9-letter words containing v, e, r
- calvaries — Plural form of calvary.
- campervan — (Australia, NZ, British) A vehicle that provides both transport and sleeping accommodation.
- canaveral — Capecape on the E coast of Fla.: U.S. proving ground for missiles and spacecraft
- canvasser — to solicit votes, subscriptions, opinions, or the like from.
- caravaner — One who travels in a caravan (convoy or procession).
- card vote — a vote by delegates, esp at a trade-union conference, in which each delegate's vote counts as a vote by all his or her constituents
- caregiver — A caregiver is someone who is responsible for looking after another person, for example, a person who has a disability, or is ill or very young.
- caressive — resembling a caress or tending to caress
- carnivore — A carnivore is an animal that eats meat.
- carryover — If something is a carryover from an earlier time, it began during an earlier time but still exists or happens now.
- carve out — to make or create (a career)
- carve-out — to cut (a solid material) so as to form something: to carve a piece of pine.
- carveries — Plural form of carvery.
- cavalieri — Francesco Bonaventura [frahn-ches-kaw baw-nah-ven-too-rah] /frɑnˈtʃɛs kɔ ˌbɔ nɑ vɛnˈtu rɑ/ (Show IPA), 1598–1697, Italian mathematician.
- cavaliers — Plural form of cavalier.
- cavalries — Plural form of cavalry.
- cave bear — an extinct bear, Ursus spelaeus, that lived in caves in Europe during the Pleistocene Epoch.
- caveators — a person who files or enters a caveat.
- cavernous — A cavernous room or building is very large inside, and so it reminds you of a cave.
- centumvir — one of a body of judges responsible for presiding over civil court cases
- cervantes — Miguel de (miˈɣɛl ðe), full surname Cervantes Saavedra. 1547–1616, Spanish dramatist, poet, and prose writer, most famous for Don Quixote (1605), which satirizes the chivalric romances and greatly influenced the development of the novel
- charles v — known as Charles the Wise. 1337–80, king of France (1364–80) during the Hundred Years' War
- charvette — (Geordie, pejorative) A female charva.
- cherenkov — Pavel Alekseyevich (ˈpavɪl alɪkˈsjejɪvitʃ). 1904–90, Soviet physicist: noted for work on the effects produced by high-energy particles: shared Nobel prize for physics 1958
- chernigov — a city in N central Ukraine, on the River Desna: tyres, pianos, consumer goods. Pop: 308 000 (2005 est)
- chevalier — a member of certain orders of merit, such as the French Legion of Honour
- chevelure — the hazy or misty luminescence encircling a comet or star
- chevrette — the skin of a young goat
- chevronel — a narrow chevron, one-half the usual breadth or less.
- chew over — If you chew something over, you keep thinking about it.
- civiliser — Alternative form of civilizer.
- civilizer — to bring out of a savage, uneducated, or rude state; make civil; elevate in social and private life; enlighten; refine: Rome civilized the barbarians.
- clavering — Present participle of claver.
- cleverest — mentally bright; having sharp or quick intelligence; able.
- cleverish — Somewhat clever.
- co-driver — one of two drivers who take turns to drive a car, esp in a rally
- com. ver. — Common Version (of the Bible)
- comb-over — a hairstyle in which long strands of hair from the side of the head are swept over the scalp to cover a bald patch
- combovers — Plural form of combover.
- come over — If a feeling or desire, especially a strange or surprising one, comes over you, it affects you strongly.
- conceiver — to form (a notion, opinion, purpose, etc.): He conceived the project while he was on vacation.
- confervae — Plural form of conferva.
- connivers — to cooperate secretly; conspire (often followed by with): They connived to take over the business.
- connivery — the act of conniving
- conserved — Simple past tense and past participle of conserve.
- conserver — One who conserves.
- conserves — Plural form of conserve.
- contrived — If you say that something someone says or does is contrived, you think it is false and deliberate, rather than natural and not planned.
- contriver — to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot.
- contrives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contrive.