8-letter words containing v, a, o
- avowedly — acknowledged; declared: an avowed enemy.
- avulsion — a forcible tearing away or separation of a bodily structure or part, either as the result of injury or as an intentional surgical procedure
- balakovo — a city in the W RSFSR, in the E SovietUnion in Europe, SW of Gorki.
- bavarois — Bavarian cream.
- beauvoir — Siˈmone de (siˈmɔn də ) ; sēm^ōnˈ də) 1908-86; Fr. existentialist writer
- 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.
- bevatron — a proton synchrotron at the University of California
- biovular — (of twins) from two separate eggs
- bloviate — to talk at length, esp in an insubstantial but inflated manner
- bob veal — the flesh of an unborn or newborn calf, used for food.
- bolivian — Bolivian means belonging or relating to Bolivia or its people.
- bonavist — hyacinth bean.
- bovarism — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
- bow wave — wave that forms at the front of a ship
- bucovina — Bukovina
- bukovina — a region of E central Europe, part of the NE Carpathians: the north was seized by the Soviet Union (1940) and later became part of Ukraine; the south remained Romanian
- bulgakov — Mikhail Afanaseyev (ʌfʌˈnasjef). 1891–1940, Soviet novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer; his novels include The Master and Margerita (1966–67)
- cab-over — a truck tractor or other vehicle in which the cab is located over the engine.
- calvados — a department of N France in the Basse-Normandie region. Capital: Caen. Pop: 659 893 (2003 est). Area: 5693 sq km (2198 sq miles)
- carveout — A small company created from a larger one.
- casanova — Giovanni Jacopo (dʒoˈvanni ˈjaːkopo). 1725–98, Italian adventurer noted for his Mémoires, a vivid account of his sexual adventures and of contemporary society
- cavalero — a gentleman or cavalier
- caveator — a person who enters a caveat
- cavesson — a kind of hard noseband, used (esp formerly) in breaking a horse in
- cavicorn — (of sheep, goats, etc) having hollow horns as distinct from the solid antlers of deer
- cavorted — Simple past tense and past participle of cavort.
- centavos — Plural form of centavo.
- coactive — acting together.
- conative — denoting an aspect of verbs in some languages used to indicate the effort of the agent in performing the activity described by the verb
- concaved — curved like a segment of the interior of a circle or hollow sphere; hollow and curved. Compare convex (def 1).
- conceave — Obsolete form of conceive.
- conclave — A conclave is a meeting at which the discussions are kept secret. The meeting which is held to elect a new Pope is called a conclave.
- conferva — any of various threadlike green algae, esp any of the genus Tribonema, typically occurring in fresh water
- conveyal — the act or means of conveying
- convival — (obsolete) Relating to a feast or festivity; convivial.
- cordovan — a fine leather now made principally from horsehide, isolated from the skin layers above and below it and tanned
- corrival — rival
- cosgrave — Liam (ˈliːəm). born 1920, Irish statesman; prime minister of the Republic of Ireland (1973–77)
- couvades — a practice among some peoples, as the Basques of Spain, in which a man, immediately preceding the birth of his child, takes to his bed in an enactment of the birth experience and subjects himself to various taboos usually associated with pregnancy.
- covalent — the number of electron pairs that an atom can share with other atoms.
- covenant — A covenant is a formal written agreement between two or more people or groups of people which is recognized in law.
- coverage — The coverage of something in the news is the reporting of it.
- coverall — a thing that covers something entirely
- danilova — Alexandra [al-ig-zan-druh,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-druh] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn drə,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə/ (Show IPA), 1904?–97, Russian ballet dancer.
- davidson — Jo(seph)1883-1952; U.S. sculptor
- davisson — Clinton Joseph. 1881–1958, US physicist, noted for his discovery of electron diffraction; shared the Nobel prize for physics in 1937
- deviator — to turn aside, as from a route, way, course, etc.
- devo max — an arrangement in which a central government transfers the maximum amount of authority to a regional government while still retaining sovereignty over it
- devonian — of, denoting, or formed in the fourth period of the Palaeozoic era, between the Silurian and Carboniferous periods, lasting 60-70 million years during which amphibians first appeared
- disavows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disavow.