8-letter words containing v
- bivalent — (of homologous chromosomes) associated together in pairs
- blipvert — a very short television advertisement
- bloviate — to talk at length, esp in an insubstantial but inflated manner
- bob veal — the flesh of an unborn or newborn calf, used for food.
- boilover — a surprising result in a sporting event, esp in a horse race
- bolivian — Bolivian means belonging or relating to Bolivia or its people.
- bonavist — hyacinth bean.
- bovarism — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
- bovinity — the state of being bovine
- bow wave — wave that forms at the front of a ship
- breviary — a book of psalms, hymns, prayers, etc, to be recited daily by clerics in major orders and certain members of religious orders as part of the divine office
- breviate — a short account; a summary
- brezhnev — Leonid Ilyich (lɪaˈnit ˈilitʃ). 1906–82, Soviet statesman; president of the Soviet Union (1977–82); general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (1964–82)
- bucovina — Bukovina
- bud vase — a relatively tall, slender vase, usually footed, for holding a single, stemmed flower, usually a rosebud
- bukovina — a region of E central Europe, part of the NE Carpathians: the north was seized by the Soviet Union (1940) and later became part of Ukraine; the south remained Romanian
- bulgakov — Mikhail Afanaseyev (ʌfʌˈnasjef). 1891–1940, Soviet novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer; his novels include The Master and Margerita (1966–67)
- buplever — any of various yellow-flowered umbelliferous plants of the genus Bupleurum
- burgrave — the military governor of a German town or castle, esp in the 12th and 13th centuries
- cab-over — a truck tractor or other vehicle in which the cab is located over the engine.
- cable tv — a television system in which a high antenna and one or more dish antennas receive signals from distant and local stations, electronic satellite relays, etc. and transmit them by direct cable to the receivers of persons subscribing to the system
- 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)
- calvaria — the top part of the skull of vertebrates
- canvased — Simple past tense and past participle of canvas.
- canvaser — Alt form canvasser.
- canvases — a closely woven, heavy cloth of cotton, hemp, or linen, used for tents, sails, etc.
- captived — Simple past tense and past participle of captive.
- captives — Plural form of captive; persons held prisoner.
- caravans — Plural form of caravan.
- caravels — Plural form of caravel.
- caritive — (in certain inflected languages, especially of the Caucasian group) abessive.
- carnival — A carnival is a public festival during which people play music and sometimes dance in the streets.
- carve up — If you say that someone carves something up, you disapprove of the way they have divided it into small parts.
- carveout — A small company created from a larger one.
- carvings — Plural form of carving.
- casanova — Giovanni Jacopo (dʒoˈvanni ˈjaːkopo). 1725–98, Italian adventurer noted for his Mémoires, a vivid account of his sexual adventures and of contemporary society
- casevacs — Plural form of casevac.
- cavalero — a gentleman or cavalier
- cavalier — If you describe a person or their behaviour as cavalier, you are criticizing them because you think that they do not consider other people's feelings or take account of the seriousness of a situation.
- cavatina — a solo song resembling a simple aria
- cave art — paintings and engravings on the walls of caves and rock-shelters, especially naturalistic depictions of animals, produced by Upper Paleolithic peoples of western Europe between about 28,000 and 10,000 years ago.
- cave man — a prehistoric human being of the Stone Age who lived in caves
- caveated — Simple past tense and past participle of caveat.
- caveator — a person who enters a caveat
- cavefish — any of various small freshwater cyprinodont fishes of the genera Amblyopsis, Chologaster, etc, living in subterranean and other waters in S North America
- cavelike — similar to or resembling a cave
- caverned — (poetic) Pitted or hollowed out with caverns.
- cavesson — a kind of hard noseband, used (esp formerly) in breaking a horse in
- cavicorn — (of sheep, goats, etc) having hollow horns as distinct from the solid antlers of deer