Phrase Hound found 76 phrases and 51 compound words that contain cave. The most common are listed below. Open cave in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 76
- cave paintingThe activity of applying pigments to the interior surfaces of caves to create images, especially when carried out in prehistoric times.
- cave bearA large extinct species of bear, †Ursus spelaeus.
- man caveA part of a home specifically reserved for adult male activities, such as drinking beer, playing games and watching TV; often a garage or den.
- cave cricketAny cricket of the family Rhaphidophoridae.
- cave dwellerA prehistoric human who lived in caves; a caveman or cavewoman.
- cave lionAn extinct subspecies of lion, Panthera leo spelaea, known from fossils and multiple examples of prehistoric art.
- cave pearlA kind of speleothem, formed as calcite crystallizes on a nucleus such as a grain of sand, in much the same way that a biological pearl forms within a mollusc.
- cave swallowA medium-sized, squarish-tailed swallow (Petrochelidon fulva).
- Bee CaveA city in Travis County, Texas, United States.
- Cave JunctionA city in Josephine County, Oregon, United States.
- North CaveA village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE8932).
- South CaveA large village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE9231).
- Wind CaveA breathing cave in western South Dakota, United States, designated a national park and notable for its boxwork.
- code caveA sequence of null bytes in a process's memory, offering the capacity for the injection of custom instructions by a hacker.
- ice caveA natural cave, usually a lava tube or limestone cave, that contains significant amounts of perennial ice.
- cliff caveA natural rock shelter, sea cave, or man-made dwelling carved into the vertical face of a cliff and rock formation, ranging from ancient, historic cliff dwellings to dynamic coastal sea caves accessible by hiking or kayaking.
- Plato's CaveAn allegorical cave whose unwitting, chained inhabitants perceive reality only in the form of shadow puppetry cast by the light of a man-made fire, lacking any awareness of the limitations of their perspective or its constructed nature.
- cave hyenaAn extinct subspecies of spotted hyena (†Crocuta crocuta spelaea), which lived in Eurasia during the Pleistocene.
- salt caveA cave formed within rock salt by dissolution of this very soluble rock by water.
- Cave of AdullamA place or group in which people who have met failure or defeat in some way are said to congregate.
- Rising Star CaveA cave in Gauteng, South Africa; located near the Cradle of Humankind, it is the limestone cave system where Homo naledi was discovered.
- Denisova CaveA cave in Altai Krai, Siberia, Russia, where the first remains of the Denisovans where found.
- Fingal's CaveA seacave on the island of Staffa in the Inner Hebrides, known for its natural acoustics.
- cave artCave paintings.
- cave batSynonym of cave myotis: A vesper bat of species Myotis velifer.
Compound words 51
- cavemanAn early human or closely related species, popularly held to reside in caves.
- CaveyA surname.
- incavationThe act of making hollow.
- seacaveA cave that is in or under the sea.
- cavefishAny of various fish, typically blind and lacking pigment, that inhabit subterranean waters.
- cavegirlA young cavewoman.
- cavemateOne who shares the same cave.
- incaveTo cave inward.
- intercaveBetween caves.
- caveboyA young caveman.