10-letter words containing a, c, i, v
- coactivity — acting together.
- cofavorite — a joint favourite
- cogitative — capable of thinking
- come alive — If people, places, or events come alive, they start to be lively again after a quiet period. If someone or something brings them alive, they cause them to come alive.
- comitative — (of a case) expressing accompaniment
- conclavism — a minority movement (and the beliefs of certain Traditionalist Catholics) that rejects the authority of the established pope and instead supports an alternative pope
- conclavist — either of two persons who attend upon a cardinal at a conclave, one usually being an ecclesiastical secretary and the other a personal servant.
- connivance — Connivance is a willingness to allow or assist something to happen even though you know it is wrong.
- connivancy — connivance
- constative — (of a statement) able to be true or false
- cooptative — to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- copulative — serving to join or unite
- coq au vin — chicken stewed with red wine, onions, etc
- coral vine — a Mexican climbing vine, Antigonon leptopus, of the buckwheat family, having arrow- or heart-shaped leaves and pink or white flowers.
- corelative — correlative
- covariance — a measure of the association between two random variables, equal to the expected value of the product of the deviations from the mean of the two variables, and estimated by the sum of products of deviations from the sample mean for associated values of the two variables, divided by the number of sample points. Written as Cov (X, Y)
- covariates — Plural form of covariate.
- crash dive — a sudden steep dive from the surface by a submarine
- crash-dive — a rapid dive by a submarine made at a steep angle, especially to avoid attack from a surface vessel or airplane.
- creatively — having the quality or power of creating.
- creativity — creative ability; artistic or intellectual inventiveness
- crevassing — Present participle of crevasse.
- crime wave — When more crimes than usual are committed in a particular place, you can refer to this as a crime wave.
- cultivable — (of land) capable of being cultivated
- cultivated — If you describe someone as cultivated, you mean they are well educated and have good manners.
- cultivates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cultivate.
- cultivator — A cultivator is a tool or machine which is used to break up the earth or to remove weeds, for example in a garden or field.
- cumulative — If a series of events have a cumulative effect, each event makes the effect greater.
- cunctative — delay; tardiness.
- curvacious — pleasingly curved
- cutis vera — cutis.
- czarevitch — the eldest son of a czar of Russia
- deactivate — If someone deactivates an explosive device or an alarm, they make it harmless or impossible to operate.
- deceivable — capable of being deceived; gullible.
- decorative — Something that is decorative is intended to look pretty or attractive.
- dedicative — of or relating to dedication; serving as a dedication.
- detractive — tending or seeking to detract.
- devocalize — devoice.
- devocation — A calling off or away.
- disadvance — to stop or cause to stop advancing
- displacive — That involves or causes displacement.
- divaricate — to spread apart; branch; diverge.
- dolce vita — sweet life; the good life perceived as one of physical pleasure and self-indulgence (usually preceded by la).
- echeverria — Esteban [es-te-vahn] /ɛsˈtɛ vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1805–51, Argentine poet.
- ecovillage — A community whose inhabitants seek to live according to ecological principles, causing as little impact on the environment as possible.
- equivocacy — Equivocalness.
- equivocate — Use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself.
- evacuating — Present participle of evacuate.
- evacuation — The action of evacuating a person or a place.
- evacuative — That causes evacuation; cathartic; purgative.