8-letter words containing v
- caviling — Present participle of cavil.
- cavilled — Simple past tense and past participle of cavil.
- caviller — to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily (usually followed by at or about): He finds something to cavil at in everything I say.
- cavitand — (chemistry) any of several classes of macrocycle that have a shape containing a cavity in which a guest molecule or ion may fit.
- cavitary — having or containing cavities
- cavitate — to form cavities or bubbles
- cavitied — Having cavities.
- cavities — Plural form of cavity.
- 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
- centavos — Plural form of centavo.
- cerenkov — Pavel A [pah-vuh l;; Russian pah-vyil] /ˈpɑ vəl;; Russian ˈpɑ vyɪl/ (Show IPA), 1904–1990, Russian physicist: Nobel Prize 1958.
- cervelas — a French garlic sausage
- cervelat — a smoked sausage made from pork and beef
- cervezas — beer.
- cervical — Cervical means relating to the cervix.
- cervices — cervix
- cervico- — cervical
- cervicum — the flexible region between the prothorax and head in insects
- cessavit — (UK, legal, obsolete) A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
- cevennes — a mountain range in S central France, on the SE edge of the Massif Central. Highest peak: 1754 m (5755 ft)
- charvaka — Lokayatika.
- chavette — a young working-class woman whose tastes, although sometimes expensive, are considered vulgar by some
- chavurah — havurah.
- cheshvan — (in the Jewish calendar) the eighth month of the year according to biblical reckoning and the second month of the civil year, usually falling within October and November
- chevalet — the piece of wood in a musical instrument that the strings are stretched over and which passes on their movement or oscillation to the main part of the instrument
- cheverel — a type of leather made from kidskin or goatskin
- cheveret — a small English table of the 18th century, having an oblong top, one or two rows of drawers, and slender legs joined near the bottom by a shelf.
- cheville — the peg or pin at the end of the string in a musical instrument that can be turned in order to tune the string
- chevrons — Plural form of chevron.
- chevrony — showing or displaying chevrons
- chivalry — Chivalry is polite, kind, and unselfish behaviour, especially by men towards women.
- chivaree — shivaree.
- chivvied — Simple past tense and past participle of chivvy.
- chivvies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chivvy.
- cistvaen — a pre-Christian stone coffin or burial chamber
- civicism — the principle of civil government
- civilian — In a military situation, a civilian is anyone who is not a member of the armed forces.
- civilise — To educate or enlighten a person or people to a perceived higher standard of behaviour.
- civilist — a civilian
- civility — politeness or courtesy, esp when formal
- civilize — To civilize a person or society means to educate them and improve their way of life.
- clavacin — patulin.
- clavated — Clavate; club-shaped.
- clavecin — a harpsichord
- clavicle — Your clavicles are your collar bones.
- claviers — Plural form of clavier.
- claviger — a key- or club-bearer
- clavinet — An electrophonic keyboard instrument, an electronically amplified clavichord with a distinctive bright staccato sound.