9-letter words containing e, a, v
- caveators — a person who files or enters a caveat.
- cavendish — tobacco that has been sweetened and pressed into moulds to form bars
- cavernous — A cavernous room or building is very large inside, and so it reminds you of a cave.
- cavessons — Plural form of cavesson.
- cavewoman — A prehistoric woman who lived in caves.
- cavewomen — Plural form of cavewoman.
- cavitated — Simple past tense and past participle of cavitate.
- cervantes — Miguel de (miˈɣɛl ðe), full surname Cervantes Saavedra. 1547–1616, Spanish dramatist, poet, and prose writer, most famous for Don Quixote (1605), which satirizes the chivalric romances and greatly influenced the development of the novel
- cessative — (of a verbal form or aspect) expressing cessation.
- cevapcici — a small rolled patty of ground meat, usually beef, seasoned with paprika and garlic, popular in Eastern Europe
- champleve — of or relating to a process of enamelling by which grooves are cut into a metal base and filled with enamel colours
- charles v — known as Charles the Wise. 1337–80, king of France (1364–80) during the Hundred Years' War
- charvette — (Geordie, pejorative) A female charva.
- chavannes — Puvis de [py-vee duh] /püˈvi də/ (Show IPA), Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre.
- cheesevat — (in cheese making) a vat in which curds are formed and cut
- chevalier — a member of certain orders of merit, such as the French Legion of Honour
- ci-devant — (esp of an office-holder) former; recent
- civet cat — any of several nocturnal, catlike carnivores (family Viverridae) of Africa, India, Malaysia, and S China, with spotted, yellowish fur: valued for its civet (sense 1)
- civitates — the body of citizens who constitute a state, especially a city-state, commonwealth, or the like.
- clavering — Present participle of claver.
- clavicles — Plural form of clavicle.
- cleavable — capable of being cleft or split.
- cleavaged — Having (a particular kind of) cleavage.
- cleavages — the act of cleaving or splitting.
- cleveland — a former county of NE England formed in 1974 from parts of E Durham and N Yorkshire; replaced in 1996 by the unitary authorities of Hartlepool (Durham), Stockton-on-Tees (Durham), Middlesbrough (North Yorkshire) and Redcar and Cleveland (North Yorkshire)
- coevality — The condition of being coeval.
- cold wave — a sudden spell of low temperatures over a wide area, often following the passage of a cold front
- collative — involving collation
- combative — A person who is combative is aggressive and eager to fight or argue.
- conclaves — A private meeting.
- confervae — Plural form of conferva.
- convocate — to summon or call together
- corrasive — Obsolete form of corrosive.
- covalence — the number of pairs of electrons that an atom can share with its neighboring atoms
- covalency — the formation and nature of covalent bonds
- covariate — a statistical variable that changes in a predictable way and can be used to predict the outcome of a study
- covenants — Plural form of covenant.
- coverable — Able to be covered.
- coverages — Plural form of coverage.
- coveralls — Coveralls are a single piece of clothing that combines pants and a jacket. You wear coveralls over your clothes in order to protect them while you are working.
- coverdale — Miles. 1488–1568, the first translator of the complete Bible into English (1535)
- covetable — to desire wrongfully, inordinately, or without due regard for the rights of others: to covet another's property.
- craveable — (especially of a food) having qualities that engender an intense desire for more: All too often, salt, sugar, fat, and “crunch” make a food craveable.
- cravening — Present participle of craven.
- creamwove — (of wove paper) cream-coloured and even-surfaced
- creatives — Plural form of creative.
- crevassed — containing deep cracks or fissures
- crevasses — Plural form of crevasse.
- crimewave — a period of increased criminal activity
- cultivate — If you cultivate land or crops, you prepare land and grow crops on it.