8-letter words containing v, a
- avowable — Capable of being avowed or openly acknowledged with confidence.
- avowably — in an avowable manner; not secret or hidden
- avowance — (obsolete) Act of avowing; avowal.
- 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
- avulsive — Of or pertaining to an avulsion.
- ayurveda — an ancient medical treatise on the art of healing and prolonging life, sometimes regarded as a fifth Veda
- backveld — (in South Africa) a remote, sparsely populated, and often primitive area
- baklavas — Plural form of baklava.
- balakovo — a city in the W RSFSR, in the E SovietUnion in Europe, SW of Gorki.
- banville — Théodore de (teɔdɔr də). 1823–91, French poet, who anticipated the Parnassian school in his perfection of form and command of rhythm
- batavian — of or relating to Batavia (a former name for Holland or Jakarta) or its inhabitants
- bavarian — of or relating to Bavaria or its inhabitants
- bavarois — Bavarian cream.
- beauvais — a market town in N France, 64 km (40 miles) northwest of Paris. Pop: 55 392 (1999)
- beauvoir — Siˈmone de (siˈmɔn də ) ; sēm^ōnˈ də) 1908-86; Fr. existentialist writer
- beavered — Covered with, or wearing, a beaver or hat.
- 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.
- berdyaev — Nikoˈlai (Aleksandrovich) (nikɔˈlaɪ ) ; nēk^ōlīˈ) 1874-1948; Russ. religious philosopher, in France after 1922
- bereaved — A bereaved person is one who has a relative or close friend who has recently died.
- bereaver — a person who bereaves
- beslaver — to fawn, or to slobber, over
- bevatron — a proton synchrotron at the University of California
- beverage — Beverages are drinks.
- biovular — (of twins) from two separate eggs
- bivalent — (of homologous chromosomes) associated together in pairs
- 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
- breviary — a book of psalms, hymns, prayers, etc, to be recited daily by clerics in major orders and certain members of religious orders as part of the divine office
- breviate — a short account; a summary
- bucovina — Bukovina
- bud vase — a relatively tall, slender vase, usually footed, for holding a single, stemmed flower, usually a rosebud
- 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)
- burgrave — the military governor of a German town or castle, esp in the 12th and 13th centuries
- cab-over — a truck tractor or other vehicle in which the cab is located over the engine.
- cable tv — a television system in which a high antenna and one or more dish antennas receive signals from distant and local stations, electronic satellite relays, etc. and transmit them by direct cable to the receivers of persons subscribing to the system
- 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)
- calvaria — the top part of the skull of vertebrates
- 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.
- captived — Simple past tense and past participle of captive.
- captives — Plural form of captive; persons held prisoner.
- caravans — Plural form of caravan.