8-letter words containing v, e, t
- deviltry — reckless mischief, fun, etc.
- devolute — (obsolete) To devolve.
- devotees — Plural form of devotee.
- devoting — to give up or appropriate to or concentrate on a particular pursuit, occupation, purpose, cause, etc.: to devote one's time to reading.
- devotion — Devotion is great love, affection, or admiration for someone.
- devoutly — Devoutly is used to emphasize how sincerely or deeply you hope for something or believe in something.
- dilative — serving or tending to dilate.
- dilutive — to make (a liquid) thinner or weaker by the addition of water or the like.
- divagate — to wander; stray.
- divalent — having a valence of two, as the ferrous ion, Fe ++ .
- diverted — to turn aside or from a path or course; deflect.
- diverter — to turn aside or from a path or course; deflect.
- divested — Simple past tense and past participle of divest.
- divident — (obsolete) dividend; share.
- divinest — of or relating to a god, especially the Supreme Being.
- donative — a gift or donation.
- dovecote — a structure, usually at a height above the ground, for housing domestic pigeons.
- dovetail — a tenon broader at its end than at its base; pin.
- downvote — such an unfavorable vote.
- drive at — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- dudevant — Madame Amandine Lucile Aurore [French a-mahn-deen ly-seel oh-rawr] /French a mɑ̃ˈdin lüˈsil oʊˈrɔr/ (Show IPA), Sand, George.
- durative — noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing incomplete or continued action. Beat and walk are durative in contrast to strike and step.
- duvetine — a napped fabric, in a twilled or plain weave, of cotton, wool, silk, or rayon.
- e-voting — electronic voting.
- eductive — educing; serving to educe.
- ejective — Denoting a type of consonant in some languages, e.g., Hausa, produced by sudden release of pressure from the glottis.
- elective — Related to or working by means of election.
- elevated — Situated or placed higher than the surrounding area.
- elevates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elevate.
- elevator — A platform or compartment housed in a shaft for raising and lowering people or things to different floors or levels.
- eleventh — Constituting number eleven in a sequence; 11th.
- eleventy — (humorous) The number 110, 11 \u00d7 10.
- eluviate — to undergo eluviation
- en avant — forward; onward; ahead
- enactive — Having power to enact or establish as a law.
- enervate — Cause (someone) to feel drained of energy or vitality; weaken.
- equative — (grammar) Of, pertaining to, or being an equative.
- erective — Making erect or upright; raising.
- ergative — Relating to or denoting a case of nouns (in some languages, e.g., Basque and Eskimo) that identifies the subject of a transitive verb and is different from the case that identifies the subject of an intransitive verb.
- eruptive — Of, relating to, or formed by volcanic activity.
- estivate — (of an animal, particularly an insect, fish, or amphibian) spend a hot or dry period in a prolonged state of torpor or dormancy.
- estovers — a right allowed by law to tenants of land to cut timber, esp for fuel and repairs
- evacuant — A medicine that induces some kind of bodily discharge, such as an emetic, a sudorific, or especially a laxative.
- evacuate — Remove (someone) from a place of danger to a safe place.
- evaluate — Form an idea of the amount, number, or value of; assess.
- evanston — a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan north of Chicago: Northwestern University (1851). Pop: 74 360 (2003 est)
- evection — (astronomy) Modification of the lunar orbit due to the gravitational effects of the Sun.
- even out — become flatter or more level
- eventers — Plural form of eventer.
- eventful — Marked by interesting or exciting events.