11-letter words containing i, n, v
- civilianize — to change the status of (an armed force, a base, etc) from military to nonmilitary
- clairvoyant — Someone who is believed to be clairvoyant is believed to know about future events or to be able to communicate with dead people.
- 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
- cognitivism — the meta-ethical thesis that moral judgments state facts and so are either true or false
- cognitivist — A person who believes or works in cognitive grammar.
- cognitivity — the state of being cognitive
- 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.”.
- conjunctiva — the delicate mucous membrane that covers the eyeball and the undersurface of the eyelid
- conjunctive — joining; connective
- connectives — serving or tending to connect: connective remarks between chapters.
- connivingly — to cooperate secretly; conspire (often followed by with): They connived to take over the business.
- 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.
- contrivings — Plural form of contriving.
- convections — Plural form of convection.
- convenience — If something is done for your convenience, it is done in a way that is useful or suitable for you.
- conveniency — convenience
- conventicle — a secret or unauthorized assembly for worship
- conventions — A way in which something is usually done, esp. within a particular area or activity.
- conversions — Plural form of conversion.
- convertible — A convertible is a car with a soft roof that can be folded down or removed.
- convertibly — In a convertible manner.
- convexities — Plural form of convexity.
- conveyorize — to install conveyor belts in (a factory, etc)
- convicinity — a state of nearness to each other
- convictable — to prove or declare guilty of an offense, especially after a legal trial: to convict a prisoner of a felony.
- convictfish — painted greenling.
- convictions — a fixed or firm belief: No clever argument, no persuasive fact or theory could make a dent in his conviction in the rightness of his position.
- 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.