10-letter words containing c, l, e, v, a
- cultivates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cultivate.
- 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.
- lacerative — Lacerating, or having the power to lacerate.
- larvicides — Plural form of larvicide.
- 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.
- mooncalves — Plural form of mooncalf.
- naviculare — a small boat-shaped bone of the wrist or foot
- novaculite — a very hard sedimentary rock, similar to chert, composed essentially of microcrystalline quartz.
- octavalent — having a valence of eight.
- olivaceous — of a deep shade of green; olive.
- overbleach — (transitive) To bleach too much.
- overcalled — (poker) Simple past tense and past participle of overcall.
- overfacile — excessively facile
- overglance — to glance over
- overlaunch — (in shipbuilding) to overlap planks
- overplaced — placed above
- overscaled — on an excessive scale
- palm civet — any of various small to medium-sized, chiefly arboreal cats of the civet family, of southeastern Asia, the East Indies, etc., with a spotted or striped coat and a long curled tail.
- prevalence — the condition of being prevalent, or widespread: the prevalence of AIDS in developing countries.
- prevocalic — immediately preceding a vowel.
- provencale — (sometimes lowercase) cooked, usually in olive oil, with garlic, tomatoes, onions, and herbs.
- reactively — tending to react.
- receivable — fit for acceptance; acceptable.
- sick leave — leave from duty, work, or the like, granted because of illness.
- silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
- stove coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 5/8 to 2 7/16 (about 4 to 6 cm), intermediate between egg coal and chestnut coal.
- subclavate — somewhat club-shaped.
- ulcerative — causing ulceration.
- univalence — the quality of being univalent.
- vacuolated — having a vacuole or vacuoles.