8-letter words containing c, i, v, e
- co-drive — to take alternate turns driving (a vehicle) with another person
- coactive — acting together.
- coderive — to derive jointly
- codriver — The navigator in the sport of rally racing, who sits in the front passenger seat and gives directions to the driver.
- coercive — Coercive measures are intended to force people to do something that they do not want to do.
- cohesive — Something that is cohesive consists of parts that fit together well and form a united whole.
- coinvent — to invent jointly
- conative — denoting an aspect of verbs in some languages used to indicate the effort of the agent in performing the activity described by the verb
- conceive — If you cannot conceive of something, you cannot imagine it or believe it.
- concieve — Misspelling of conceive.
- connived — Simple past tense and past participle of connive.
- conniver — to cooperate secretly; conspire (often followed by with): They connived to take over the business.
- connives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of connive.
- contrive — If you contrive an event or situation, you succeed in making it happen, often by tricking someone.
- convince — If someone or something convinces you of something, they make you believe that it is true or that it exists.
- convives — an eating or drinking companion; fellow diner or drinker.
- cooptive — to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- covering — A covering is a layer of something that protects or hides something else.
- coverlid — coverlet
- coveting — Present participle of covet.
- coveying — Present participle of covey.
- creative — A creative person has the ability to invent and develop original ideas, especially in the arts.
- crescive — increasing; growing
- creviced — Having a crevice or crevices.
- crevices — Plural form of crevice.
- crevises — Plural form of crevis.
- culverin — a long-range medium to heavy cannon used during the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries
- cunjevoi — an aroid plant, Alocasia macrorrhiza, of tropical Asia and Australia, cultivated for its edible rhizome
- curative — Something that has curative properties can cure people's illnesses.
- cursives — Plural form of cursive.
- deceived — (of a person) Cause (someone) to believe something that is not true, typically in order to gain some personal advantage.
- deceiver — to mislead by a false appearance or statement; delude: They deceived the enemy by disguising the destroyer as a freighter.
- deceives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deceive.
- decemvir — (in ancient Rome) a member of a board of ten magistrates, esp either of the two commissions established in 451 and 450 bc to revise the laws
- decisive — If a fact, action, or event is decisive, it makes it certain that there will be a particular result.
- descrive — to describe
- deviance — the act or state of being deviant
- deviancy — deviant quality or state.
- devoiced — having been made voiceless
- discover — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
- divorced — Cut off, or separated.
- divorcee — a divorced woman.
- divorces — Plural form of divorce.
- eductive — educing; serving to educe.
- ejective — Denoting a type of consonant in some languages, e.g., Hausa, produced by sudden release of pressure from the glottis.
- elective — Related to or working by means of election.
- enactive — Having power to enact or establish as a law.
- erective — Making erect or upright; raising.
- eric xiv — 1533–77, king of Sweden (1560–68). His attempts to dominate the Baltic led to war with Denmark (1563–70); deposed and imprisoned
- evection — (astronomy) Modification of the lunar orbit due to the gravitational effects of the Sun.