8-letter words containing t, c, v
- overacts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overact.
- overcast — overspread or covered with clouds; cloudy: an overcast day.
- overcoat — a short story (1842) by Gogol.
- postcava — See under vena cava.
- reactive — tending to react.
- silvatic — of or relating to the forest; sylvan
- sovietic — relating to the Soviet Union
- sylvatic — sylvan.
- tchekhov — Anton Pavlovich [an-ton pav-loh-vich;; Russian uhn-tawn puh-vlaw-vyich] /ˈæn tɒn pævˈloʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian ʌnˈtɔn pʌˈvlɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1860–1904, Russian short-story writer and dramatist.
- tovarich — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- tractive — having or exerting traction; drawing.
- unactive — inactive, listless, or idle
- vacantly — having no contents; empty; void: a vacant niche.
- vacating — to give up possession or occupancy of: to vacate an apartment.
- vacation — a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday: Schoolchildren are on vacation now.
- varactor — a semiconductor diode whose capacitance changes to match applied voltage, used to tune circuits by varying the reactance.
- vaticide — a person who murders a prophet.
- vbscript — Visual BASIC Script
- vector c — (language) A variant of C from CMU(?), similar to ACTUS.
- velocity — rapidity of motion or operation; swiftness; speed: a high wind velocity.
- veracity — habitual observance of truth in speech or statement; truthfulness: He was not noted for his veracity.
- veristic — the theory that rigid representation of truth and reality is essential to art and literature, and therefore the ugly and vulgar must be included.
- vertical — being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
- vertices — a plural of vertex.
- verticil — a whorl or circle, as of leaves or hairs, arranged around a point on an axis.
- vesicant — producing a blister or blisters, as a medicinal substance; vesicating.
- vesicate — to raise vesicles or blisters on; blister.
- viatical — of or relating to a viaticum.
- viaticum — Ecclesiastical. the Eucharist or Communion as given to a person dying or in danger of death.
- vicarate — vicariate.
- vichyite — a member or adherent of the government established 1940 at Vichy by Marshal Henri Pétain.
- vicinity — the area or region near or about a place; surrounding district; neighborhood: There are no stores in the vicinity of our house.
- victoire — a female given name, French form of Victoria.
- victor i — Saint, pope a.d. 189–198.
- victoria — a province in W Canada on the Pacific coast. 366,255 sq. mi. (948,600 sq. km). Capital: Victoria.
- victorio — 1809?–80, leader of the Chiricahua Apache tribe.
- victress — a woman who is victorious.
- victrola — a gramophone
- victuals — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- vietcong — a Communist-led army and guerrilla force in South Vietnam that fought its government and was supported by North Vietnam.
- villatic — of or relating to the country or to a farm; rural.
- visconti — an Italian family that ruled Milan and Lombardy from 1277 to 1447.
- viscount — a nobleman next below an earl or count and next above a baron.
- viticide — a vine killer
- vivacity — the quality or state of being vivacious.
- vivisect — to dissect the living body of (an animal).
- vocalist — a singer.
- vocality — of, relating to, or uttered with the voice: the vocal mechanism; vocal criticism.
- vocation — a particular occupation, business, or profession; calling.
- vocative — Grammar. (in certain inflected languages, as Latin) noting or pertaining to a case used to indicate that a noun refers to a person or thing being addressed.