11-letter words containing e, l, v
- circulative — Promoting circulation; circulating.
- circumvolve — to (cause to) turn around
- civil death — (formerly) the loss of all civil rights because of a serious conviction
- civilianize — to change the status of (an armed force, a base, etc) from military to nonmilitary
- clack valve — a simple nonreturn valve using either a hinged flap or a ball
- clarksville — city in N Tenn., on the Cumberland River: pop. 103,000
- clavecinist — a person who plays the clavecin
- clavigerous — bearing a key or club
- cleanshaven — having all the hairs shaved off
- clement vii — original name Giulio de' Medici. 1478–1534, pope (1523–34): refused to authorize the annulment of the marriage of Henry VIII of England to Catherine of Aragon (1533)
- clement xiv — (Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli; Lorenzo Ganganelli) 1705–74, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1769–74.
- clerk vicar — a lay officer in a cathedral who performs those parts of a service not reserved to the priests.
- clever dick — a person considered to have an unwarrantably high opinion of his or her own ability or knowledge
- close shave — a narrow escape
- cloud cover — the state of the sky when it is covered with cloud
- clove hitch — a knot or hitch used for securing a rope to a spar, post, or larger rope
- cloven foot — a foot divided by a cleft, as in the ox, deer, and sheep
- cloven hoof — Animals that have cloven hooves have feet that are divided into two parts. Cows, sheep, and goats have cloven hooves.
- coagulative — Obsolete. coagulated.
- coal heaver — a workman who moves coal
- coatesville — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
- cocultivate — to cultivate jointly
- codeveloper — a fellow developer
- coevolution — the evolution of complementary adaptations in two or more species of organisms because of a special relationship that exists between them, as in insect-pollinated plants and their insect pollinators
- coffeyville — a city in SE Kansas.
- cognitively — in a cognitive manner
- coin silver — silver having the standard fineness for coinage purposes.
- collectives — Plural form of collective.
- colligative — (of a physical property of a substance) depending on the concentrations of atoms, ions, and molecules that are present rather than on their nature
- collocative — the act of collocating.
- collusively — in a collusive manner
- combatively — In a combative way.
- compulsives — Plural form of compulsive.
- conceivable — If something is conceivable, you can imagine it or believe it.
- conceivably — capable of being conceived; imaginable.
- conflictive — to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash: The account of one eyewitness conflicted with that of the other. My class conflicts with my going to the concert.
- conservable — capable of being conserved: conservable fruits.
- contrivable — Capable of being contrived, invented, or devised.
- convalesced — Simple past tense and past participle of convalesce.
- conventicle — a secret or unauthorized assembly for worship
- conventuals — Plural form of conventual.
- conversable — easy or pleasant to talk to
- convertible — A convertible is a car with a soft roof that can be folded down or removed.
- convertibly — In a convertible manner.
- convex hull — the smallest convex set containing a given set; the intersection of all convex sets that contain a given set.
- convex lens — optical glass
- convictable — to prove or declare guilty of an offense, especially after a legal trial: to convict a prisoner of a felony.
- convincible — to move by argument or evidence to belief, agreement, consent, or a course of action: to convince a jury of his guilt; A test drive will convince you that this car handles well.
- convulsible — capable of becoming intensely agitated
- corpus vile — a person or thing fit only to be the object of an experiment