7-letter words containing v, a
- craiova — a city in SW Romania, on the Jiul River. Pop: 285 000 (2005 est)
- cravats — Plural form of cravat.
- cravens — Plural form of craven.
- craving — an intense desire or longing
- curvate — curved in form
- danvers — a town in NE Massachusetts, near Boston.
- datavis — A dataflow language for scientific visualisation.
- datival — (in certain inflected languages, as Latin, Greek, and German) noting a case having as a distinctive function indication of the indirect object of a verb or the object of certain prepositions.
- datives — Plural form of dative.
- daugava — Latvian name of Dvina.
- david i — 1084–1153, king of Scotland (1124–53) who supported his niece Matilda's claim to the English throne and unsuccessfully invaded England on her behalf
- davidia — any tree of the genus Davidia, esp Davidia involucrata, which is native to China and has white, dovelike flowers
- davidic — of or relating to the Biblical David or his descendants.
- de vega — Lope [loh-pey,, -pee;; Spanish law-pe] /ˈloʊ peɪ,, -pi;; Spanish ˈlɔ pɛ/ (Show IPA), (Lope Félix de Vega Carpio) 1562–1635, Spanish dramatist and poet.
- deceave — Obsolete form of deceive.
- deja vu — Déjà vu is the feeling that you have already experienced the things that are happening to you now.
- deleave — to separate copies of (printed material)
- delvaux — Paul. 1897–1994, Belgian surrealist painter: his works portray dreamlike figures in mysterious settings
- deprave — Something that depraves someone makes them morally bad or evil.
- devalue — To devalue something means to cause it to be thought less impressive or less deserving of respect.
- deviant — Deviant behaviour or thinking is different from what people normally consider to be acceptable.
- deviate — To deviate from something means to start doing something different or not planned, especially in a way that causes problems for others.
- devisal — the act of inventing, contriving, or devising; contrivance
- diluvia — a coarse surficial deposit formerly attributed to a general deluge but now regarded as glacial drift.
- disavow — to disclaim knowledge of, connection with, or responsibility for; disown; repudiate: He disavowed the remark that had been attributed to him.
- dissave — to withdraw or spend savings, especially to meet increased living expenses.
- dogvane — a small vane that shows the direction of the wind, mounted in a position visible to a helmsman.
- donovan — William Joseph ("Wild Bill") 1883–1959, U.S. lawyer and military officer: organizer and director of the OSS 1942–45.
- dravida — any of the Dravidian languages
- dravite — a brown variety of magnesium tourmaline.
- drivage — a horizontal or inclined heading or roadway in the process of construction.
- dvandva — a compound word neither element of which is subordinate to the other, as bittersweet, Anglo-Saxon.
- dvd-ram — Digital Versatile Disk Random Access Memory
- dwarves — a plural of dwarf.
- elative — (grammar) In Semitic languages, the \u201cadjective of superiority.\u201d In some languages such as Arabic, the concepts of comparative and superlative degree of an adjective are merged into a single form, the 'elative'. How this form is understood or translated depends upon context and definiteness. In the absence of comparison, the elative conveys the notion of \u201cgreatest\u201d, \u201csupreme.\u201d.
- elevate — Raise or lift (something) up to a higher position.
- eluvial — Of or pertaining to eluvium.
- embrave — (obsolete) To inspire with bravery.
- enclave — A portion of territory within or surrounded by a larger territory whose inhabitants are culturally or ethnically distinct.
- engrave — Cut or carve (a text or design) on the surface of a hard object.
- enslave — Make (someone) a slave.
- envault — to enclose in a vault; entomb
- estival — Belonging to or appearing in summer.
- evacate — (obsolete) To empty.
- evacuee — A person evacuated from a place of danger to somewhere safe.
- evaders — Plural form of evader.
- evading — Present participle of evade.
- evangel — The Christian gospel.
- evanish — (archaic, intransitive) To vanish.
- evasion — The action of evading something.