8-letter words containing ev
- evitably — In an evitable way; avoidably.
- evocable — That can be evoked.
- evocated — Simple past tense and past participle of evocate.
- evocator — Someone who evokes.
- evolutes — Plural form of evolute.
- evolvent — an involute curve
- evolving — Present participle of evolve.
- evulgate — to make public; to divulge
- evulsion — (now rare) The action of forcibly pulling something out.
- eyelevel — level with a person's eyes when looking straight ahead
- feverfew — a bushy composite plant, Chrysanthemum parthenium, bearing small white flowers, formerly used as a remedy for fever and headache.
- fevering — an abnormal condition of the body, characterized by undue rise in temperature, quickening of the pulse, and disturbance of various body functions.
- feverish — having fever.
- feverous — feverish.
- forevers — Plural form of forever.
- freeview — In Britain, Freeview is a free service providing digital terrestrial television.
- get even — level; flat; without surface irregularities; smooth: an even road.
- go-devil — a flexible, jointed apparatus forced through a pipeline to free it from obstructions.
- greville — Fulke [foo lk] /fʊlk/ (Show IPA), 1st Baron Brooke, 1554–1628, English poet and statesman.
- grevious — Misspelling of grievous.
- grievand — One who is the object of a formal grievance.
- grievant — a person who submits a complaint for arbitration.
- grievers — to feel grief or great sorrow: She has grieved over his death for nearly three years.
- grieving — to feel grief or great sorrow: She has grieved over his death for nearly three years.
- grievous — causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
- hayfever — Alternative spelling of hay fever.
- hevelius — Johannes (Johann Hewel or Hewelke) 1611–87, Polish astronomer: charted the moon's surface and discovered four comets.
- hoccleve — Thomas, 1370–1450, English poet.
- ignatiev — Count Nikolai Pavlovich. 1832–1908, Russian diplomat and politician. As ambassador to Turkey (1864–77), he negotiated the Treaty of San Stefano (1878) ending the Russo-Turkish War
- indevour — Obsolete spelling of endeavour.
- indevout — not devout; lacking religious devotion; irreligious
- kalevala — (italics) the national epic of Finland (1835, enlarged 1849), compiled and arranged by Elias Lönnrot from popular lays of the Middle Ages.
- kishinev — a region in NE Romania: formerly a principality that united with Wallachia to form Romania. Capital: Jassy.
- kristeva — Julia, born 1941, French literary theorist, critic, and psychoanalyst, born in Bulgaria.
- kuntsevo — a former city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, incorporated into Moscow 1962.
- laevulin — a polysaccharide occurring in the tubers of certain helianthus plants
- levanted — Simple past tense and past participle of levant.
- levanter — a strong easterly wind in the Mediterranean.
- levation — The act of raising; elevation or upward motion, such as that produced by the action of a levator muscle.
- levators — Plural form of levator.
- leveeing — Present participle of levee.
- levelers — Plural form of leveler.
- leveling — having no part higher than another; having a flat or even surface.
- levelled — having no part higher than another; having a flat or even surface.
- leveller — a person or thing that levels.
- leverage — the action of a lever, a rigid bar that pivots about one point and that is used to move an object at a second point by a force applied at a third.
- leverets — Plural form of leveret.
- levering — Mechanics. a rigid bar that pivots about one point and that is used to move an object at a second point by a force applied at a third. Compare machine (def 4b).
- levertov — Denise, 1923–97, U.S. poet, born in England.
- levesque — René [ruh-ney;; French ruh-ney] /rəˈneɪ;; French rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1922–1987, Canadian political leader: premier of Quebec 1976–85.