8-letter words containing i, n, v
- 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
- cognovit — a defendant's confession that the case against him or her is just
- 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.
- convicts — Plural form of convict.
- convince — If someone or something convinces you of something, they make you believe that it is true or that it exists.
- convival — (obsolete) Relating to a feast or festivity; convivial.
- convives — an eating or drinking companion; fellow diner or drinker.
- covering — A covering is a layer of something that protects or hides something else.
- coveting — Present participle of covet.
- coveying — Present participle of covey.
- covinous — deceitful; fraudulent; collusive
- cravings — great or eager desire; yearning.
- 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
- da vinci — ˌLeo‧ˈnardo (ˌliəˈnɑrdoʊ ) ; lēˌənärˈdō) ; Italian ˌ lɛɔˈnɑʀdɔ) ; Italian leˌ^ōnärˈd^ō) 1452-1519; It. painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, & scientist
- danilova — Alexandra [al-ig-zan-druh,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-druh] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn drə,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə/ (Show IPA), 1904?–97, Russian ballet dancer.
- danville — city in S Va., near the N.C. border: pop. 48,000
- davidson — Jo(seph)1883-1952; U.S. sculptor
- davisson — Clinton Joseph. 1881–1958, US physicist, noted for his discovery of electron diffraction; shared the Nobel prize for physics in 1937
- de vinne — Theodore Low, 1828–1914, U.S. printer.
- denotive — used or serving to denote; denotative.
- deriving — to receive or obtain from a source or origin (usually followed by from).
- deveined — Having had veins removed from.
- deviance — the act or state of being deviant
- deviancy — deviant quality or state.
- deviants — Plural form of deviant.
- deviling — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- devilkin — a small devil; a devil inferior to 'the' devil
- devising — to contrive, plan, or elaborate; invent from existing principles or ideas: to devise a method.
- devision — Obsolete spelling of division.
- devonian — of, denoting, or formed in the fourth period of the Palaeozoic era, between the Silurian and Carboniferous periods, lasting 60-70 million years during which amphibians first appeared
- devoting — to give up or appropriate to or concentrate on a particular pursuit, occupation, purpose, cause, etc.: to devote one's time to reading.
- devotion — Devotion is great love, affection, or admiration for someone.
- diluvian — pertaining to or caused by a flood or deluge.
- diluvion — a coarse surficial deposit formerly attributed to a general deluge but now regarded as glacial drift.
- divalent — having a valence of two, as the ferrous ion, Fe ++ .
- dividant — (obsolete) different; distinct.
- dividend — Mathematics. a number that is to be divided by a divisor.
- divident — (obsolete) dividend; share.
- dividing — Serving to divide or separate.
- divinely — of or relating to a god, especially the Supreme Being.
- diviners — Plural form of diviner.
- divinest — of or relating to a god, especially the Supreme Being.