9-letter words containing c, a, v, o, r
- lochinvar — the hero of a ballad included in the narrative poem Marmion (1808) by Sir Walter Scott.
- lovecraft — H(oward) P(hillips) 1890–1937, U.S. horror-story writer.
- microwave — an electromagnetic wave of extremely high frequency, 1 GH 3 or more, and having wavelengths of from 1 mm to 30 cm.
- over-care — a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern: He was never free from care.
- overacted — Simple past tense and past participle of overact.
- overactor — Someone who overacts.
- overacute — excessively acute
- overcarry — To carry too far, or beyond the proper point.
- overcasts — Plural form of overcast.
- overcatch — to overtake
- overcheap — too cheap
- overclaim — to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
- overclass — a social stratum consisting of educated and wealthy people considered to control the economic power of a country.
- overclean — too clean
- overclear — too clear
- overcoach — to coach too much
- overcoats — Plural form of overcoat.
- overexact — Too exact; overscrupulous; pedantic.
- overmatch — to be more than a match for; surpass; defeat: an assignment that clearly overmatched his abilities; an able task force that overmatched the enemy fleet.
- overreach — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
- overreact — to react or respond more strongly than is necessary or appropriate.
- oversauce — to put too much sauce on
- overscale — larger or more extensive than normal or usual; outsize; oversize.
- overteach — to teach too much
- overwatch — to watch over.
- patercove — a fraudulent priest
- privocrat — (esp in neo-conservative thought) a person who is not in favour of relinquishing individual freedoms in order to give the state more powers to combat terrorism
- proactive — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- provencal — of or relating to Provence, its people, or their language.
- provocant — a person who deliberately behaves controversially to provoke argument or other strong reactions
- revocable — that may be revoked.
- revocably — that may be revoked.
- rounceval — a variety of large pea
- slavocrat — (in the US before the Civil War) a slaveholder, or an advocate of slavery
- tovarisch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- vancouver — George, 1758–98, English explorer.
- vaporific — producing vapor; tending to form vapor.
- varicosis — the formation of a varix or varices.
- varifocal — having a focus that can vary
- vectorial — Mathematics. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of which is proportional to the magnitude. Compare scalar (def 4). such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities obey the parallelogram law of addition. such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities are to transform in a particular way under changes of the coordinate system. any generalization of the above quantities.
- veracious — habitually speaking the truth; truthful; honest: a veracious witness.
- vicarious — performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment.
- victorian — of or relating to Queen Victoria or the period of her reign: Victorian poets.
- virilocal — Anthropology. living with or located near the husband's father's group; patrilocal.
- vocabular — a vocabulary
- vocal fry — a voice quality characterized by a low pitch and raspy sound and produced by a slow fluttering of the vocal cords: There's too much vocal fry in her speaking voice.
- voracious — craving or consuming large quantities of food: a voracious appetite.