8-letter words containing v
- avoision — the non-payment of tax which cannot be classified as either avoidance or evasion
- avoucher — a person who avouches
- avouches — to make frank acknowledgment or affirmation of; declare or assert with positiveness.
- 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.
- bedcover — a bedspread
- bedevils — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedevil.
- bedivere — the loyal knight who is with the dying King Arthur and sees him off to Avalon
- bedrivel — to drivel upon or cover in dribble
- beehives — Plural form of beehive.
- beeville — a city in S Texas.
- 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.
- behooved — to be necessary or proper for, as for moral or ethical considerations; be incumbent on: It behooves the court to weigh evidence impartially.
- behooves — use; advantage; benefit: The money was spent for his own behoof.
- behovely — useful
- believed — to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so: Only if one believes in something can one act purposefully.
- believer — If you are a great believer in something, you think that it is good, right, or useful.
- believes — to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so: Only if one believes in something can one act purposefully.
- bellevue — city in NW Wash.: suburb of Seattle: pop. 110,000
- 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
- beshiver — to shatter
- beslaver — to fawn, or to slobber, over
- bevatron — a proton synchrotron at the University of California
- beveling — the inclination that one line or surface makes with another when not at right angles.
- bevelled — If a piece of wood, metal, or glass has bevelled edges, its edges are cut sloping.
- beveller — the inclination that one line or surface makes with another when not at right angles.
- beverage — Beverages are drinks.
- beverley — a market town in NE England, the administrative centre of the East Riding of Yorkshire. Pop: 29 110 (2001)
- bi-level — having two levels of space, as a railroad passenger car with two tiers of seats.
- biconvex — (of a lens) having convex faces on both sides; convexo-convex
- bienvenu — welcome.
- big five — the five countries considered to be the major world powers. In the period immediately following World War II, the US, Britain, the Soviet Union, China, and France were regarded as the Big Five
- biovular — (of twins) from two separate eggs