- gavotted — Simple past tense and past participle of gavotte.
- gavottes — Plural form of gavotte.
- gigavolt — One thousand million ( 109 ) volts. Symbol: GV.
- gingivae — gum2 (def 1).
- gingival — of or relating to the gums.
- give ear — to give attention, esp. favorable attention; listen; heed
- give way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- giveable — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- giveaway — an act or instance of giving something away.
- giveback — (in union negotiations) a reduction in employee wages or benefits conceded by a union in exchange for other benefits or in recognition of depressed economic conditions: Givebacks have not slowed the number of shutdowns.
- gladvert — an advertisement that can be tailored to match the emotional state of the viewer
- glazunov — Alexander Konstantinovitch [al-ig-zan-der,, -zahn-,, kon-stuh n-tee-nuh-vich;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahndr kuh n-stuhn-tyee-nuh-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər,, -ˈzɑn-,, ˌkɒn stənˈti nə vɪtʃ;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑndr kən stʌnˈtyi nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1865–1936, Russian composer.
- gloveman — fielder.
- 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.
- gonaives — Gulf of, an inlet of the Caribbean Sea, between the two peninsulas of W Haiti.
- 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.
- gustavus — (Gustaf Adolf) 1882–1973, king of Sweden 1950–73 (son of Gustavus V).
- hangover — the disagreeable physical aftereffects of drunkenness, such as a headache or stomach disorder, usually felt several hours after cessation of drinking.
- have got — have, possess
- havering — a borough of Greater London, England.
- heavings — Plural form of heaving.
- ignatiev — Count Nikolai Pavlovich. 1832–1908, Russian diplomat and politician. As ambassador to Turkey (1864–77), he negotiated the Treaty of San Stefano (1878) ending the Russo-Turkish War
- invading — Present participle of invade.
- java fig — a small tree, Ficus benjamina, of the mulberry family, native to southeastern Asia and Australia, having drooping branches and glossy leaves: widely cultivated as a houseplant.
- jugoslav — a native or inhabitant of the former country of Yugoslavia.
- lawgiver — a person who promulgates a law or a code of laws.
- leave go — to stop holding
- leavings — something that is left; residue.
- leverage — the action of a lever, a rigid bar that pivots about one point and that is used to move an object at a second point by a force applied at a third.
- levigate — to rub, grind, or reduce to a fine powder, as in a mortar, with or without the addition of a liquid.
- longeval — Long-lived; longevous.
- longwave — (of radio waves) Having a wavelength of greater than 1000 meters.
- macgyver — Alternative spelling of MacGyver.
- mangrove — any tropical tree or shrub of the genus Rhizophora, the species of which are mostly low trees growing in marshes or tidal shores, noted for their interlacing above-ground adventitious roots.
- margrave — (formerly) the hereditary title of the rulers of certain European states.