11-letter words containing e, n, v, i
- bi-bivalent — separating into two bivalent ions
- biconvexity — the characteristic of having two convex surfaces
- bone spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
- boniface iv — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
- boniface vi — pope a.d. 896.
- brain fever — inflammation of the brain or its covering membranes
- broken vein — a ruptured blood vessel
- brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
- buena vista — a village in NE Mexico, near Saltillo: site of the defeat of the Mexicans by US forces (1847)
- bupivacaine — a local anaesthetic of long duration, used for nerve blocks
- cabin fever — If you describe someone as having cabin fever, you mean that they feel restless and irritable because they have been indoors in one place for too long.
- cablevision — cable television.
- cantilevers — Plural form of cantilever.
- carminative — able to relieve flatulence
- catonsville — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- cavaliering — a horseman, especially a mounted soldier; knight.
- celestine v — Saint (Pietro di Murrone or Morone) 1215–96, Italian ascetic: pope 1294.
- centerville — a town in W Ohio.
- chain drive — a chain of links passing over sprockets that transmits rotation from one shaft to another
- chevrotains — Plural form of chevrotain.
- circumvents — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumvent.
- civilianize — to change the status of (an armed force, a base, etc) from military to nonmilitary
- clavecinist — a person who plays the clavecin
- 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.
- 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
- coextensive — of the same limits or extent
- cognitively — in a cognitive manner
- coin silver — silver having the standard fineness for coinage purposes.
- combinative — resulting from being, tending to be, or able to be joined or mixed together
- comminative — comminatory
- communitive — Relating to community.
- concavities — Plural form of concavity.
- 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.
- confutative — That confutes.
- congo river — People's Republic of the, a republic in central Africa, W of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: formerly an overseas territory in French Equatorial Africa; now an independent member of the French Community. 132,046 sq. mi. (341,999 sq. km). Capital: Brazzaville. Formerly French Congo, Middle Congo.
- conjugative — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
- conjunctive — joining; connective
- connectives — serving or tending to connect: connective remarks between chapters.
- connotative — (of a word or expression) signifying or suggestive of an associative or secondary meaning in addition to the primary meaning: A connotative word such as “steely” would never be used when referring to a woman.
- consecutive — Consecutive periods of time or events happen one after the other without interruption.
- consequtive — Misspelling of consecutive.
- consumptive — A consumptive person suffers from tuberculosis.
- contractive — having the power of contracting
- contrastive — tending to contrast; contrasting. contrastive colors.
- contrivable — Capable of being contrived, invented, or devised.
- contrivance — If you describe something as a contrivance, you disapprove of it because it is unnecessary and artificial.
- convections — Plural form of convection.