10-letter words containing c, a, n, v
- evanescing — Present participle of evanesce.
- evocations — Plural form of evocation.
- excavating — Present participle of excavate.
- excavation — The action of excavating something, esp. an archaeological site.
- fancy dive — any of the series of specified dives executed in fancy diving, as the jackknife or gainer.
- flavescent — turning yellow; yellowish.
- governance — information technology governance
- gravitonic — Relating to gravitons.
- grievances — Plural form of grievance.
- in advance — to move or bring forward: The general advanced his troops to the new position.
- inactivate — to make inactive: The bomb was inactivated.
- inactively — In an inactive manner.
- inactivity — not active: an inactive volcano.
- inchoative — inceptive.
- incitative — an agent which incites or is capable of inciting or rousing; a stimulant
- incubative — Of or pertaining to incubation.
- incurvated — Simple past tense and past participle of incurvate.
- indicative — showing, signifying, or pointing out; expressive or suggestive (usually followed by of): behavior indicative of mental disorder.
- invariance — The property of being invariant.
- inveracity — untruthfulness; mendacity.
- inveteracy — the quality or state of being inveterate or deeply ingrained: the inveteracy of people's prejudices.
- inviscated — Simple past tense and past participle of inviscate.
- invocating — invoke.
- invocation — the act of invoking or calling upon a deity, spirit, etc., for aid, protection, inspiration, or the like; supplication.
- invocative — invoke.
- invocatory — the act of invoking or calling upon a deity, spirit, etc., for aid, protection, inspiration, or the like; supplication.
- involucral — Pertaining to, possessing, or like, an involucrum.
- jackknives — Plural form of jackknife.
- java finch — a finchlike weaverbird, Padda oryzivora, of southeastern Asia, having gray plumage tinged with pink on the belly, often kept as a cage bird.
- jovysaunce — joy
- loch raven — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- minivacuum — a small, handheld vacuum cleaner, as for vacuuming upholstered furniture or car seats, or other relatively small areas.
- mooncalves — Plural form of mooncalf.
- native cat — any of several catlike dasyures of the genus Dasyurus, of Australia and Tasmania: most populations are now rare.
- nativistic — the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants.
- naviculare — a small boat-shaped bone of the wrist or foot
- naviculars — Plural form of navicular.
- navy cross — a U.S. Navy decoration awarded for outstanding heroism in operations against an enemy.
- nicholas v — (Thomas Parentucelli) 1397?–1455, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1447–55.
- nonvocalic — Not vocalic; not used as a vowel.
- novaculite — a very hard sedimentary rock, similar to chert, composed essentially of microcrystalline quartz.
- nux vomica — the seed of the orangelike fruit of an East Indian tree, Strychnos nux-vomica, of the logania family, containing strychnine, used in medicine.
- observance — an act or instance of following, obeying, or conforming to: the observance of traffic laws.
- octavalent — having a valence of eight.
- ordovician — noting or pertaining to a geologic period of the Paleozoic Era, from 500 million to 425 million years ago, notable for the advent of fish.
- overacting — Present participle of overact.
- overaction — Excessive action (as of a muscle of the body).
- overcanopy — to cover like a canopy
- overglance — to glance over
- overlaunch — (in shipbuilding) to overlap planks