8-letter words containing r, v
- congreve — William. 1670–1729, English dramatist, a major exponent of Restoration comedy; author of Love for Love (1695) and The Way of the World (1700)
- conniver — to cooperate secretly; conspire (often followed by with): They connived to take over the business.
- conserve — If you conserve a supply of something, you use it carefully so that it lasts for a long time.
- contrive — If you contrive an event or situation, you succeed in making it happen, often by tricking someone.
- convener — a person who convenes or chairs a meeting, committee, etc, esp one who is specifically elected to do so
- convenor — A convenor is a trade union official who organizes the union representatives at a particular factory.
- 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.
- conveyer — A conveyer is a device for moving large amounts of a solid.
- conveyor — a person or thing that conveys
- cordovan — a fine leather now made principally from horsehide, isolated from the skin layers above and below it and tanned
- corrival — rival
- 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)
- 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.
- cravable — (especially of a food) having qualities that engender an intense desire for more: All too often, salt, sugar, fat, and “crunch” make a food craveable.
- cravened — Simple past tense and past participle of craven.
- cravenly — In a craven manner.
- cravings — great or eager desire; yearning.
- creative — A creative person has the ability to invent and develop original ideas, especially in the arts.
- crescive — increasing; growing
- crevalle — a silver coloured fish, Caranx hippos of the Carangidae or jack family native to western Atlantic areas
- crevasse — A crevasse is a large, deep crack in thick ice or rock.
- crevette — a shrimp or prawn, esp when served in its shell
- creviced — Having a crevice or crevices.
- crevices — Plural form of crevice.
- crevises — Plural form of crevis.
- cultivar — a variety of a plant that was produced from a natural species and is maintained by cultivation
- culverin — a long-range medium to heavy cannon used during the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries
- culverts — Plural form of culvert.
- curative — Something that has curative properties can cure people's illnesses.
- cursives — Plural form of cursive.
- curveted — Simple past tense and past participle of curvet.
- curvette — cuvette (def 1).
- curvital — of or relating to curvature, esp in geometry
- czarevna — the daughter of a czar of Russia
- daventry — a town in central England, in Northamptonshire: light industries, site of an important international radio transmitter. Pop: 21 731 (2001)
- de vries — Hugo (ˈhyːxoː). 1848–1935, Dutch botanist, who rediscovered Mendel's laws and developed the mutation theory of evolution