8-letter words containing ve
- blipvert — a very short television advertisement
- 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
- bow wave — wave that forms at the front of a ship
- 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.
- cadavers — Plural form of cadaver.
- captived — Simple past tense and past participle of captive.
- captives — Plural form of captive; persons held prisoner.
- caravels — Plural form of caravel.
- caritive — (in certain inflected languages, especially of the Caucasian group) abessive.
- 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.
- 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
- cd drive — a device that plays CDs
- cervelas — a French garlic sausage
- cervelat — a smoked sausage made from pork and beef
- cervezas — beer.
- cevennes — a mountain range in S central France, on the SE edge of the Massif Central. Highest peak: 1754 m (5755 ft)
- chavette — a young working-class woman whose tastes, although sometimes expensive, are considered vulgar by some
- 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.
- clavecin — a harpsichord
- cleavers — a Eurasian rubiaceous plant, Galium aparine, having small white flowers and prickly stems and fruits
- cleaveth — Archaic third-person singular form of cleave.
- cleveite — a crystalline variety of the mineral uranitite
- cleverer — mentally bright; having sharp or quick intelligence; able.
- cleverly — mentally bright; having sharp or quick intelligence; able.
- cliveden — a mansion in Buckinghamshire, on the N bank of the Thames near Maidenhead: formerly the home of Nancy Astor and the scene of gatherings of politicians and others (known as the Cliveden Set); now a hotel
- clovelly — a village in SW England, in Devon on the Bristol Channel: famous for its steep cobbled streets: tourism, fishing. Pop: 472 (2001)
- clovered — covered with clover
- co-drive — to take alternate turns driving (a vehicle) with another person
- coactive — acting together.
- coderive — to derive jointly
- codriver — The navigator in the sport of rally racing, who sits in the front passenger seat and gives directions to the driver.
- coercive — Coercive measures are intended to force people to do something that they do not want to do.
- coevolve — to evolve together
- cohesive — Something that is cohesive consists of parts that fit together well and form a united whole.
- coinvent — to invent jointly
- combover — Hair that is combed over a bald spot in an attempt to cover it.
- comeover — a person who has come from Britain to settle in the Isle of Man; used by people native to the island, often pejoratively about someone with a complaining or arrogant attitude
- conative — denoting an aspect of verbs in some languages used to indicate the effort of the agent in performing the activity described by the verb