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9-letter words containing v, c, h

  • lochinvar — the hero of a ballad included in the narrative poem Marmion (1808) by Sir Walter Scott.
  • lovechild — A child born to parents who aren't married to one another.
  • markevich — Igor [ee-guh r] /ˈi gər/ (Show IPA), 1912–83, Russian conductor and composer.
  • mechnikov — Ilya Ilyich [ee-lyah ee-lyeech] /iˈlyɑ iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), Metchnikoff, Élie.
  • niah cave — a limestone cave in Sarawak, Borneo, the site of the discovery of one of the earliest anatomically modern Homo sapiens skulls, dated c38,000 b.c.
  • overcatch — to overtake
  • overcheap — too cheap
  • overcheck — a textile pattern having one checked design superimposed on another so that both are visible.
  • overchill — to make too cold
  • overcoach — to coach too much
  • overmatch — to be more than a match for; surpass; defeat: an assignment that clearly overmatched his abilities; an able task force that overmatched the enemy fleet.
  • overperch — to fly up to perch on
  • overpitch — to bowl (a ball) so that it pitches too close to the stumps
  • overreach — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
  • overteach — to teach too much
  • overthick — too thick
  • overwatch — to watch over.
  • schiavone — the Italian name for a 17th century basket-hilted sword with a double edge
  • schvartze — a term used by some Jewish people to refer to a black person.
  • shockwave — (tool)   A program from Macromedia for viewing files created with Macromedia Director. Shockwave is freely available as a plug-in for the Netscape Navigator web browser. "Shocked" pages that incorporate documents created in Director can usually only be enjoyed by users with an ISDN or faster connection.
  • tovarisch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
  • tzarevich — czarevitch.
  • unvouched — to support as being true, certain, reliable, etc. (usually followed by for): Her record in office vouches for her integrity.
  • vehemence — the quality of being vehement; ardor; fervor.
  • vehicular — of, relating to, or for vehicles: a vehicular tunnel.
  • very much — greatly
  • vetchling — any of several slender, climbing plants belonging to the genus Lathyrus, of the legume family, similar to the vetch but having a winged or angular stem, as L. palustris, of North America.
  • vouch for — defend, corroborate
  • vouchered — a person or thing that vouches.
  • vouchsafe — to grant or give, as by favor, graciousness, or condescension: to vouchsafe a reply to a question.
  • whichever — no matter which: whichever day; whichever ones you choose.
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