11-letter words containing a, c, v
- cover glass — a thin square of mounted glass used to protect a photographic slide
- covert coat — a short topcoat worn for hunting
- cowansville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- crab-plover — a black and white wading bird, Dromas ardeola, of the northern and western shores of the Indian Ocean.
- cracovienne — a fast dance from the Krakow region of Poland which became popular in Paris during the 19th century
- criminative — involving crimination; accusatory.
- cross vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- cruciverbal — of or relating to crosswords
- culminative — (of stress or tone accent) serving to indicate the number of independent words or the important points in an utterance by assigning prominence to one syllable in each word or close-knit group of words.
- cultivating — Present participle of cultivate.
- cultivation — the planting, tending, improving, or harvesting of crops or plants
- cultivators — Plural form of cultivator.
- curry favor — to try to win favor by flattery, fawning, etc.
- curvilineal — (Of a line) Having bends; curved; curvilinear.
- curvilinear — consisting of, bounded by, or characterized by a curved line
- danger cave — a deep, stratified site in the eastern Great Basin, in Utah, occupied by Amerindian cultures from at least 7000 b.c. to historic times.
- deactivated — Simple past tense and past participle of deactivate.
- deactivates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deactivate.
- deactivator — Any device used to deactivate something.
- decemvirate — a board of decemvirs
- declarative — making a statement or assertion
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- deliverance — Deliverance is rescue from imprisonment, danger, or evil.
- demarcative — (of a phonological feature) serving to indicate the beginning or end of each successive word in an utterance, as word-initial stress in Hungarian or penultimate stress in Polish.
- demy octavo — a book size, 81⁄2 by 51⁄2 inches
- deprecative — serving to deprecate; deprecatory.
- desiccative — Causing to desiccate, dry.
- devocalized — Simple past tense and past participle of devocalize.
- diffractive — causing or pertaining to diffraction.
- distractive — tending to distract.
- divaricated — Spread-out, divergent, especially of a branch etc. which is at nearly ninety degrees to the main stem.
- divaricator — to spread apart; branch; diverge.
- divellicate — to separate; pull apart
- diverticula — a blind, tubular sac or process branching off from a canal or cavity, especially an abnormal, saclike herniation of the mucosal layer through the muscular wall of the colon.
- drive chain — a roller chain that transmits power from one toothed wheel to another
- duncanville — a town in N Texas.
- duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
- ecoactivist — One who takes part in ecoactivism.
- ecovillages — Plural form of ecovillage.
- ejaculative — Ejaculatory.
- elucidative — Explanatory, clarifying; that serves to elucidate.
- encaptivate — To captivate.
- enclavement — An enclave.
- equivalence — The condition of being equal or equivalent in value, worth, function, etc.
- equivalency — (countable) An equivalent thing.
- equivocally — With ambiguity.
- equivocated — Simple past tense and past participle of equivocate.
- equivocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of equivocate.
- equivocator — Agent noun of equivocate; one who equivocates.
- eradicative — Tending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil.