8-letter words containing e, v, c
- could've — Could've is the usual spoken form of 'could have', when 'have' is an auxiliary verb.
- couvades — a practice among some peoples, as the Basques of Spain, in which a man, immediately preceding the birth of his child, takes to his bed in an enactment of the birth experience and subjects himself to various taboos usually associated with pregnancy.
- covalent — the number of electron pairs that an atom can share with other atoms.
- covenant — A covenant is a formal written agreement between two or more people or groups of people which is recognized in law.
- coventry — a city in central England, in Coventry unitary authority, West Midlands: devastated in World War II; modern cathedral (1954–62); industrial centre, esp for motor vehicles; two universities (1965, 1992). Pop: 303 475 (2001)
- cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
- cover-up — any action, stratagem, or other means of concealing or preventing investigation or exposure.
- coverage — The coverage of something in the news is the reporting of it.
- coverall — a thing that covers something entirely
- covereth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cover.
- covering — A covering is a layer of something that protects or hides something else.
- coverlet — A coverlet is the same as a bedspread.
- coverley — Sir Roger de, a literary figure representing the ideal of the early 18th-century squire in The Spectator, by Addison and Steele.
- coverlid — coverlet
- covertly — concealed; secret; disguised.
- coveteth — Archaic third-person singular form of covet.
- coveting — Present participle of covet.
- covetous — A covetous person has a strong desire to possess something, especially something that belongs to another person.
- coveying — Present participle of covey.
- cravable — (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.
- cravened — Simple past tense and past participle of craven.
- cravenly — In a craven manner.
- creative — A creative person has the ability to invent and develop original ideas, especially in the arts.
- crescive — increasing; growing
- crevalle — a silver coloured fish, Caranx hippos of the Carangidae or jack family native to western Atlantic areas
- crevasse — A crevasse is a large, deep crack in thick ice or rock.
- crevette — a shrimp or prawn, esp when served in its shell
- creviced — Having a crevice or crevices.
- crevices — Plural form of crevice.
- crevises — Plural form of crevis.
- cube van — a van with a cube-shaped storage compartment that is wider and taller than the front of the vehicle
- culverin — a long-range medium to heavy cannon used during the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries
- culverts — Plural form of culvert.
- 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.
- curveted — Simple past tense and past participle of curvet.
- curvette — cuvette (def 1).
- cuvettes — Plural form of cuvette.
- cuxhaven — a port in NW Germany, at the mouth of the River Elbe. Pop: 52 876 (2003 est)
- czarevna — the daughter of a czar of Russia
- 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.
- decurved — bent or curved downwards
- descrive — to describe
- devachan — The place where gods abide, the
- deviance — the act or state of being deviant