10-letter words containing c, u, e, v
- cumulative — If a series of events have a cumulative effect, each event makes the effect greater.
- cunctative — delay; tardiness.
- curvaceous — If someone describes a woman as curvaceous, they think she is attractive because of the curves of her body.
- curvatures — Plural form of curvature.
- curve ball — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- curve-ball — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- curveballs — Plural form of curveball.
- curvetting — Present participle of curvet.
- cut velvet — a fabric in which the looped pile has been cut. Compare velvet.
- cutis vera — cutis.
- defunctive — of or relating to the dead; funereal.
- discursive — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
- discussive — (medicine, dated) A medicine that discusses or disperses morbid humours; a discutient.
- divulgence — a divulging.
- downcurved — curved downward at the edges or end: his downcurved mouth conveyed his disappointment; downcurved beak.
- duck-shove — to evade responsibility (for)
- duckshover — one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats
- dust cover — a cloth or plastic covering used to protect furniture or equipment, as during a period of nonuse.
- dutch oven — a heavily constructed kettle with a close-fitting lid, used for pot roasts, stews, etc.
- equivocacy — Equivocalness.
- equivocate — Use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself.
- evacuating — Present participle of evacuate.
- evacuation — The action of evacuating a person or a place.
- evacuative — That causes evacuation; cathartic; purgative.
- exclusives — Plural form of exclusive.
- executives — Plural form of executive.
- face value — the value printed on the face of a stock, bond, or other financial instrument or document.
- 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.")
- incubative — Of or pertaining to incubation.
- incurvated — Simple past tense and past participle of incurvate.
- injunctive — Law. a judicial process or order requiring the person or persons to whom it is directed to do a particular act or to refrain from doing a particular act.
- involucred — (botany) Having an involucre.
- involucres — Plural form of involucre.
- jovysaunce — joy
- judicative — having ability to judge; judging: the judicative faculty.
- jus civile — the rules and principles of law derived from the customs and legislation of Rome, as opposed to those derived from the customs of all nations (jus gentium) or from fundamental ideas of right and wrong implicit in the human mind (jus naturale)
- khrushchev — Nikita S(ergeyevich) [ni-kee-tuh sur-gey-uh-vich;; Russian nyi-kyee-tuh syir-gye-yuh-vyich] /nɪˈki tə sɜrˈgeɪ ə vɪtʃ;; Russian nyɪˈkyi tə syɪrˈgyɛ yə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1894–1971, Russian political leader: premier of the U.S.S.R. 1958–64.
- kragujevac — a town in E central Serbia; capital of Serbia (1818–39); automobile industry. Pop: 145 890 (2002)
- lovestruck — Alternative spelling of love-struck.
- lucerative — Misspelling of lucrative.
- malvaceous — belonging to the Malvaceae, the mallow family of plants.
- muscovites — Plural form of muscovite.
- 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.
- occlusives — Plural form of occlusive.
- occupative — relating to work or profession
- olivaceous — of a deep shade of green; olive.
- outachieve — (transitive) To surpass in achievement; to achieve more than.
- over-focus — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- overclouds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcloud.