11-letter words containing a, i, r, v
- charles vii — 1403–61, king of France (1422–61), son of Charles VI. He was excluded from the French throne by the Treaty of Troyes, but following Joan of Arc's victory over the English at Orléans (1429), was crowned
- charles xiv — the title as king of Sweden and Norway of Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte
- chevrotains — Plural form of chevrotain.
- circulative — Promoting circulation; circulating.
- clairvoyant — Someone who is believed to be clairvoyant is believed to know about future events or to be able to communicate with dead people.
- clarksville — city in N Tenn., on the Cumberland River: pop. 103,000
- clavichords — Plural form of clavichord.
- clavigerous — bearing a key or club
- clerk vicar — a lay officer in a cathedral who performs those parts of a service not reserved to the priests.
- cohortative — intended to encourage
- comparative — You use comparative to show that you are judging something against a previous or different situation. For example, comparative calm is a situation which is calmer than before or calmer than the situation in other places.
- contractive — having the power of contracting
- contrastive — tending to contrast; contrasting. contrastive colors.
- contrivable — Capable of being contrived, invented, or devised.
- contrivance — If you describe something as a contrivance, you disapprove of it because it is unnecessary and artificial.
- cooperative — A cooperative is a business or organization run by the people who work for it, or owned by the people who use it. These people share its benefits and profits.
- corivalship — the state of being mutual rivals
- coronavirus — a type of airborne virus accounting for 10-30% of all colds
- corporative — of or characteristic of a corporation
- correlative — If one thing is a correlative of another, the first thing is caused by the second thing, or occurs together with it.
- countervail — to act or act against with equal power or force
- countervair — (heraldry) A heraldic fur resembling vair, except in the arrangement of the patches or figures.
- covariation — a correlated variation
- covarrubias — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), 1904–57, Mexican caricaturist, illustrator, and painter.
- cracovienne — a fast dance from the Krakow region of Poland which became popular in Paris during the 19th century
- criminative — involving crimination; accusatory.
- cruciverbal — of or relating to crosswords
- cultivators — Plural form of cultivator.
- curvilineal — (Of a line) Having bends; curved; curvilinear.
- curvilinear — consisting of, bounded by, or characterized by a curved line
- data driven — A data driven architecture/language performs computations in an order dictated by data dependencies. Two kinds of data driven computation are dataflow and demand driven. From about 1970 research in parallel data driven computation increased. Centres of excellence emerged at MIT, CERT-ONERA in France, NTT and ETL in Japan and Manchester University.
- de beauvoir — Simone (simɔn). 1908–86, French existentialist novelist and feminist, whose works include Le Sang des autres (1944), Le Deuxième Sexe (1949), and Les Mandarins (1954)
- deactivator — Any device used to deactivate something.
- decemvirate — a board of decemvirs
- declarative — making a statement or assertion
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- deformative — making worse by alteration
- degradative — causing degradation
- delavirdine — A non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor used to treat HIV.
- deliverable — capable of delivery.
- deliverance — Deliverance is rescue from imprisonment, danger, or evil.
- deliveryman — a man whose job is to deliver a product
- delta virus — a severe form of hepatitis caused by an incomplete virus (delta virus) that links to the hepatitis B virus for its replication.
- 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.
- demotivator — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- denervation — to cut off the nerve supply from (an organ or body part) by surgery or anesthetic block.
- denigrative — tending to denigrate
- depravation — to make morally bad or evil; vitiate; corrupt.
- depravingly — in a depraving manner
- depravities — Plural form of depravity.