8-letter words containing v
- advocaat — a liqueur having a raw egg base
- advocacy — Someone's advocacy of a particular action or plan is their act of recommending it publicly.
- advocate — If you advocate a particular action or plan, you recommend it publicly.
- advoutry — adultery
- advowson — the right of presentation to a vacant benefice
- aestival — of or occurring in summer
- agentive — (in some inflected languages) denoting a case of nouns, etc, indicating the agent described by the verb
- aggrieve — to grieve; distress; afflict
- air vent — a small opening through which air can escape from an enclosed space
- airwaves — The airwaves is used to refer to the activity of broadcasting on radio and television. For example, if someone says something over the airwaves, they say it on the radio or television.
- alchevsk — a city in E Ukraine. Pop: 117 000 (2005 est)
- aleviate — Misspelling of alleviate.
- alewives — Plural form of alewife.
- alive to — fully aware of; perceiving
- all over — All over a place means in every part of it.
- all-over — upper; higher up.
- allative — the grammatical case, or a word used in the case, that in certain languages denotes movement towards something
- allusive — Allusive speech, writing, or art is full of indirect references to people or things.
- alluvial — Alluvial soils are soils which consist of earth and sand left behind on land which has been flooded or where a river once flowed.
- alluvion — the wash of the sea or of a river
- alluvium — a fine-grained fertile soil consisting of mud, silt, and sand deposited by flowing water on flood plains, in river beds, and in estuaries
- alvarado — ˈPedro de (ˈpɛdroʊ deɪ ) ; peˈdrō dā) 1495-1541; Sp. general with Cortés in the conquest of Mexico
- alveated — resembling the channels of a beehive
- alveolae — a small cavity, cell, or pit on the surface of an organ.
- alveolar — of, relating to, or resembling an alveolus
- alveolus — any small pit, cavity, or saclike dilation, such as a honeycomb cell
- amadavat — avadavat.
- amaduvad — Alternative form of avadavat.
- ambivert — a person who is intermediate between an extrovert and an introvert
- amravati — a town in central India, in NE Maharashtra: cotton centre. Pop: 549 370 (2001)
- andreyev — ˌLeonid Nikolaˈyevich (ˌlɛɔˈnidˌ nikɔlɑˈjeɪvɪtʃ ) ; leˌ^ōnēdˈ nēˌk^ōläyāˈvich) 1871-1919; Russ. playwright, novelist, & short-story writer
- andropov — Yuri Vladimirovich. 1914–84, Soviet statesman; president of the Soviet Union (1983–84)
- anovular — not associated with or accompanied by ovulation
- antenave — a porch or narthex before the nave of a church.
- antevert — to displace (an organ or part) by tilting it forward
- antigrav — (science fiction) antigravity, or a device that counters gravity.
- approval — If you win someone's approval for something that you ask for or suggest, they agree to it.
- approved — An approved method or course of action is officially accepted as appropriate in a particular situation.
- approver — a person who approves
- approves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of approve.
- archival — Archival means belonging or relating to archives.
- archived — Simple past tense and past participle of archive.
- archiver — One who, or that which, archives.
- archives — Usually, archives. documents or records relating to the activities, business dealings, etc., of a person, family, corporation, association, community, or nation.
- arrivals — Plural form of arrival.
- arriving — to come to a certain point in the course of travel; reach one's destination: He finally arrived in Rome.
- arrivism — the conduct or condition of an arriviste.
- ars nova — a style of music of the 14th century, characterized by great freedom and variety of rhythm and melody contrasted with the strictness of the music of the 13th century
- arteveld — Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˈyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1290?–1345, Flemish statesman.
- artivist — A person who engages in artivism.