8-letter words containing c, r, e, v
- perceive — to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses: I perceived an object looming through the mist.
- perceval — Spencer, 1762–1812, British statesman: prime minister 1809–12.
- percival — Also, Perceval, Percivale. Arthurian Romance. a knight of King Arthur's court who sought the Holy Grail: comparable to Parzival or Parsifal in Teutonic legend.
- precaval — See under vena cava.
- proclive — having an inclination towards an action; prone
- provence — a region in SE France, bordering on the Mediterranean: formerly a province; famous for medieval poetry and courtly traditions.
- province — an administrative division or unit of a country.
- re-cover — to cover again or anew.
- reactive — tending to react.
- receival — the act of receiving or state of being received; receipt
- received — generally or traditionally accepted; conventional; standard: a received moral idea.
- receiver — a person or thing that receives.
- receives — to take into one's possession (something offered or delivered): to receive many gifts.
- reconvey — to convey again.
- recovery — an act of recovering.
- recurved — curved upward, as the bill of a bird.
- revanche — the policy of a state intent on regaining areas of its original territory that have been lost to other states as a result of war, a treaty signed under duress, etc.
- rickover — Hyman George, 1900–86, U.S. naval officer, born in Poland: helped to develop the nuclear submarine.
- scavager — a person whose responsibility is to ensure the streets are kept clean
- screever — an artist who draws pictures on sidewalks, as with colored chalks, earning a living from the donations of spectators and passersby.
- servicer — someone who services
- services — a service tree, especially Sorbus domestica.
- subcover — a set of subsets of a cover of a given set that also is a cover of the set.
- tractive — having or exerting traction; drawing.
- uncarved — (of food) not carved or carved up
- unclever — mentally bright; having sharp or quick intelligence; able.
- uncurved — not curved
- vacherin — a soft French or Swiss cheese made from cows' milk
- vambrace — a piece of plate armor for the forearm; a lower cannon. Compare rerebrace.
- variance — the state, quality, or fact of being variable, divergent, different, or anomalous.
- variceal — of or relating to a varix
- varicose — abnormally or unusually enlarged or swollen: a varicose vein.
- vector c — (language) A variant of C from CMU(?), similar to ACTUS.
- veracity — habitual observance of truth in speech or statement; truthfulness: He was not noted for his veracity.
- veracruz — a state in E Mexico, on the Gulf of Mexico. 27,759 sq. mi. (71,895 sq. km). Capital: Jalapa.
- vercelli — a city in NW Italy, W of Milan.
- verdancy — green with vegetation; covered with growing plants or grass: a verdant oasis.
- verecund — bashful; modest.
- vergence — the turning motion of the eyeballs toward or away from each other. Compare convergence (def 4), divergence (def 3).
- vergency — an inclination or tendency; the act of verging or approaching
- veristic — the theory that rigid representation of truth and reality is essential to art and literature, and therefore the ugly and vulgar must be included.
- verjuice — an acid liquor made from the sour juice of crab apples, unripe grapes, etc., formerly much used for culinary and other purposes.
- vernicle — veronica1 .
- veronica — a female given name.
- verrucae — Medicine/Medical. a wart.
- versicle — a little verse.
- vertical — being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
- vertices — a plural of vertex.
- verticil — a whorl or circle, as of leaves or hairs, arranged around a point on an axis.
- vibrance — moving to and fro rapidly; vibrating.