Lava is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 25 anagrams from letters in lava (aalv).
1740-50; Italian, orig. Neapolitan dialect: avalanche Latin lābēs a sliding down, falling, akin to lābī to slide
In a circle about it stood the dark buttress of the lava sides.
So he turned to craftsmen living at the foot of Mt. Vesuvius who had pioneered a technique for working with lava stone.
lava and ash fell for days; the sun was obliterated for three months.
The year 1800 saw the last of it on the lava law-rock of Thingvellir.
Communal distrust, in India, is lava always simmering beneath the skin.
No longer would they have crazy adventures like campus-wide paintball and lava matches.
I covered my face with my hat and rushed across the stream of lava.
They have all been at work like her, spouting ashes and pumice and rocks and lava.
He tickled the dun with his spurs and trotted along the crest of the lava ridge.
They were paid $50 to play a tiny Los Angeles speakeasy called The lava Lounge—now The Woods.