7-letter words containing a, v, e
- embrave — (obsolete) To inspire with bravery.
- enclave — A portion of territory within or surrounded by a larger territory whose inhabitants are culturally or ethnically distinct.
- engrave — Cut or carve (a text or design) on the surface of a hard object.
- enslave — Make (someone) a slave.
- envault — to enclose in a vault; entomb
- estival — Belonging to or appearing in summer.
- evacate — (obsolete) To empty.
- evacuee — A person evacuated from a place of danger to somewhere safe.
- evaders — Plural form of evader.
- evading — Present participle of evade.
- evangel — The Christian gospel.
- evanish — (archaic, intransitive) To vanish.
- evasion — The action of evading something.
- evasive — Tending to avoid commitment or self-revelation, esp. by responding only indirectly.
- even as — at the very same moment or in the very same way that
- evesham — a town in W central England, in W Worcestershire, on the River Avon: scene of the Battle of Evesham in 1265 (Lord Edward's defeat of Simon de Montfort and the barons); centre of the Vale of Evesham, famous for market gardens and orchards. Pop: 22 179 (2001)
- evirate — to emasculate; to castrate
- evocate — (rare) To evoke.
- exclave — A portion of territory of one state completely surrounded by territory of another or others, as viewed by the home territory.
- exuviae — An animal's cast or sloughed skin, especially that of an insect larva.
- exuvial — Related to something sloughed off or stripped away.
- factive — (of a verb, adjective, or noun phrase) presupposing the truth of an embedded sentence that serves as complement, as realize in I didn't realize that he had left, which presupposes that it is true that he had left.
- fadeyev — Aleksandr Aleksandrovich [al-ig-zan-der al-ig-zan-druh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahndr uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər ˌæl ɪgˈzæn drə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑndr ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1901–56, Russian novelist.
- favelas — Plural form of favela.
- favella — (in certain red algae) a cystocarp covered by a gelatinous envelope.
- faveoli — a small pit or cavity resembling a cell of a honeycomb; alveola.
- favored — regarded or treated with preference or partiality: Her beauty made her the favored child.
- favorer — One who favors.
- favrile — type of iridescent glass
- flavine — Chemistry. acriflavine hydrochloride.
- flavone — a colorless, crystalline, water-insoluble compound, C 15 H 10 O 2 , the parent substance of a group of naturally occurring derivatives some of which have been used as yellow dyes.
- forgave — simple past tense of forgive.
- foveate — having foveae; pitted.
- foveola — a small fovea; a very small pit or depression.
- gaveled — Simple past tense and past participle of gavel.
- gavotte — an old French dance in moderately quick quadruple meter.
- genevan — of or relating to Geneva, Switzerland.
- gervais — (sometimes initial capital letter) an unsalted French cream cheese made from whole milk and cream.
- giaever — Ivar [ee-vahr] /ˈi vɑr/ (Show IPA), born 1929, U.S. physicist, born in Norway: Nobel Prize 1973.
- givable — Capable of being given.
- glaives — Plural form of glaive.
- gravels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gravel.
- gravely — Samuel L(ee), Jr. 1922–2004, U.S. naval officer: first black admiral.
- gravers — Plural form of graver.
- gravest — slow; solemn.
- gravies — Plural form of gravy.
- gravure — an intaglio process of photomechanical printing, such as photogravure or rotogravure.
- greaved — a piece of plate armor for the leg between the knee and the ankle, usually composed of front and back pieces.
- greaves — a piece of plate armor for the leg between the knee and the ankle, usually composed of front and back pieces.
- guevara — Ernesto [er-nes-taw] /ɛrˈnɛs tɔ/ (Show IPA), ("Che") 1928–67, Cuban revolutionist and political leader, born in Argentina.