8-letter words containing v, a, i, l
- lavishly — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- lawgiver — a person who promulgates a law or a code of laws.
- laxative — a medicine or agent for relieving constipation.
- leavings — something that is left; residue.
- levation — The act of raising; elevation or upward motion, such as that produced by the action of a levator muscle.
- leviable — that may be levied.
- 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.
- limavady — a district of N Northern Ireland, in Co Londonderry. Pop: 33 571 (2003 est). Area: 586 sq km (226 sq miles)
- live oak — an evergreen oak, Quercus virginiana, of the southern U.S., having a short, broad trunk and shiny, oblong leaves: the state tree of Georgia.
- liveable — suitable for living in; habitable; comfortable: It took a lot of work to make the old house livable.
- livetrap — a trap for capturing a wild animal alive and without injury.
- liveware — /li:v'weir/ 1. A less common synonym for wetware 2. (Cambridge) Vermin. "Waiter, there's some liveware in my salad."
- livonian — a former Russian province on the Baltic: now part of Latvia and Estonia.
- locative — (in certain inflected languages) noting a case whose distinctive function is to indicate place in or at which, as Latin domī “at home.”.
- mail van — a small or medium-sized road vehicle that is used to transport letters, packages, etc
- maldives — a republic in the Indian Ocean, SW of India, consisting of about 2000 islands: British protectorate 1887–1965. 115 sq. mi. (298 sq. km). Capital: Male.
- malevich — Kasimir [kaz-uh mir] /ˈkæz əmɪr/ (Show IPA), 1878–1935, Russian painter: founder of suprematism.
- malvasia — a sweet grape from which malmsey wine is made.
- malvinas — a female given name.
- manville — a borough in N central New Jersey.
- medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
- misvalue — (transitive) To value wrongly: to misjudge the value of.
- moldavia — a region in NE Romania: formerly a principality that united with Wallachia to form Romania. Capital: Jassy.
- natively — being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one's native land.
- navalism — the promotion of naval interests
- navicula — an incense holder or incense boat
- nonrival — (of goods or resources) capable of being enjoyed or consumed by many consumers simultaneously and therefore without rivalry, eg cable television
- nonvalid — not valid; invalid
- nonviral — not caused by a virus, not viral in origin
- nonvital — not vital
- novalike — Resembling a nova or some aspect of one.
- oakville — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, SW of Toronto, on Lake Ontario.
- obviable — having the ability to be obviated
- olivares — Conde-Ducque de, title of Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimental. 1587–1645, Spanish statesman: court favourite and prime minister (1621–43) of Philip IV. His attempts to establish Hapsburg domination of Europe ended in failure
- outcavil — to exceed in cavilling
- outrival — a person who is competing for the same object or goal as another, or who tries to equal or outdo another; competitor.
- ovariole — any of several tubules that compose an insect ovary.
- overlaid — simple past tense of overlie.
- overlain — past participle of overlie.
- oversail — a projection
- ovicidal — a substance or preparation, especially an insecticide, capable of killing egg cells.
- paravail — being below or inferior to all others; specifically, being a tenant of one who holds land of another who is also a tenant: a tenant paravail.
- parzival — Percival.
- pavilion — a light, usually open building used for shelter, concerts, exhibits, etc., as in a park or fair.
- pavillon — the bell of a wind instrument.
- percival — Also, Perceval, Percivale. Arthurian Romance. a knight of King Arthur's court who sought the Holy Grail: comparable to Parzival or Parsifal in Teutonic legend.
- plausive — applauding.
- primeval — of or relating to the first age or ages, especially of the world: primeval forms of life.