8-letter words containing v, a, r
- 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.
- cervelas — a French garlic sausage
- cervelat — a smoked sausage made from pork and beef
- cervezas — beer.
- cervical — Cervical means relating to the cervix.
- charvaka — Lokayatika.
- chavurah — havurah.
- 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
- conferva — any of various threadlike green algae, esp any of the genus Tribonema, typically occurring in fresh water
- cordovan — a fine leather now made principally from horsehide, isolated from the skin layers above and below it and tanned
- corrival — rival
- cosgrave — Liam (ˈliːəm). born 1920, Irish statesman; prime minister of the Republic of Ireland (1973–77)
- coverage — The coverage of something in the news is the reporting of it.
- coverall — a thing that covers something entirely
- 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.
- 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.
- cultivar — a variety of a plant that was produced from a natural species and is maintained by cultivation
- curative — Something that has curative properties can cure people's illnesses.
- 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)
- depraved — Depraved actions, things, or people are morally bad or evil.
- depraver — One who depraves or corrupts.
- depraves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deprave.
- deprival — to remove or withhold something from the enjoyment or possession of (a person or persons): to deprive a man of life; to deprive a baby of candy.
- derivate — derived
- devaluer — One who, or that which, devalues.
- deverbal — (of a noun or adjective) derived from a verb.
- deviator — to turn aside, as from a route, way, course, etc.
- disfavor — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- drivable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- drive at — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- driveway — a road, especially a private one, leading from a street or other thoroughfare to a building, house, garage, etc.
- durative — noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing incomplete or continued action. Beat and walk are durative in contrast to strike and step.
- duvalier — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), ("Papa Doc") 1907–71, Haitian physician and dictator: president 1957–71.