8-letter words containing v, e, c
- overrack — to strain too much
- overrich — having wealth or great possessions; abundantly supplied with resources, means, or funds; wealthy: a rich man; a rich nation.
- oversick — too sick
- perceive — to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses: I perceived an object looming through the mist.
- perceval — Spencer, 1762–1812, British statesman: prime minister 1809–12.
- percival — Also, Perceval, Percivale. Arthurian Romance. a knight of King Arthur's court who sought the Holy Grail: comparable to Parzival or Parsifal in Teutonic legend.
- picowave — to irradiate (food) with gamma rays in order to retard spoilage.
- precaval — See under vena cava.
- proclive — having an inclination towards an action; prone
- provence — a region in SE France, bordering on the Mediterranean: formerly a province; famous for medieval poetry and courtly traditions.
- province — an administrative division or unit of a country.
- re-cover — to cover again or anew.
- reactive — tending to react.
- receival — the act of receiving or state of being received; receipt
- received — generally or traditionally accepted; conventional; standard: a received moral idea.
- receiver — a person or thing that receives.
- receives — to take into one's possession (something offered or delivered): to receive many gifts.
- reconvey — to convey again.
- recovery — an act of recovering.
- recurved — curved upward, as the bill of a bird.
- revanche — the policy of a state intent on regaining areas of its original territory that have been lost to other states as a result of war, a treaty signed under duress, etc.
- rickover — Hyman George, 1900–86, U.S. naval officer, born in Poland: helped to develop the nuclear submarine.
- scaevola — Gaius [gey-uh s] /ˈgeɪ əs/ (Show IPA) (or Caius, ) [key-uh s] /ˈkeɪ əs/ (Show IPA), Mucius [myoo-shee-uh s,, -shuh s] /ˈmyu ʃi əs,, -ʃəs/ (Show IPA) fl. 6th century b.c., Roman hero.
- scavager — a person whose responsibility is to ensure the streets are kept clean
- scavenge — to take or gather (something usable) from discarded material.
- scivvies — Also called skivvy shirt. a man's cotton T-shirt.
- screever — an artist who draws pictures on sidewalks, as with colored chalks, earning a living from the donations of spectators and passersby.
- seducive — seductive
- servicer — someone who services
- services — a service tree, especially Sorbus domestica.
- shape_vc — A code management system which offers version control functionality similar to systems like RCS or SCCS with some extensions and a more Unix-like command interface.
- solvency — solvent condition; ability to pay all just debts.
- sovietic — relating to the Soviet Union
- sub voce — (used as a direction to a reference) under the specified word. Abbreviation: s.v.
- subcover — a set of subsets of a cover of a given set that also is a cover of the set.
- 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.
- tractive — having or exerting traction; drawing.
- unactive — inactive, listless, or idle
- uncarved — (of food) not carved or carved up
- unclever — mentally bright; having sharp or quick intelligence; able.
- uncloven — not cleft or split; not bifurcated
- uncurved — not curved
- unvoiced — not voiced; not uttered: unvoiced complaints.
- vaccinee — a person who receives a vaccination.
- vacherin — a soft French or Swiss cheese made from cows' milk
- vacuumed — a space entirely devoid of matter.
- valanced — a short curtain or piece of drapery that is hung from the edge of a canopy, from the frame of a bed, etc.
- valencia — Guillermo León [gee-yer-maw le-awn] /giˈyɛr mɔ lɛˈɔn/ (Show IPA), 1909–71, Colombian diplomat and statesman: president 1962–66.
- valiance — valiant nature or quality; valor; bravery; courage.
- vambrace — a piece of plate armor for the forearm; a lower cannon. Compare rerebrace.