8-letter words containing r, v
- cab-over — a truck tractor or other vehicle in which the cab is located over the engine.
- cadavers — Plural form of cadaver.
- calvaria — the top part of the skull of vertebrates
- canvaser — Alt form canvasser.
- caravans — Plural form of caravan.
- caravels — Plural form of caravel.
- caritive — (in certain inflected languages, especially of the Caucasian group) abessive.
- carnival — A carnival is a public festival during which people play music and sometimes dance in the streets.
- carve up — If you say that someone carves something up, you disapprove of the way they have divided it into small parts.
- carveout — A small company created from a larger one.
- carvings — Plural form of carving.
- cavalero — a gentleman or cavalier
- cavalier — If you describe a person or their behaviour as cavalier, you are criticizing them because you think that they do not consider other people's feelings or take account of the seriousness of a situation.
- cave art — paintings and engravings on the walls of caves and rock-shelters, especially naturalistic depictions of animals, produced by Upper Paleolithic peoples of western Europe between about 28,000 and 10,000 years ago.
- caveator — a person who enters a caveat
- caverned — (poetic) Pitted or hollowed out with caverns.
- cavicorn — (of sheep, goats, etc) having hollow horns as distinct from the solid antlers of deer
- caviller — to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily (usually followed by at or about): He finds something to cavil at in everything I say.
- cavitary — having or containing cavities
- cavorted — Simple past tense and past participle of cavort.
- cd drive — a device that plays CDs
- cerenkov — Pavel A [pah-vuh l;; Russian pah-vyil] /ˈpɑ vəl;; Russian ˈpɑ vyɪl/ (Show IPA), 1904–1990, Russian physicist: Nobel Prize 1958.
- cervelas — a French garlic sausage
- cervelat — a smoked sausage made from pork and beef
- cervezas — beer.
- cervical — Cervical means relating to the cervix.
- cervices — cervix
- cervico- — cervical
- cervicum — the flexible region between the prothorax and head in insects
- charvaka — Lokayatika.
- chavurah — havurah.
- cheverel — a type of leather made from kidskin or goatskin
- cheveret — a small English table of the 18th century, having an oblong top, one or two rows of drawers, and slender legs joined near the bottom by a shelf.
- chevrons — Plural form of chevron.
- chevrony — showing or displaying chevrons
- chivalry — Chivalry is polite, kind, and unselfish behaviour, especially by men towards women.
- chivaree — shivaree.
- claviers — Plural form of clavier.
- claviger — a key- or club-bearer
- cleavers — a Eurasian rubiaceous plant, Galium aparine, having small white flowers and prickly stems and fruits
- cleverer — mentally bright; having sharp or quick intelligence; able.
- cleverly — mentally bright; having sharp or quick intelligence; able.
- clovered — covered with clover
- co-drive — to take alternate turns driving (a vehicle) with another person
- 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.
- combover — Hair that is combed over a bald spot in an attempt to cover it.
- comeover — a person who has come from Britain to settle in the Isle of Man; used by people native to the island, often pejoratively about someone with a complaining or arrogant attitude
- conferva — any of various threadlike green algae, esp any of the genus Tribonema, typically occurring in fresh water