9-letter words containing o, v, e
- bloc-vote — to vote in or as a bloc: Party conservatives can be counted on to bloc-vote.
- blow over — If something such as trouble or an argument blows over, it ends without any serious consequences.
- body wave — Geology. a transverse or longitudinal earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth (distinguished from surface wave).
- boil over — When a liquid that is being heated boils over, it rises and flows over the edge of the container.
- boil-over — an unexpected result.
- bolshevik — Bolshevik is used to describe the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
- bondslave — a person held in bondage.
- booklover — a person who enjoys reading books.
- boulevard — A boulevard is a wide street in a city, usually with trees along each side.
- bowl over — To bowl someone over means to push into them and make them fall to the ground.
- breakover — jump (def 51).
- calf love — temporary infatuation or love of an adolescent for a member of the opposite sex
- call-over — a preliminary hearing
- camp oven — a metal pot or box with a heavy lid, used for baking over an open fire
- card vote — a vote by delegates, esp at a trade-union conference, in which each delegate's vote counts as a vote by all his or her constituents
- carnivore — A carnivore is an animal that eats meat.
- carryover — If something is a carryover from an earlier time, it began during an earlier time but still exists or happens now.
- carve out — to make or create (a career)
- carve-out — to cut (a solid material) so as to form something: to carve a piece of pine.
- caveators — a person who files or enters a caveat.
- 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.
- cherenkov — Pavel Alekseyevich (ˈpavɪl alɪkˈsjejɪvitʃ). 1904–90, Soviet physicist: noted for work on the effects produced by high-energy particles: shared Nobel prize for physics 1958
- chernigov — a city in N central Ukraine, on the River Desna: tyres, pianos, consumer goods. Pop: 308 000 (2005 est)
- chevronel — a narrow chevron, one-half the usual breadth or less.
- chew over — If you chew something over, you keep thinking about it.
- clove oil — a volatile pale-yellow aromatic oil obtained from clove flowers, formerly much used in confectionery, dentistry, and microscopy
- co-driver — one of two drivers who take turns to drive a car, esp in a rally
- codevelop — to develop jointly
- coevality — The condition of being coeval.
- coevolved — Simple past tense and past participle of coevolve.
- cognitive — Cognitive means relating to the mental process involved in knowing, learning, and understanding things.
- coke oven — an oven in which coal is converted into coke
- cold wave — a sudden spell of low temperatures over a wide area, often following the passage of a cold front
- colectivo — a small public bus.
- collative — involving collation
- collisive — (obsolete) Colliding; clashing.
- collusive — Collusive behaviour involves secret or illegal co-operation, especially between countries or organizations.
- colluvies — a collection of filth or discharge
- com. ver. — Common Version (of the Bible)
- comb-over — a hairstyle in which long strands of hair from the side of the head are swept over the scalp to cover a bald patch
- combative — A person who is combative is aggressive and eager to fight or argue.
- combovers — Plural form of combover.
- come over — If a feeling or desire, especially a strange or surprising one, comes over you, it affects you strongly.
- commotive — violent or tumultuous motion; agitation; noisy disturbance: What's all the commotion in the hallway?
- commutive — (linguistics) That which serves to commute.
- conceived — to form (a notion, opinion, purpose, etc.): He conceived the project while he was on vacation.
- conceiver — to form (a notion, opinion, purpose, etc.): He conceived the project while he was on vacation.