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10-letter words containing c, o, v

  • changeover — A changeover is a change from one activity or system to another.
  • check over — a thorough examination or investigation.
  • check-over — a thorough examination or investigation.
  • chekhovian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Anton Chekhov or his writings, especially as they are evocative of a mood of introspection and frustration.
  • chernovtsy — a city in Ukraine on the Prut River: formerly under Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and Romanian rule; part of the Soviet Union (1947–91). Pop: 237 000 (2005 est)
  • chervonets — (formerly) a Soviet monetary unit and gold coin worth ten roubles
  • chevrotain — any small timid ruminant artiodactyl mammal of the genera Tragulus and Hyemoschus, of S and SE Asia: family Tragulidae. They resemble rodents, and the males have long tusklike upper canines
  • chivalrous — A chivalrous man is polite, kind, and unselfish, especially towards women.
  • 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.
  • cloud over — If the sky clouds over, it becomes covered with clouds.
  • clove pink — carnation (sense 1)
  • clover key — feature key
  • cloverleaf — A cloverleaf is an arrangement of curved roads, resembling a four-leaf clover, that joins two main roads.
  • co-venture — a business project or enterprise undertaken jointly by two or more companies, each sharing in the capitalization and in any profits or losses.
  • coacervate — either of two liquid phases that may separate from a hydrophilic sol, each containing a different concentration of a dispersed solid
  • coactivate — To cause, or to undergo coactivation.
  • coactivity — acting together.
  • coadjuvant — Cooperating.
  • coalheaver — One who feeds coal into a furnace.
  • 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
  • compu$erve — (Or "CompuSpend", "Compu$pend") A pejorative name for CompuServe Information Service (CI$) drawing attention to perceived high charges.
  • compulsive — You use compulsive to describe people or their behaviour when they cannot stop doing something wrong, harmful, or unnecessary.
  • compuserve — CompuServe Information Service
  • 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.
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