8-letter words containing v, e, g
- scavenge — to take or gather (something usable) from discarded material.
- selvagee — rope wound round and used as straps or stoppers on ships
- selvedge — the edge of woven fabric finished so as to prevent raveling, often in a narrow tape effect, different from the body of the fabric.
- shelving — material for shelves.
- sleaving — to divide or separate into filaments, as silk.
- sleeving — the part of a garment that covers the arm, varying in form and length but commonly tubular.
- stravage — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- svedberg — The(odor) [tey-oh-dawr] /ˈteɪ oʊˌdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1884–1971, Swedish chemist: Nobel prize 1926.
- svengali — a person who completely dominates another, usually with selfish or sinister motives.
- thieving — to take by theft; steal.
- travelog — a lecture, slide show, or motion picture describing travels.
- turgenev — Ivan Sergeevich [ee-vahn syir-gye-yi-vyich] /iˈvɑn syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1818–83, Russian novelist.
- v region — variable region.
- v-engine — an internal-combustion engine having two opposed banks of cylinders inclined so that they form a V -shaped angle.
- vagaries — an unpredictable or erratic action, occurrence, course, or instance: the vagaries of weather; the vagaries of the economic scene.
- vaginate — having a vagina or sheath; sheathed.
- valeting — a male servant who attends to the personal needs of his male employer, as by taking care of clothing or the like; manservant.
- vargueno — a fall-front desk of the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries, having the form of a chest upon a small table.
- vaultage — a group of vaults; a vaulted place
- veganism — a vegetarian who omits all animal products from the diet.
- vegelate — low-quality chocolate that contains a certain proportion of vegetable fats not derived from the cocoa bean
- vegemite — a vegetable extract used as a spread, flavouring, etc
- vegetant — causing growth
- vegetate — to grow in, or as in, the manner of a plant.
- vegetist — a vegetable cultivator or enthusiast
- vegetive — a vegetable
- vengeful — desiring or seeking vengeance; vindictive: a vengeful attitude.
- venogram — an x-ray of the veins produced by venography.
- venology — phlebology.
- verbiage — overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; wordiness; verbosity.
- verge on — the edge, rim, or margin of something: the verge of a desert; to operate on the verge of fraud.
- vergence — the turning motion of the eyeballs toward or away from each other. Compare convergence (def 4), divergence (def 3).
- vergency — an inclination or tendency; the act of verging or approaching
- verligte — (during apartheid) a person of any of the White political parties who supported liberal trends in government policy
- vestigia — a vestigial structure of any kind; vestige.
- vicarage — the residence of a vicar.
- vicinage — the region near or about a place; vicinity.
- vietcong — a Communist-led army and guerrilla force in South Vietnam that fought its government and was supported by North Vietnam.
- vigneron — a winemaker.
- vignette — a decorative design or small illustration used on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of a chapter.
- villager — an inhabitant of a village.
- villages — The, a city in central Oklahoma.
- vinegary — of the nature of or resembling vinegar; sour; acid: a vinegary taste.
- vintager — a person who helps in the harvest of grapes for winemaking.
- virogene — a type of virus-forming gene
- visegrad — a town in N Hungary, NW of Budapest on the Danube: site of summit in 1991 of the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland.
- vogueing — a dance style of the late 1980s, in which a fashion model's movements and postures are imitated in a highly stylized manner
- vonnegut — Kurt, Jr. 1922–2007, U.S. novelist.
- voyageur — (in Canada) a person who is an expert woodsman, boatman, and guide in remote regions, especially one employed by fur companies to transport supplies to and from their distant stations.
- vychegda — a river in N European Russia, flowing W to the Northern Dvina River. 702 miles (1130 km) long.