8-letter words containing e, v, o, c
- converge — If people or vehicles converge on a place, they move towards it from different directions.
- converse — If you converse with someone, you talk to them. You can also say that two people converse.
- converso — a medieval Spanish Jew who converted to Catholicism, usually in order to avoid persecution from either the Spanish Inquisition or the Portugese Inquisition
- converts — Plural form of convert.
- convexed — Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form.
- convexly — having a surface that is curved or rounded outward. Compare concave (def 1).
- conveyal — the act or means of conveying
- conveyed — to carry, bring, or take from one place to another; transport; bear.
- conveyer — A conveyer is a device for moving large amounts of a solid.
- conveyor — a person or thing that conveys
- 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.
- convoked — Simple past tense and past participle of convoke.
- convolve — to wind or roll together; coil; twist
- convoyed — Simple past tense and past participle of convoy.
- convulse — If someone convulses or if they are convulsed by or with something, their body moves suddenly in an uncontrolled way.
- cooptive — to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- corvette — A corvette is a small fast warship that is used to protect other ships from attack.
- cosgrave — Liam (ˈliːəm). born 1920, Irish statesman; prime minister of the Republic of Ireland (1973–77)
- 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.
- cunjevoi — an aroid plant, Alocasia macrorrhiza, of tropical Asia and Australia, cultivated for its edible rhizome
- devoiced — having been made voiceless
- devorced — Simple past tense and past participle of devorce.
- discover — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
- divorced — Cut off, or separated.
- divorcee — a divorced woman.
- divorces — Plural form of divorce.
- dovecote — a structure, usually at a height above the ground, for housing domestic pigeons.
- evection — (astronomy) Modification of the lunar orbit due to the gravitational effects of the Sun.
- eviction — The action of expelling someone, especially a tenant, from a property; expulsion.
- evocable — That can be evoked.
- evocated — Simple past tense and past participle of evocate.