10-letter words containing c, i, v, e
- connective — A connective is the same as a conjunction.
- connivance — Connivance is a willingness to allow or assist something to happen even though you know it is wrong.
- connivence — the act of conniving.
- connivency — connivance
- conserving — Present participle of conserve.
- constative — (of a statement) able to be true or false
- consultive — of or relating to consultation; advisory.
- contentive — a content word or a morpheme that is the root of a content word. Compare functor (def 2).
- contortive — characterized by, tending toward, or causing contortions or twisting: contortive movements; contortive pain; contortive alleyways.
- contrivers — Plural form of contriver.
- convecting — Transport (heat or material) by convection.
- convection — Convection is the process by which heat travels through air, water, and other gases and liquids.
- convective — physics: transferring heat, etc.
- convenient — If a way of doing something is convenient, it is easy, or very useful or suitable for a particular purpose.
- convention — A convention is a way of behaving that is considered to be correct or polite by most people in a society.
- converging — to tend to meet in a point or line; incline toward each other, as lines that are not parallel.
- conversing — to talk informally with another or others; exchange views, opinions, etc., by talking.
- conversion — Conversion is the act or process of changing something into a different state or form.
- converting — Present participle of convert.
- convertion — Misspelling of conversion.
- convertite — a convert, esp a reformed prostitute
- convictive — able or serving to convince or convict
- convulsive — A convulsive movement or action is sudden and cannot be controlled.
- cookeville — a town in central Tennessee.
- cooptative — to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- 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
- corrective — Corrective measures or techniques are intended to put right something that is wrong.
- corrosives — Plural form of corrosive.
- corruptive — tending to corrupt or produce corruption
- courbevoie — an industrial suburb of Paris, on the Seine. Pop: 85 716 (2006)
- covariance — a measure of the association between two random variables, equal to the expected value of the product of the deviations from the mean of the two variables, and estimated by the sum of products of deviations from the sample mean for associated values of the two variables, divided by the number of sample points. Written as Cov (X, Y)
- covariates — Plural form of covariate.
- cover girl — A cover girl is an attractive woman whose photograph appears on the front of a magazine.
- cover slip — Microscopy. cover glass.
- covetingly — in a covetous manner
- crash dive — a sudden steep dive from the surface by a submarine
- crash-dive — a rapid dive by a submarine made at a steep angle, especially to avoid attack from a surface vessel or airplane.
- creatively — having the quality or power of creating.
- creativity — creative ability; artistic or intellectual inventiveness
- crescively — in a crescive or increasing manner
- crevassing — Present participle of crevasse.
- crime wave — When more crimes than usual are committed in a particular place, you can refer to this as a crime wave.
- cross vine — a woody bignoniaceous vine, Bignonia capreolata, of the southeastern US, having large trumpet-shaped reddish flowers
- cross-vein — a transverse vein that connects adjacent longitudinal veins in the wing of an insect.
- cross-vine — a climbing or creeping woody vine, Bignonia capreolata, of the bignonia family, having yellow-red trumpet-shaped flowers and a stem that shows a crosslike arrangement in cross section.
- cult movie — film with small but enthusiastic fan base
- cultivable — (of land) capable of being cultivated
- cultivated — If you describe someone as cultivated, you mean they are well educated and have good manners.