10-letter words containing c, a, r, v
- silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
- slavocracy — the rule or domination of slaveholders: the slavocracy of the old plantations.
- stavesacre — a larkspur, Delphinium staphisagria, of Europe and Asia Minor, having violently emetic and cathartic poisonous seeds.
- surveyance — survey; inspection; superintendence
- survivance — survival
- take cover — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
- tovarishch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- traductive — able to be deduced or transmitted
- travancore — a former state in SW India: merged 1949 with Cochin to form a new state (Travancore and Cochin) reorganized 1956 to form the larger part of Kerala state.
- tsarevitch — the son of a czar.
- tzarevitch — czarevitch
- ulcerative — causing ulceration.
- uncreative — having the quality or power of creating.
- unreactive — tending to react.
- unveracity — lack of veracity or truthfulness; the quality or condition of tending to speak what is false
- vacationer — a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday: Schoolchildren are on vacation now.
- vaccinator — a person who vaccinates.
- vacillator — to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute: His tendency to vacillate makes him a poor leader.
- vagotropic — affecting the vagus nerve.
- vagrancies — the conduct of a vagrant.
- vallecular — a furrow or depression.
- vapor lock — an obstruction to the flow of fuel to a gasoline engine, caused by the formation of bubbles in the gasoline as a result of overheating.
- varicocele — a varicose condition of the spermatic veins of the scrotum.
- varicosity — the state or condition of being varicose.
- varicotomy — surgical removal of a varicose vein.
- varifocals — a pair of spectacles with varifocal lenses
- variolitic — Petrography. containing or resembling varioles, especially in texture.
- veal crate — a small, partitioned area, lacking in light, in which veal calves are reared to ensure that their meat is white
- vectograph — a technology that uses special glasses to see a photographic image between two plastic sheets as three dimensional
- vermicidal — a substance or agent used to kill worms, especially a drug used to kill parasitic intestinal worms.
- vermicular — of, relating to, or done by worms.
- vernacular — (of language) native or indigenous (opposed to literary or learned).
- vero beach — a town in central Florida.
- versicular — of or consisting of verses.
- vertically — being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
- vibraculum — any of the modified polyps on the surface of certain bryozoan colonies, having a long, whiplike appendage that clears away debris.
- vicariance — the geographical separation and isolation of a subpopulation, resulting in the original population's differentiation as a new variety or species.
- vice versa — the other way around
- victoriana — Interesting or valuable objects made in the time of Queen Victoria are sometimes referred to as Victoriana.
- victoriate — a silver coin of ancient Rome, first issued in the late 3rd century b.c., having a figure of Victory on the reverse.
- victualler — a person who furnishes victuals, especially a sutler.
- villarrica — a city in S central Paraguay.
- vindicator — to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
- vir chakra — an award made to distinguished soldiers by the Government of India
- viscachera — the burrow system of viscachas, which can extend up to 600 square metres, and has 4 to 30 entrances, some of which are big enough for a person to stand waist-deep
- viscerally — of or relating to the viscera.
- vocabulary — the stock of words used by or known to a particular people or group of persons: His French vocabulary is rather limited. The scientific vocabulary is constantly growing.
- vociferant — vociferating; noisy.
- vociferate — say loudly
- voice part — the melody or succession of tones for one of the voices or instruments in a harmonic or concerted composition.