10-letter words containing i, n, v
- bedeviling — to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.
- bench vice — a vice mounted on a workbench
- benedict v — died a.d. 966, pope 964.
- bidonville — a shanty town
- biliverdin — a dark green pigment in the bile formed by the oxidation of bilirubin. Formula: C33H34O6N4
- blainville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
- bloviation — a lengthy but insubstantial speech
- bog spavin — enlargement of the hock of a horse by accumulation in the joint, usually caused by inflammation or injury, and often resulting in lameness
- bon vivant — a person who enjoys luxuries, esp good food and drink
- boniface v — died a.d. 625, pope 619–625.
- bonneville — Lake, a prehistoric lake in Utah, E Nevada, and S Idaho: Great Salt Lake is its remnant. 350 miles (564 km) long.
- boston ivy — a climbing vine (Parthenocissus tricuspidata) of the grape family, native to Japan and China, having shield-shaped leaves and purple berries: often grown to cover walls
- brain wave — any of the fluctuations of electrical potential in the brain as represented on an electroencephalogram. They vary in frequency from 1 to 30 hertz
- bring over — to cause (a person) to change allegiances
- burnsville — a city in SE Minnesota.
- cadaverine — a toxic diamine with an unpleasant smell, produced by protein hydrolysis during putrefaction of animal tissue. Formula: NH2(CH2)5NH2
- cantilever — A cantilever is a long piece of metal or wood used in a structure such as a bridge. One end is fastened to something and the other end is used to support part of the structure.
- canvaslike — resembling canvas
- canvassing — to solicit votes, subscriptions, opinions, or the like from.
- captivance — captivity
- caravaning — Present participle of caravan.
- caravanist — a group of travelers, as merchants or pilgrims, journeying together for safety in passing through deserts, hostile territory, etc.
- caregiving — the practice of providing care for a vulnerable neighbour or relative
- carnivores — an animal that eats flesh.
- catenative — Denoting a verb that governs a nonfinite form of another verb, for example, like in I like swimming.
- cavalcanti — Guido (ˈɡwiːdo). ?1255–1300, Italian poet, noted for his love poems
- cavaquinho — A small, four-stringed guitar resembling a ukulele, popular in Brazil and Portugal.
- cavilation — Alternative spelling of cavillation.
- cavitating — Present participle of cavitate.
- cavitation — the formation of vapour- or gas-filled cavities in a flowing liquid when tensile stress is superimposed on the ambient pressure
- cavortings — sexual frolics
- cerf, vint — Vint Cerf
- chauvinism — Chauvinism is a strong, unreasonable belief that your own country is more important and morally better than other people's.
- chauvinist — a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
- chavelling — Present participle of chavel.
- chekhovian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Anton Chekhov or his writings, especially as they are evocative of a mood of introspection and frustration.
- chevisance — an illegal arrangement or pact
- chevrotain — any small timid ruminant artiodactyl mammal of the genera Tragulus and Hyemoschus, of S and SE Asia: family Tragulidae. They resemble rodents, and the males have long tusklike upper canines
- circumvent — If someone circumvents a rule or restriction, they avoid having to obey the rule or restriction, in a clever and perhaps dishonest way.
- civilising — Present participle of civilise.
- civilizing — bringing a higher state of culture and social development
- clement iv — (Guy Foulques) died 1268, French ecclesiastic: pope 1265–68.
- clement vi — (Pierre Roger) 1291–1352, French ecclesiastic: pope 1342–52.
- clove pink — carnation (sense 1)
- coinventor — a fellow inventor
- coinvestor — a fellow investor
- conceiving — Present participle of conceive.
- conceptive — having the power of mental conception
- concessive — implying or involving concession; tending to concede
- conclavism — a minority movement (and the beliefs of certain Traditionalist Catholics) that rejects the authority of the established pope and instead supports an alternative pope