7-letter words containing a, v, e
- carvery — an eating establishment at which customers pay a set price and may then have unrestricted helpings of food from a variety of meats, salads, and other vegetables
- casevac — to evacuate (a casualty) from a combat zone, usually by air
- cauvery — a river in S India, rising in the Western Ghats and flowing southeast to the Bay of Bengal. Length: 765 km (475 miles)
- cave in — If something such as a roof or a ceiling caves in, it collapses inwards.
- cave-in — a collapse, as of anything hollow: the worst cave-in in the history of mining.
- caveats — Plural form of caveat.
- caveman — Cavemen were people in prehistoric times who lived mainly in caves.
- cavemen — Plural form of caveman.
- caverns — Plural form of cavern.
- cavetto — a concave moulding, shaped to a quarter circle in cross section
- caviare — the roe of sturgeon, especially the beluga, or other fish, usually served as an hors d'oeuvre or appetizer.
- caviled — Simple past tense and past participle of cavil.
- caviler — a person who cavils
- centavo — a monetary unit of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Mexico, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and the Philippines. It is worth one hundredth of their respective standard units
- cervena — a trademarked set of quality standards for farm-produced venison
- cerveza — beer
- charver — a young woman
- charvet — a soft, lusterless silk or rayon tie fabric, often made with a faint stripe effect.
- clavate — shaped like a club with the thicker end uppermost
- clavers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of claver.
- clavier — any keyboard instrument
- cleaved — Cleft or cloven.
- cleaver — A cleaver is a knife with a large square blade, used for chopping meat or vegetables.
- cleaves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cleave.
- coaeval — a contemporary
- coevals — Plural form of coeval.
- concave — A surface that is concave curves inwards in the middle.
- couvade — a custom in certain cultures of treating the husband of a woman giving birth as if he were bearing the child
- cravens — Plural form of craven.
- curvate — curved in form
- danvers — a town in NE Massachusetts, near Boston.
- datives — Plural form of dative.
- de vega — Lope [loh-pey,, -pee;; Spanish law-pe] /ˈloʊ peɪ,, -pi;; Spanish ˈlɔ pɛ/ (Show IPA), (Lope Félix de Vega Carpio) 1562–1635, Spanish dramatist and poet.
- deceave — Obsolete form of deceive.
- deja vu — Déjà vu is the feeling that you have already experienced the things that are happening to you now.
- deleave — to separate copies of (printed material)
- delvaux — Paul. 1897–1994, Belgian surrealist painter: his works portray dreamlike figures in mysterious settings
- deprave — Something that depraves someone makes them morally bad or evil.
- devalue — To devalue something means to cause it to be thought less impressive or less deserving of respect.
- deviant — Deviant behaviour or thinking is different from what people normally consider to be acceptable.
- deviate — To deviate from something means to start doing something different or not planned, especially in a way that causes problems for others.
- devisal — the act of inventing, contriving, or devising; contrivance
- dissave — to withdraw or spend savings, especially to meet increased living expenses.
- dogvane — a small vane that shows the direction of the wind, mounted in a position visible to a helmsman.
- dravite — a brown variety of magnesium tourmaline.
- drivage — a horizontal or inclined heading or roadway in the process of construction.
- dwarves — a plural of dwarf.
- elative — (grammar) In Semitic languages, the \u201cadjective of superiority.\u201d In some languages such as Arabic, the concepts of comparative and superlative degree of an adjective are merged into a single form, the 'elative'. How this form is understood or translated depends upon context and definiteness. In the absence of comparison, the elative conveys the notion of \u201cgreatest\u201d, \u201csupreme.\u201d.
- elevate — Raise or lift (something) up to a higher position.
- eluvial — Of or pertaining to eluvium.