8-letter words containing v
- arvicole — a mouse or water vole that belongs to the genus Arvicola
- as level — a public examination taken for the General Certificate of Education, with a smaller course content than an A level: since 2000 taken either as the first part of a full A level or as a qualification in its own right
- atavisms — Plural form of atavism.
- atavists — Biology. the reappearance in an individual of characteristics of some remote ancestor that have been absent in intervening generations. an individual embodying such a reversion.
- auditive — a person who learns primarily by listening
- autosave — a function on a computer that automatically saves data at regular intervals
- auvergne — a region of S central France: largely mountainous, rising over 1800 m (6000 ft)
- avadavat — either of two Asian weaverbirds of the genus Estrilda, esp E. amandava, having a red plumage: often kept as cagebirds
- availeth — Archaic third-person singular form of avail.
- availing — to be of use or value to; profit; advantage: All our efforts availed us little in trying to effect a change.
- avantist — short for avant-gardist
- avellane — of hazelnuts
- avengers — to take vengeance or exact satisfaction for: to avenge a grave insult.
- avenging — taking vengeance on someone or something for a wrong done
- aventail — the movable front flap on a helmet
- aventine — one of the seven hills on which Rome was built
- aventure — (obsolete) Accident; chance; adventure.
- avenzoar — 1091?–1162, Arab physician and writer in Spain: founder of Almohad dynasty.
- averaged — Simple past tense and past participle of average.
- averager — person who calculates average claims
- averages — Achieve or amount to as an average rate or amount over a period of time.
- averment — the act of averring.
- avernus' — a crater lake in S Italy, near Naples and the Tyrrhenian Sea, thought by ancients to be the entrance to the underworld.
- averring — to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner.
- averroes — Arabic name ibn-Rushd. 1126–88, Arab philosopher and physician in Spain, noted particularly for his attempts to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy with Islamic religion, which profoundly influenced Christian scholasticism
- aversely — having a strong feeling of opposition, antipathy, repugnance, etc.; opposed: He is not averse to having a drink now and then.
- aversion — If you have an aversion to someone or something, you dislike them very much.
- aversity — The state or condition of being averse.
- aversive — tending to dissuade or repel
- averstar — (company) The US software engineering company that developed Hal, under their former name, "Intermetrics". Other products include CS-4, Red, Mwave Developers Toolkit (multimedia for IBM PC), cross-compilers for C and C++; Ada '83, Ada 95, and SAMeDL. AverStar also supply client/server systems; custom software applications and turnkey systems; independent verification and validation; CAE integration technology; languages and compilers: Ada, C, C++, HDLs (MHDL), Modula, SPL/1. Address: Intermetrics, Inc., 733 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Telephone: +1 (617) 661 1840. Fax: +1 (617) 868 2843. Address: 7918 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, Va 22102, USA. Telephone: +1 (703) 827-2606. Fax: +1 (703) 827-5560. Also Houston, TX, Huntington Beach, CA, Warminster, PA, and others.
- averting — Present participle of avert.
- avianize — to modify microorganisms by repeated culturing in chicken embryos
- aviaries — Plural form of aviary.
- aviarist — a person who keeps an aviary
- aviating — Present participle of aviate.
- aviation — Aviation is the operation and production of aircraft.
- aviators — Plural form of aviator.
- aviatrix — a female aviator
- avicenna — Arabic name ibn-Sina. 980–1037, Arab philosopher and physician whose philosophical writings, which combined Aristotelianism with neo-Platonist ideas, greatly influenced scholasticism, and whose medical work Qanun was the greatest single influence on medieval medicine
- avicular — of or relating to small birds
- avidness — a desire to advance; eagerness
- aviemore — a winter sports resort in Scotland, in Moray between the Monadhliath and Cairngorm Mountains. Pop: 2397 (2001)
- avifauna — all the birds in a particular region
- avigator — aerial navigation.
- avionics — Avionics is the science of electronics used in aviation.
- avocados — Plural form of avocado.
- avogadro — Amedeo (ameˈdɛːo), Conte di Quaregna. 1776–1856, Italian physicist, noted for his work on gases
- avoidant — (of behaviour) demonstrating a tendency to avoid intimacy or interaction with others
- avoiders — Plural form of avoider.
- avoiding — Present participle of avoid.