7-letter words containing v, a, r
- klavern — a local branch of the Ku Klux Klan.
- klavier — any musical instrument having a keyboard, especially a stringed keyboard instrument, as a harpsichord, clavichord, or piano.
- knavery — action or practice characteristic of a knave.
- kosovar — also Kosovan
- kremvax — /krem-vaks/ (Or kgbvax) Originally, a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, named like the then large number of Usenet VAXen with names of the form foovax. Kremvax was announced on April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko. The posting was actually forged by Piet Beertema as an April Fool's joke. Other fictitious sites mentioned in the hoax were moskvax and kgbvax. This was probably the funniest of the many April Fool's forgeries perpetrated on Usenet (which has negligible security against them), because the notion that Usenet might ever penetrate the Iron Curtain seemed so totally absurd at the time. In fact, it was only six years later that the first genuine site in Moscow, demos.su, joined Usenet. Some readers needed convincing that the postings from it weren't just another prank. Vadim Antonov, senior programmer at Demos and the major poster from there up to mid-1991, was quite aware of all this, referred to it frequently in his own postings, and at one point twitted some credulous readers by blandly asserting that he *was* a hoax! Eventually he even arranged to have the domain's gateway site *named* kremvax, thus neatly turning fiction into truth and demonstrating that the hackish sense of humour transcends cultural barriers. Mr. Antonov also contributed some Russian-language material for the Jargon File. In an even more ironic historical footnote, kremvax became an electronic centre of the anti-communist resistance during the bungled hard-line coup of August 1991. During those three days the Soviet UUCP network centreed on kremvax became the only trustworthy news source for many places within the USSR. Though the sysops were concentrating on internal communications, cross-border postings included immediate transliterations of Boris Yeltsin's decrees condemning the coup and eyewitness reports of the demonstrations in Moscow's streets. In those hours, years of speculation that totalitarianism would prove unable to maintain its grip on politically-loaded information in the age of computer networking were proved devastatingly accurate - and the original kremvax joke became a reality as Yeltsin and the new Russian revolutionaries of "glasnost" and "perestroika" made kremvax one of the timeliest means of their outreach to the West.
- larvate — of, relating to, or in the form of a larva.
- lavaret — a whitefish, Coregonus lavaretus, found in the lakes of central Europe.
- lavater — Johann Kaspar [yoh-hahn kahs-pahr] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈkɑs pɑr/ (Show IPA), 1741–1801, Swiss poet, theologian, and physiognomist.
- laveran — Charles Louis Alphonse [sharl lwee al-fawns] /ʃarl lwi alˈfɔ̃s/ (Show IPA), 1845–1922, French physician and bacteriologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1907.
- layover — stopover.
- leavers — Plural form of leaver.
- leavier — leafy.
- levator — Anatomy. a muscle that raises a part of the body. Compare depressor.
- louvars — Plural form of louvar.
- ma'ariv — the evening service
- maciver — Loren, 1909–1998, U.S. painter.
- malvern — an urban area in W England, SW of Birmingham: mineral springs; incorporated into Malvern Hills 1974.
- markova — Alicia (Lilian Alicia Marks) 1910–2004, English ballet dancer.
- marvell — Andrew, 1621–78, English poet and satirist.
- marvels — Plural form of marvel.
- mavrone — An expression of sorrow; alas.
- minerva — the ancient Roman goddess of wisdom and the arts, identified with the Greek goddess Athena.
- misaver — to state incorrectly
- moravia — Alberto [ahl-ber-taw] /ɑlˈbɛr tɔ/ (Show IPA), (Alberto Pincherle) 1907–90, Italian writer.
- narvaez — Pánfilo de [pahm-fee-law th e] /ˈpɑm fiˌlɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1478?–1528, Spanish soldier and adventurer in America.
- nav bar — navigation bar
- navarch — (historical, Ancient Greece) The commander of a fleet.
- navarho — a navigation system providing information on bearing and distance
- navarin — a stew of mutton or lamb with root vegetables
- navarre — a former kingdom in SW France and N Spain.
- nervate — (of leaves) having veins.
- nirvana — (often initial capital letter). Pali nibbana. Buddhism. freedom from the endless cycle of personal reincarnations, with their consequent suffering, as a result of the extinction of individual passion, hatred, and delusion: attained by the Arhat as his goal but postponed by the Bodhisattva.
- olivary — shaped like an olive.
- ostrava — a city in N Moravia, in the NE Czech Republic.
- outrave — to outdo in raving
- ouvrage — work
- ovarial — ovarian
- ovarian — of or relating to an ovary.
- ovaries — Anatomy, Zoology. the female gonad or reproductive gland, in which the ova and the hormones that regulate female secondary sex characteristics develop.
- ovarium — ovary.
- overact — (of an actor) act a role in an exaggerated manner.
- overage — beyond the acceptable or desired age: overage for the draft.
- overall — overalls, (used with a plural verb) loose, sturdy trousers, usually with a bib or biblike piece to which shoulder straps are attached, originally worn over other trousers to protect them, as by factory workers or farmers. long waterproof leggings.
- overapt — too apt or having an excessive tendency (to)
- overarm — thrown or performed by raising the arm above the shoulder: an overarm pitch; an overarm swimming stroke.
- overate — simple past tense of overeat.
- overawe — to restrain or subdue by inspiring awe; intimidate: He often uses that imperious scowl to overawe his subordinates.
- overeat — to eat too much: If you overeat, you're bound to get fat.
- overfar — too far
- overfat — Having too much fat as a proportion of body mass.