10-letter words containing c, l, o, v
- overbleach — (transitive) To bleach too much.
- overcalled — (poker) Simple past tense and past participle of overcall.
- overclouds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcloud.
- overcolour — (transitive) To exaggerate.
- overcostly — Too costly. (from 16th c.).
- overfacile — excessively facile
- overglance — to glance over
- overlaunch — (in shipbuilding) to overlap planks
- overlocker — a person who overlocks seams, hems, etc
- overnicely — in an overnice manner
- overplaced — placed above
- overscaled — on an excessive scale
- pin clover — alfilaria.
- play havoc — to cause a great deal of damage, distress, or confusion (to)
- prevocalic — immediately preceding a vowel.
- proclivity — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- provencale — (sometimes lowercase) cooked, usually in olive oil, with garlic, tomatoes, onions, and herbs.
- provincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- red clover — a clover, Trifolium pratense, having red flowers, grown for forage: the state flower of Vermont.
- revolvency — the act or state of revolving
- slavocracy — the rule or domination of slaveholders: the slavocracy of the old plantations.
- solvolytic — relating to solvolysis
- 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.
- subvocally — in a subvocal manner, with subvocalization
- univocally — having only one meaning; unambiguous.
- uvulectomy — excision of the uvula.
- vacant lot — A vacant lot is a small area of land in a city or town that is not occupied or not being used.
- vacillator — to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute: His tendency to vacillate makes him a poor leader.
- vacuolated — having a vacuole or vacuoles.
- 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.
- varifocals — a pair of spectacles with varifocal lenses
- variolitic — Petrography. containing or resembling varioles, especially in texture.
- velocipede — a vehicle, usually having two or three wheels, that is propelled by the rider.
- versicolor — changeable in color: versicolor skies.
- vesiculose — composed of or containing vesicles
- video call — a call made via a mobile phone with a camera and a screen, allowing the participants to see each other as they talk
- video clip — short videotape extract
- video club — a club from which members can rent films on video or DVD
- viola clef — alto clef.
- violaceous — belonging to the Violaceae, the violet family of plants. Compare violet family.
- violescent — tending to a violet color: a violescent twilight sky.
- viticolous — vine-eating or vine-dwelling
- 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.
- vocabulist — a vocabulary
- vocalising — to make vocal; utter; articulate; sing.
- vocational — of, relating to, or connected with a vocation or occupation: a vocational aptitude.
- voice coil — a moving coil that drives the diaphragm of a sound reproduction system, as a loudspeaker, by the interaction of a changing magnetic field that is produced by a current in the coil and a fixed magnetic field that is produced by permanent magnets.
- voice mail — an electronic system enabling the recording and storage of (usually digitized) voice messages, which can subsequently be retrieved by the intended recipient.
- voice-lift — a cosmetic surgical operation on the vocal cords to make the voice sound younger