8-letter words containing v, a, s
- aviators — Plural form of aviator.
- avidness — a desire to advance; eagerness
- avionics — Avionics is the science of electronics used in aviation.
- avocados — Plural form of avocado.
- avoiders — Plural form of avoider.
- avoision — the non-payment of tax which cannot be classified as either avoidance or evasion
- avouches — to make frank acknowledgment or affirmation of; declare or assert with positiveness.
- 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
- avulsive — Of or pertaining to an avulsion.
- baklavas — Plural form of baklava.
- bavarois — Bavarian cream.
- beauvais — a market town in N France, 64 km (40 miles) northwest of Paris. Pop: 55 392 (1999)
- beslaver — to fawn, or to slobber, over
- bonavist — hyacinth bean.
- bovarism — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
- bud vase — a relatively tall, slender vase, usually footed, for holding a single, stemmed flower, usually a rosebud
- cadavers — Plural form of cadaver.
- 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)
- canvased — Simple past tense and past participle of canvas.
- canvaser — Alt form canvasser.
- canvases — a closely woven, heavy cloth of cotton, hemp, or linen, used for tents, sails, etc.
- captives — Plural form of captive; persons held prisoner.
- caravans — Plural form of caravan.
- caravels — Plural form of caravel.
- carvings — Plural form of carving.
- casanova — Giovanni Jacopo (dʒoˈvanni ˈjaːkopo). 1725–98, Italian adventurer noted for his Mémoires, a vivid account of his sexual adventures and of contemporary society
- casevacs — Plural form of casevac.
- cavefish — any of various small freshwater cyprinodont fishes of the genera Amblyopsis, Chologaster, etc, living in subterranean and other waters in S North America
- cavesson — a kind of hard noseband, used (esp formerly) in breaking a horse in
- cavities — Plural form of cavity.
- centavos — Plural form of centavo.
- cervelas — a French garlic sausage
- cervezas — beer.
- cessavit — (UK, legal, obsolete) A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
- cheshvan — (in the Jewish calendar) the eighth month of the year according to biblical reckoning and the second month of the civil year, usually falling within October and November
- cistvaen — a pre-Christian stone coffin or burial chamber
- claviers — Plural form of clavier.
- cleavers — a Eurasian rubiaceous plant, Galium aparine, having small white flowers and prickly stems and fruits
- 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.
- cravings — great or eager desire; yearning.
- crevasse — A crevasse is a large, deep crack in thick ice or rock.
- 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
- depraves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deprave.
- devadasi — A hereditary female dancer and courtesan in a Hindu temple.
- devalues — Reduce or underestimate the worth or importance of.
- devasted — Simple past tense and past participle of devast.
- deviants — Plural form of deviant.
- deviates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deviate.