8-letter words containing v, e, n, l
- heavenly — of or in the heavens: the heavenly bodies.
- hov lane — a highway or street lane for high-occupancy vehicles, usually marked with large diamond shapes on the pavement.
- interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
- inveigle — to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements (usually followed by into): to inveigle a person into playing bridge.
- inveiled — Simple past tense and past participle of inveil.
- inviable — (of an organism) incapable of sustaining its own life.
- invirile — unmanly
- involute — intricate; complex.
- involved — very intricate or complex: an involved reply.
- involver — Someone or something that involves.
- involves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of involve.
- javelina — See under peccary.
- javelins — Plural form of javelin.
- joinvile — a seaport in S Brazil.
- juvenile — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or suitable or intended for young persons: juvenile books.
- kvelling — to be extraordinarily pleased; especially, to be bursting with pride, as over one's family.
- la verne — a town in S California.
- laevulin — a polysaccharide occurring in the tubers of certain helianthus plants
- lake van — a salt lake in E Turkey, at an altitude of 1650 m (5400 ft): fed by melting snow and glaciers. Area: 3737 sq km (1433 sq miles)
- lavement — A washing or bathing.
- lavender — a pale bluish purple.
- leavened — Simple past tense and past participle of leaven.
- leavings — something that is left; residue.
- lenitive — softening, soothing, or mitigating, as medicines or applications.
- 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.
- leveeing — Present participle of levee.
- leveling — having no part higher than another; having a flat or even surface.
- 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).
- lhevinne — Josef [joh-zuh f] /ˈdʒoʊ zəf/ (Show IPA), 1874–1944, Russian pianist.
- live one — being alive; living; alive: live animals.
- lived-in — to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions: all things that live.
- livelong — (of time) whole or entire, especially when tediously long, slow in passing, etc.: We picked apples the livelong day.
- liven up — make more lively
- liveness — being alive; living; alive: live animals.
- livening — Present participle of liven.
- livering — Anatomy. a large, reddish-brown, glandular organ located in the upper right side of the abdominal cavity, divided by fissures into five lobes and functioning in the secretion of bile and various metabolic processes.
- longeval — Long-lived; longevous.
- longview — a city in NE Texas.
- longwave — (of radio waves) Having a wavelength of greater than 1000 meters.
- loveland — a city in N Colorado.
- lovelorn — being without love; forsaken by one's lover.
- loveness — Love.
- lovesong — Alternative spelling of love song.
- lovevine — a leafless parasitic vine of the genus Cuscuta
- malenkov — Georgi Maximilianovich [gyi-awr-gyee muh-ksyi-myi-lyah-nuh-vyich] /gyɪˈɔr gyi mə ksyɪ myɪˈlyɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1902–88, Russian political leader: premier of the Soviet Union 1953–55.
- manville — a borough in N central New Jersey.
- natively — being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one's native land.
- nervelet — a small, delicate nerve