7-letter words containing av
- avowing — Present participle of avow.
- avulsed — Simple past tense and past participle of avulse.
- baklava — a rich cake of Middle Eastern origin consisting of thin layers of pastry filled with nuts and honey
- barnave — Antoine Pierre. 1761–93, French revolutionary. A prominent member of the National Assembly, he was executed for his royalist sympathies
- batavia — an ancient district of the Netherlands, on an island at the mouth of the Rhine
- bavaria — a state of S Germany: a former duchy and kingdom; mainly wooded highland, with the Alps in the south. Capital: Munich. Pop: 12 155 000 (2000 est). Area: 70 531 sq km (27 232 sq miles)
- be-have — to act in a particular way; conduct or comport oneself or itself: The ship behaves well.
- beavers — Plural form of beaver.
- beavery — a place in which beavers may be kept
- behaved — to act in a particular way; conduct or comport oneself or itself: The ship behaves well.
- behaver — something or someone who behaves
- beknave — to treat as a knave
- bereave — to deprive (of) something or someone valued, esp through death
- beslave — to treat as a slave
- bravado — Bravado is an appearance of courage or confidence that someone shows in order to impress other people.
- bravely — possessing or exhibiting courage or courageous endurance.
- bravery — Bravery is brave behaviour or the quality of being brave.
- bravest — possessing or exhibiting courage or courageous endurance.
- braving — possessing or exhibiting courage or courageous endurance.
- bravura — If you say that someone is doing something with bravura, you mean that they are using unnecessary extra actions that emphasize their skill or importance.
- bravure — Music. a florid passage or piece requiring great skill and spirit in the performer.
- cadaver — A cadaver is a dead body.
- caraval — Obsolete spelling of caravel.
- caravan — A caravan is a vehicle without an engine that can be pulled by a car or van. It contains beds and cooking equipment so that people can live or spend their holidays in it.
- caravel — a two- or three-masted sailing ship, esp one with a broad beam, high poop deck, and lateen rig that was used by the Spanish and Portuguese in the 15th and 16th centuries
- cassava — Cassava is a South American plant with thick roots. It is grown for food.
- cavalla — any of various tropical carangid fishes, such as Gnathanodon speciosus (golden cavalla)
- cavally — Caranx hippos, a carangoid fish of the Atlantic coast.
- cavalry — The cavalry is the part of an army that uses armoured vehicles for fighting.
- 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
- cavorts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cavort.
- 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
- chavian — of or relating to chavs
- chavish — a person who wears fashionable brands, flashy jewelry, etc., but is regarded as having bad or lower-class taste.
- clavate — shaped like a club with the thicker end uppermost
- clavers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of claver.
- clavier — any keyboard instrument
- clavius — one of the largest of the craters on the moon, about 230 kilometres (145 miles) in diameter, whose walls have peaks up to 5700 metres (19 000 feet) above the floor. It lies in the SE quadrant
- clavola — the terminal, enlarged, usually club-shaped portion of a capitate, lamellate, or clavate antenna.
- cleaved — Cleft or cloven.
- cleaver — A cleaver is a knife with a large square blade, used for chopping meat or vegetables.