10-letter words containing a, c, e, s, v
- cultivates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cultivate.
- curvaceous — If someone describes a woman as curvaceous, they think she is attractive because of the curves of her body.
- curvatures — Plural form of curvature.
- curveballs — Plural form of curveball.
- cutis vera — cutis.
- disadvance — to stop or cause to stop advancing
- displacive — That involves or causes displacement.
- evanescent — Soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence; quickly fading or disappearing.
- evanescing — Present participle of evanesce.
- eviscerate — Disembowel (a person or animal).
- evocations — Plural form of evocation.
- excavators — Plural form of excavator.
- face-saver — something that saves one's prestige or dignity: Allow him the face-saver of resigning instead of being fired.
- flavescent — turning yellow; yellowish.
- fricatives — Plural form of fricative.
- give chase — to pursue in order to seize, overtake, etc.: The police officer chased the thief.
- grievances — Plural form of grievance.
- hardcovers — Plural form of hardcover.
- haversacks — Plural form of haversack.
- inviscated — Simple past tense and past participle of inviscate.
- jackknives — Plural form of jackknife.
- jovysaunce — joy
- larvicides — Plural form of larvicide.
- malvaceous — belonging to the Malvaceae, the mallow family of plants.
- microwaves — an electromagnetic wave of extremely high frequency, 1 GH 3 or more, and having wavelengths of from 1 mm to 30 cm.
- mooncalves — Plural form of mooncalf.
- observance — an act or instance of following, obeying, or conforming to: the observance of traffic laws.
- olivaceous — of a deep shade of green; olive.
- overarches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overarch.
- overcasted — Simple past tense and past participle of overcast.
- overscaled — on an excessive scale
- revanchism — an advocate or supporter of a political policy of revanche, especially in order to seek vengeance for a previous military defeat.
- revanchist — an advocate or supporter of a political policy of revanche, especially in order to seek vengeance for a previous military defeat.
- riverscape — a view, painting, etc., of a river and the land surrounding or adjacent to it.
- scavengers — an animal or other organism that feeds on dead organic matter.
- scavenging — to take or gather (something usable) from discarded material.
- scuba dive — go deep-sea swimming
- scuba-dive — to descend and swim underwater using a scuba device.
- seat cover — a cover for a seat
- serviceman — a member of the armed forces of a country.
- shock wave — a region of abrupt change of pressure and density moving as a wave front at or above the velocity of sound, caused by an intense explosion or supersonic flow over a body.
- sick leave — leave from duty, work, or the like, granted because of illness.
- silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
- stavesacre — a larkspur, Delphinium staphisagria, of Europe and Asia Minor, having violently emetic and cathartic poisonous seeds.
- stove coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 5/8 to 2 7/16 (about 4 to 6 cm), intermediate between egg coal and chestnut coal.
- subclavate — somewhat club-shaped.
- surveyance — survey; inspection; superintendence
- survivance — survival
- the canvas — the floor of a boxing or wrestling ring
- tsarevitch — the son of a czar.