8-letter words containing e, v, i
- chivvies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chivvy.
- cistvaen — a pre-Christian stone coffin or burial chamber
- civilise — To educate or enlighten a person or people to a perceived higher standard of behaviour.
- civilize — To civilize a person or society means to educate them and improve their way of life.
- clavecin — a harpsichord
- clavicle — Your clavicles are your collar bones.
- claviers — Plural form of clavier.
- claviger — a key- or club-bearer
- clavinet — An electrophonic keyboard instrument, an electronically amplified clavichord with a distinctive bright staccato sound.
- cleaving — Present participle of cleave.
- cleveite — a crystalline variety of the mineral uranitite
- clevises — plural of clevis.
- cliveden — a mansion in Buckinghamshire, on the N bank of the Thames near Maidenhead: formerly the home of Nancy Astor and the scene of gatherings of politicians and others (known as the Cliveden Set); now a hotel
- 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.
- danville — city in S Va., near the N.C. border: pop. 48,000
- de vinne — Theodore Low, 1828–1914, U.S. printer.
- de vries — Hugo (ˈhyːxoː). 1848–1935, Dutch botanist, who rediscovered Mendel's laws and developed the mutation theory of evolution
- 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