10-letter words containing e, v, c
- convictive — able or serving to convince or convict
- convocated — Simple past tense and past participle of convocate.
- convoluted — If you describe a sentence, idea, or system as convoluted, you mean that it is complicated and difficult to understand.
- convolutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of convolute.
- convulsive — A convulsive movement or action is sudden and cannot be controlled.
- cookeville — a town in central Tennessee.
- cookstoves — Plural form of cookstove.
- cooptative — to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- copulative — serving to join or unite
- coral vine — a Mexican climbing vine, Antigonon leptopus, of the buckwheat family, having arrow- or heart-shaped leaves and pink or white flowers.
- corelative — correlative
- corrective — Corrective measures or techniques are intended to put right something that is wrong.
- corrosives — Plural form of corrosive.
- corruptive — tending to corrupt or produce corruption
- courbevoie — an industrial suburb of Paris, on the Seine. Pop: 85 716 (2006)
- couverture — Chocolate made with extra cocoa butter to give a high gloss, used for covering sweets and cakes.
- covalently — the number of electron pairs that an atom can share with other atoms.
- covariance — a measure of the association between two random variables, equal to the expected value of the product of the deviations from the mean of the two variables, and estimated by the sum of products of deviations from the sample mean for associated values of the two variables, divided by the number of sample points. Written as Cov (X, Y)
- covariates — Plural form of covariate.
- covenantal — an agreement, usually formal, between two or more persons to do or not do something specified.
- covenanted — an agreement, usually formal, between two or more persons to do or not do something specified.
- covenantee — the person to whom the promise in a covenant is made
- covenanter — a person upholding the National Covenant of 1638 or the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643 between Scotland and England to establish and defend Presbyterianism
- covenantor — a party who makes a promise and who is to perform the obligation expressed in a covenant
- coventrate — To devastate by heavy bombing.
- cover band — a band that makes or performs cover versions of songs
- cover crop — a crop planted between main crops to prevent leaching or soil erosion or to provide green manure
- cover girl — A cover girl is an attractive woman whose photograph appears on the front of a magazine.
- cover note — a certificate issued by an insurance company stating that a policy is operative: used as a temporary measure between the commencement of cover and the issue of the policy
- cover slip — Microscopy. cover glass.
- cover text — a text that conceals an encoded message.
- coveralled — wearing coveralls
- covermount — A covermount is a small gift attached to the front cover of a magazine.
- covertness — concealed; secret; disguised.
- covertures — Plural form of coverture.
- covetingly — in a covetous manner
- covetously — inordinately or wrongly desirous of wealth or possessions; greedy.
- crash dive — a sudden steep dive from the surface by a submarine
- crash-dive — a rapid dive by a submarine made at a steep angle, especially to avoid attack from a surface vessel or airplane.
- cravenness — cowardly; contemptibly timid; pusillanimous.
- creatively — having the quality or power of creating.
- creativity — creative ability; artistic or intellectual inventiveness
- crescively — in a crescive or increasing manner
- crevassing — Present participle of crevasse.
- crevecoeur — Miˈchel Guilˈlaume Jean de (miˈʃɛl giˈjoʊm ʒɑ̃ də) ; mēshelˈ gēyōmˈ zhän də) (pseud. J. Hector St. John) 1735-1813; Am. essayist & agriculturist, born in France
- crime wave — When more crimes than usual are committed in a particular place, you can refer to this as a crime wave.
- cross over — a structure consisting essentially of an upright and a transverse piece, used to execute persons in ancient times.
- cross vine — a woody bignoniaceous vine, Bignonia capreolata, of the southeastern US, having large trumpet-shaped reddish flowers
- cross-over — a structure consisting essentially of an upright and a transverse piece, used to execute persons in ancient times.
- cross-vein — a transverse vein that connects adjacent longitudinal veins in the wing of an insect.