10-letter words containing c, o, v
- invocation — the act of invoking or calling upon a deity, spirit, etc., for aid, protection, inspiration, or the like; supplication.
- invocative — invoke.
- invocatory — the act of invoking or calling upon a deity, spirit, etc., for aid, protection, inspiration, or the like; supplication.
- involucral — Pertaining to, possessing, or like, an involucrum.
- involucred — (botany) Having an involucre.
- involucres — Plural form of involucre.
- involucrum — involucre.
- jovysaunce — joy
- knock over — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- lascivious — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- laviscious — (nonstandard) Lascivious.
- leontovich — Eugenie Konstantin [kon-stuh n-teen] /ˈkɒn stənˌtin/ (Show IPA), 1900–1993, U.S. actress, director, and playwright, born in Russia.
- loch raven — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- locomotive — a self-propelled, vehicular engine, powered by steam, a diesel, or electricity, for pulling or, sometimes, pushing a train or individual railroad cars.
- love child — a child born out of wedlock.
- love match — a marriage entered into for love alone.
- love scene — a play or film scene in which characters make love
- lovestruck — Alternative spelling of love-struck.
- loving cup — a large cup, as of silver, usually with two or more handles, given as a prize, award, token of esteem or affection, etc.
- 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.
- mezza voce — (in singing) softly; quietly
- microdrive — a type of memory card that has moving parts and can store large amounts of data
- microlevel — A microscopic level.
- microvilli — any of the small, fingerlike projections of the surface of an epithelial cell.
- microvolts — Plural form of microvolt.
- microwaved — Simple past tense and past participle of microwave.
- microwaves — an electromagnetic wave of extremely high frequency, 1 GH 3 or more, and having wavelengths of from 1 mm to 30 cm.
- mihailovic — Draža [Serbo-Croatian. drah-zhah] /Serbo-Croatian. ˈdrɑ ʒɑ/ (Show IPA), Mikhailovitch, Draja.
- mischivous — Obsolete spelling of mischievous.
- moiseivich — Benno [ben-oh] /ˈbɛn oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1963, English pianist, born in Russia.
- mooncalves — Plural form of mooncalf.
- multivocal — having many or different meanings of equal probability or validity: a multivocal word.
- muscovites — Plural form of muscovite.
- navy cross — a U.S. Navy decoration awarded for outstanding heroism in operations against an enemy.
- nerve cord — a single hollow tract of nervous tissue that constitutes the central nervous system of chordates and develops into the spinal cord and brain in vertebrates.
- nicholas v — (Thomas Parentucelli) 1397?–1455, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1447–55.
- non-victim — a person who suffers from a destructive or injurious action or agency: a victim of an automobile accident.
- nonviscous — inviscid.
- nonvocalic — Not vocalic; not used as a vowel.
- novaculite — a very hard sedimentary rock, similar to chert, composed essentially of microcrystalline quartz.
- novelistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of novels.
- novicehood — the condition of a novice
- noviceship — The state or position of being a novice.
- novobiocin — an aminocoumarin antibiotic, C31H36N2O11, derived from Streptomyces niveus, which works by inhibiting DNA synthesis in bacteria
- nucivorous — (of animals) feeding on nuts
- nux vomica — the seed of the orangelike fruit of an East Indian tree, Strychnos nux-vomica, of the logania family, containing strychnine, used in medicine.
- objectives — Plural form of objective.
- obrenovich — Alexander, Alexander I (def 3).
- observance — an act or instance of following, obeying, or conforming to: the observance of traffic laws.