9-letter words containing v, e, c, t
- nonactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- nonvector — a quantity without size and direction
- noviciate — The period during which you are a novice.
- obclavate — inversely clavate.
- objective — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
- olfactive — Of or pertaining to the sense of smell; olfactory.
- out-voice — the sound or sounds uttered through the mouth of living creatures, especially of human beings in speaking, shouting, singing, etc.
- overacted — Simple past tense and past participle of overact.
- overactor — Someone who overacts.
- overacute — excessively acute
- overcasts — Plural form of overcast.
- overcatch — to overtake
- overcoats — Plural form of overcoat.
- overcount — To count more of something than are actually present, or to count one thing disproportionately more than another.
- overexact — Too exact; overscrupulous; pedantic.
- 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.
- overpitch — to bowl (a ball) so that it pitches too close to the stumps
- overreact — to react or respond more strongly than is necessary or appropriate.
- overstock — to stock to excess: We are overstocked on this item.
- overteach — to teach too much
- overthick — too thick
- overtrick — a trick won by declarer in excess of the number of tricks necessary to make the contract.
- overwatch — to watch over.
- patercove — a fraudulent priest
- placative — placatory.
- preactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- prevacate — to give up possession or occupancy of: to vacate an apartment.
- proactive — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- receptive — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- reconvert — to convert again.
- reconvict — to convict (someone) again
- recurvate — bent back or backward; recurved.
- reductive — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
- refective — of or relating to refection; refreshing
- rejective — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
- revictual — to victual or provide with food again
- schvartze — a term used by some Jewish people to refer to a black person.
- secretive — secretory.
- seductive — tending to seduce; enticing; beguiling; captivating: a seductive smile.
- selective — having the function or power of selecting; making a selection.
- siccative — causing or promoting absorption of moisture; drying.
- sociative — expressing accompaniment or association
- softcover — paperback edition of a book
- suboctave — an octave below another octave
- tick over — If an engine is ticking over, it is running at a low speed or rate, for example when it is switched on but you are not actually using it.
- tzarevich — czarevitch.
- uncoveted — to desire wrongfully, inordinately, or without due regard for the rights of others: to covet another's property.
- vaccinate — to inoculate with the vaccine of cowpox so as to render the subject immune to smallpox.
- vacillate — to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute: His tendency to vacillate makes him a poor leader.
- vacuolate — having a vacuole or vacuoles.