8-letter words containing v, d
- avoiding — Present participle of avoid.
- avowedly — acknowledged; declared: an avowed enemy.
- ayurveda — an ancient medical treatise on the art of healing and prolonging life, sometimes regarded as a fifth Veda
- backveld — (in South Africa) a remote, sparsely populated, and often primitive area
- beavered — Covered with, or wearing, a beaver or hat.
- bedcover — a bedspread
- bedevils — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedevil.
- bedivere — the loyal knight who is with the dying King Arthur and sees him off to Avalon
- bedrivel — to drivel upon or cover in dribble
- behooved — to be necessary or proper for, as for moral or ethical considerations; be incumbent on: It behooves the court to weigh evidence impartially.
- believed — to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so: Only if one believes in something can one act purposefully.
- berdyaev — Nikoˈlai (Aleksandrovich) (nikɔˈlaɪ ) ; nēk^ōlīˈ) 1874-1948; Russ. religious philosopher, in France after 1922
- bereaved — A bereaved person is one who has a relative or close friend who has recently died.
- bevelled — If a piece of wood, metal, or glass has bevelled edges, its edges are cut sloping.
- bud vase — a relatively tall, slender vase, usually footed, for holding a single, stemmed flower, usually a rosebud
- cadavers — Plural form of cadaver.
- calvados — a department of N France in the Basse-Normandie region. Capital: Caen. Pop: 659 893 (2003 est). Area: 5693 sq km (2198 sq miles)
- canvased — Simple past tense and past participle of canvas.
- captived — Simple past tense and past participle of captive.
- caveated — Simple past tense and past participle of caveat.
- caverned — (poetic) Pitted or hollowed out with caverns.
- cavilled — Simple past tense and past participle of cavil.
- cavitand — (chemistry) any of several classes of macrocycle that have a shape containing a cavity in which a guest molecule or ion may fit.
- cavitied — Having cavities.
- cavorted — Simple past tense and past participle of cavort.
- cd drive — a device that plays CDs
- cd-video — a compact-disc player that, when connected to a television and hi-fi, produces high-quality stereo sound and synchronized pictures from a disc resembling a large compact audio disc
- chivvied — Simple past tense and past participle of chivvy.
- clavated — Clavate; club-shaped.
- cliveden — a mansion in Buckinghamshire, on the N bank of the Thames near Maidenhead: formerly the home of Nancy Astor and the scene of gatherings of politicians and others (known as the Cliveden Set); now a hotel
- clovered — covered with clover
- co-drive — to take alternate turns driving (a vehicle) with another person
- coderive — to derive jointly
- codriver — The navigator in the sport of rally racing, who sits in the front passenger seat and gives directions to the driver.
- concaved — curved like a segment of the interior of a circle or hollow sphere; hollow and curved. Compare convex (def 1).
- connived — Simple past tense and past participle of connive.
- convened — Simple past tense and past participle of convene.
- convexed — Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form.
- conveyed — to carry, bring, or take from one place to another; transport; bear.
- convoked — Simple past tense and past participle of convoke.
- convoyed — Simple past tense and past participle of convoy.
- cordovan — a fine leather now made principally from horsehide, isolated from the skin layers above and below it and tanned
- could've — Could've is the usual spoken form of 'could have', when 'have' is an auxiliary verb.
- couvades — a practice among some peoples, as the Basques of Spain, in which a man, immediately preceding the birth of his child, takes to his bed in an enactment of the birth experience and subjects himself to various taboos usually associated with pregnancy.
- coverlid — coverlet
- cravened — Simple past tense and past participle of craven.
- creviced — Having a crevice or crevices.
- curveted — Simple past tense and past participle of curvet.
- da vinci — ˌLeo‧ˈnardo (ˌliəˈnɑrdoʊ ) ; lēˌənärˈdō) ; Italian ˌ lɛɔˈnɑʀdɔ) ; Italian leˌ^ōnärˈd^ō) 1452-1519; It. painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, & scientist
- damavand — highest peak of the Elburz Mountains, N Iran: 18,934 ft (5,771 m)