10-letter words containing c, i, v
- circumvent — If someone circumvents a rule or restriction, they avoid having to obey the rule or restriction, in a clever and perhaps dishonest way.
- civic hall — a public venue, often used for recreational facilities such as sports clubs or music concerts
- civil list — The Civil List is money paid by the state every year to members of the British Royal Family to cover their living expenses.
- civil year — calendar year
- civilising — Present participle of civilise.
- civilities — Plural form of civility.
- civilizers — Plural form of civilizer.
- civilizing — bringing a higher state of culture and social development
- clavichord — A clavichord is a musical instrument rather like a small piano. When you press the keys, small pieces of metal come up and hit the strings. Clavichords were especially popular during the eighteenth century.
- clavicular — a bone of the pectoral arch.
- clavierist — a person who plays the clavier
- clement iv — (Guy Foulques) died 1268, French ecclesiastic: pope 1265–68.
- clement vi — (Pierre Roger) 1291–1352, French ecclesiastic: pope 1342–52.
- clove pink — carnation (sense 1)
- coactivate — To cause, or to undergo coactivation.
- coactivity — acting together.
- codiscover — to discover jointly
- coercitive — Obsolete form of coercive.
- coercively — serving or tending to coerce.
- coercivity — the magnetic-field strength necessary to demagnetize a ferromagnetic material that is magnetized to saturation. It is measured in amperes per metre
- cofavorite — a joint favourite
- cogitative — capable of thinking
- cohesively — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
- cohibitive — restrictive
- coinventor — a fellow inventor
- coinvestor — a fellow investor
- collective — Collective actions, situations, or feelings involve or are shared by every member of a group of people.
- combustive — the act or process of burning.
- come alive — If people, places, or events come alive, they start to be lively again after a quiet period. If someone or something brings them alive, they cause them to come alive.
- comitative — (of a case) expressing accompaniment
- commissive — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
- completive — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- compluvium — an unroofed space over the atrium in a Roman house, through which rain fell and was collected
- compulsive — You use compulsive to describe people or their behaviour when they cannot stop doing something wrong, harmful, or unnecessary.
- conceiving — Present participle of conceive.
- conceptive — having the power of mental conception
- concessive — implying or involving concession; tending to concede
- conclavism — a minority movement (and the beliefs of certain Traditionalist Catholics) that rejects the authority of the established pope and instead supports an alternative pope
- 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.
- conclusive — Conclusive evidence shows that something is certainly true.
- concoctive — Of or pertaining to digestion; digestive.
- concretive — constituting an actual thing or instance; real: a concrete proof of his sincerity.
- concussive — Pathology. injury to the brain or spinal cord due to jarring from a blow, fall, or the like.
- conductive — A conductive substance is able to conduct things such as heat and electricity.
- congestive — A congestive disease is a medical condition where a part of the body becomes blocked.
- 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.
- connivancy — connivance
- connivence — the act of conniving.
- connivency — connivance