10-letter words containing c, a, v, l
- 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.
- convalesce — If you are convalescing, you are resting and getting your health back after an illness or operation.
- convenable — proper or correct in behaviour or conduct
- conventual — of, belonging to, or characteristic of a convent
- conveyable — to carry, bring, or take from one place to another; transport; bear.
- convulsant — producing convulsions
- copulative — serving to join or unite
- 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
- covalently — the number of electron pairs that an atom can share with other atoms.
- covenantal — an agreement, usually formal, between two or more persons to do or not do something specified.
- coveralled — wearing coveralls
- creatively — having the quality or power of creating.
- 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.
- culvertage — the forfeiture of a person's property, thereby reducing him to the status of a villain
- cumulative — If a series of events have a cumulative effect, each event makes the effect greater.
- curve ball — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- curve-ball — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- curveballs — Plural form of curveball.
- deceivable — capable of being deceived; gullible.
- decennoval — relating to nineteen
- devocalize — devoice.
- displacive — That involves or causes displacement.
- dolce vita — sweet life; the good life perceived as one of physical pleasure and self-indulgence (usually preceded by la).
- ecovillage — A community whose inhabitants seek to live according to ecological principles, causing as little impact on the environment as possible.
- everyplace — (US, informal) Everywhere.
- face value — the value printed on the face of a stock, bond, or other financial instrument or document.
- flavescent — turning yellow; yellowish.
- give place — to make room
- hack value — Often adduced as the reason or motivation for expending effort toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being that the accomplished goal is a hack. For example, MacLISP had features for reading and printing Roman numerals, which were installed purely for hack value. See display hack for one method of computing hack value, but this cannot really be explained, only experienced. As Louis Armstrong once said when asked to explain jazz: "Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know." (Feminists please note Fats Waller's explanation of rhythm: "Lady, if you got to ask you ain't got it.")
- inactively — In an inactive manner.
- involucral — Pertaining to, possessing, or like, an involucrum.
- lacerative — Lacerating, or having the power to lacerate.
- larvacidal — Alternative spelling of larvicidal.
- larvicidal — an agent for killing larvae.
- larvicides — Plural form of larvicide.
- lascivious — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- laviscious — (nonstandard) Lascivious.
- lilliac iv — (computer) A supercomputer designed in the late 1960s at the University of Illinois which had 64 separate CPUs all supervised by a common control unit and all capable of operating simultaneously.
- loch raven — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- love match — a marriage entered into for love alone.
- lucerative — Misspelling of lucrative.
- macrolevel — at or on a level that is large in scale or scope: macrolevel research on crime rates in urban areas.
- malvaceous — belonging to the Malvaceae, the mallow family of plants.
- mihailovic — Draža [Serbo-Croatian. drah-zhah] /Serbo-Croatian. ˈdrɑ ʒɑ/ (Show IPA), Mikhailovitch, Draja.
- mooncalves — Plural form of mooncalf.
- multivocal — having many or different meanings of equal probability or validity: a multivocal word.