8-letter words containing a, v, i
- 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.
- artivist — A person who engages in artivism.
- arvicole — a mouse or water vole that belongs to the genus Arvicola
- atavisms — Plural form of atavism.
- atavists — Biology. the reappearance in an individual of characteristics of some remote ancestor that have been absent in intervening generations. an individual embodying such a reversion.
- auditive — a person who learns primarily by listening
- availeth — Archaic third-person singular form of avail.
- availing — to be of use or value to; profit; advantage: All our efforts availed us little in trying to effect a change.
- avantist — short for avant-gardist
- avenging — taking vengeance on someone or something for a wrong done
- aventail — the movable front flap on a helmet
- aventine — one of the seven hills on which Rome was built
- averring — to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner.
- aversion — If you have an aversion to someone or something, you dislike them very much.
- aversity — The state or condition of being averse.
- aversive — tending to dissuade or repel
- averting — Present participle of avert.
- avianize — to modify microorganisms by repeated culturing in chicken embryos
- aviaries — Plural form of aviary.
- aviarist — a person who keeps an aviary
- aviating — Present participle of aviate.
- aviation — Aviation is the operation and production of aircraft.
- aviators — Plural form of aviator.
- aviatrix — a female aviator
- avicenna — Arabic name ibn-Sina. 980–1037, Arab philosopher and physician whose philosophical writings, which combined Aristotelianism with neo-Platonist ideas, greatly influenced scholasticism, and whose medical work Qanun was the greatest single influence on medieval medicine
- avicular — of or relating to small birds
- avidness — a desire to advance; eagerness
- aviemore — a winter sports resort in Scotland, in Moray between the Monadhliath and Cairngorm Mountains. Pop: 2397 (2001)
- avifauna — all the birds in a particular region
- avigator — aerial navigation.
- avionics — Avionics is the science of electronics used in aviation.
- avoidant — (of behaviour) demonstrating a tendency to avoid intimacy or interaction with others
- avoiders — Plural form of avoider.
- avoiding — Present participle of avoid.
- avoision — the non-payment of tax which cannot be classified as either avoidance or evasion
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- biovular — (of twins) from two separate eggs
- bivalent — (of homologous chromosomes) associated together in pairs
- bloviate — to talk at length, esp in an insubstantial but inflated manner