9-letter words containing c, o, v, e, t
- dovecotes — Plural form of dovecote.
- escovitch — Alternative form of escoveitch.
- evictions — Plural form of eviction.
- evocating — Present participle of evocate.
- evocation — The act of calling out or forth, or evoking.
- evocative — Bringing strong images, memories, or feelings to mind.
- evocatory — evocative
- excavator — A person who removes earth carefully and systematically from an archaeological site in order to find buried remains.
- invection — (obsolete) An inveighing against; invective.
- invocated — invoke.
- livestock — the horses, cattle, sheep, and other useful animals kept or raised on a farm or ranch.
- locatives — Plural form of locative.
- lovecraft — H(oward) P(hillips) 1890–1937, U.S. horror-story writer.
- mestrovic — Ivan [ahy-vuh n Serbo-Croatian. ee-vahn] /ˈaɪ vən Serbo-Croatian. ˈi vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1883–1962, Yugoslav sculptor, in the U.S. after 1946.
- muscovite — a native or inhabitant of Moscow.
- nonactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- nonvector — a quantity without size and direction
- noviciate — The period during which you are a novice.
- obclavate — inversely clavate.
- objective — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
- olfactive — Of or pertaining to the sense of smell; olfactory.
- out-voice — the sound or sounds uttered through the mouth of living creatures, especially of human beings in speaking, shouting, singing, etc.
- overacted — Simple past tense and past participle of overact.
- overactor — Someone who overacts.
- overacute — excessively acute
- overcasts — Plural form of overcast.
- overcatch — to overtake
- overcoats — Plural form of overcoat.
- overcount — To count more of something than are actually present, or to count one thing disproportionately more than another.
- 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.
- overpitch — to bowl (a ball) so that it pitches too close to the stumps
- overreact — to react or respond more strongly than is necessary or appropriate.
- overstock — to stock to excess: We are overstocked on this item.
- overteach — to teach too much
- overthick — too thick
- overtrick — a trick won by declarer in excess of the number of tricks necessary to make the contract.
- overwatch — to watch over.
- patercove — a fraudulent priest
- 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.
- reconvert — to convert again.
- reconvict — to convict (someone) again
- sociative — expressing accompaniment or association
- softcover — paperback edition of a book
- suboctave — an octave below another octave
- tick over — If an engine is ticking over, it is running at a low speed or rate, for example when it is switched on but you are not actually using it.
- uncoveted — to desire wrongfully, inordinately, or without due regard for the rights of others: to covet another's property.
- vacuolate — having a vacuole or vacuoles.
- vasectomy — excision of the vas deferens, or of a portion of it: performed to effect sterility in men.
- vaxectomy — (jargon) /vak-sek't*-mee/ (By analogy with "vasectomy") Removal of a VAX. DEC's Microvaxen, especially, are much slower than newer RISC-based workstations such as the SPARC. Thus, if one knows one has a replacement coming, VAX removal can be cause for celebration.