9-letter words containing r, v
- cavaliers — Plural form of cavalier.
- cavalries — Plural form of cavalry.
- cave bear — an extinct bear, Ursus spelaeus, that lived in caves in Europe during the Pleistocene Epoch.
- 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.
- cavorting — to prance or caper about.
- centumvir — one of a body of judges responsible for presiding over civil court cases
- cervantes — Miguel de (miˈɣɛl ðe), full surname Cervantes Saavedra. 1547–1616, Spanish dramatist, poet, and prose writer, most famous for Don Quixote (1605), which satirizes the chivalric romances and greatly influenced the development of the novel
- charivari — a discordant mock serenade to newlyweds, made with pans, kettles, etc
- charles v — known as Charles the Wise. 1337–80, king of France (1364–80) during the Hundred Years' War
- charvette — (Geordie, pejorative) A female charva.
- 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)
- chevalier — a member of certain orders of merit, such as the French Legion of Honour
- chevelure — the hazy or misty luminescence encircling a comet or star
- chevrette — the skin of a young goat
- chevronel — a narrow chevron, one-half the usual breadth or less.
- chew over — If you chew something over, you keep thinking about it.
- chivalric — Chivalric means relating to or connected with the system of chivalry that was believed in and followed by medieval knights.
- civil war — A civil war is a war which is fought between different groups of people who live in the same country.
- civiliser — Alternative form of civilizer.
- civilizer — to bring out of a savage, uneducated, or rude state; make civil; elevate in social and private life; enlighten; refine: Rome civilized the barbarians.
- clavering — Present participle of claver.
- clavicorn — any beetle of the group Clavicornia, including the ladybirds, characterized by club-shaped antennae
- claviform — clavate
- cleverest — mentally bright; having sharp or quick intelligence; able.
- cleverish — Somewhat clever.
- co-driver — one of two drivers who take turns to drive a car, esp in a rally
- 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
- 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.
- conceiver — to form (a notion, opinion, purpose, etc.): He conceived the project while he was on vacation.
- confervae — Plural form of conferva.
- connivers — to cooperate secretly; conspire (often followed by with): They connived to take over the business.
- connivery — the act of conniving
- conrad iv — 1228–54, king of Germany 1237–54 and Sicily 1251–54; uncrowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (son of Frederick II).
- conserved — Simple past tense and past participle of conserve.
- conserver — One who conserves.
- conserves — Plural form of conserve.
- contrived — If you say that something someone says or does is contrived, you think it is false and deliberate, rather than natural and not planned.
- contriver — to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot.
- contrives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contrive.
- convector — a space-heating device from which heat is transferred to the surrounding air by convection
- conveners — Plural form of convener.
- convenors — Plural form of convenor.
- converged — Simple past tense and past participle of converge.
- converges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of converge.
- conversed — to talk informally with another or others; exchange views, opinions, etc., by talking.
- converser — One who converses.