11-letter words containing i, r, e, v
- 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
- cohortative — intended to encourage
- coin silver — silver having the standard fineness for coinage purposes.
- comic verse — amusing verse
- comparative — You use comparative to show that you are judging something against a previous or different situation. For example, comparative calm is a situation which is calmer than before or calmer than the situation in other places.
- compressive — compressing or having the power or capacity to compress
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- conveyorize — to install conveyor belts in (a factory, etc)
- cooperative — A cooperative is a business or organization run by the people who work for it, or owned by the people who use it. These people share its benefits and profits.
- corporative — of or characteristic of a corporation
- corpus vile — a person or thing fit only to be the object of an experiment
- correctives — Plural form of corrective.
- correlative — If one thing is a correlative of another, the first thing is caused by the second thing, or occurs together with it.
- corrosively — In a corrosive manner.
- countervail — to act or act against with equal power or force
- countervair — (heraldry) A heraldic fur resembling vair, except in the arrangement of the patches or figures.
- counterview — an opposite or opposing view
- cove stripe — a decorative stripe painted along the sheer strake of a vessel, esp of a sailing boat
- cover point — a fielding position in the covers
- cover price — the price of a newspaper or magazine
- cracovienne — a fast dance from the Krakow region of Poland which became popular in Paris during the 19th century
- criminative — involving crimination; accusatory.
- cross river — a state of SE Nigeria, on the Gulf of Guinea. Capital: Calabar. Pop: 2 888 966 (2006). Area: 20 156 sq km (7782 sq miles)
- cruciverbal — of or relating to crosswords
- culver city — a city in SW California, W of Los Angeles.
- culverineer — a soldier bearing a culverin
- cursiveness — the quality of being cursive
- curvilineal — (Of a line) Having bends; curved; curvilinear.
- curvilinear — consisting of, bounded by, or characterized by a curved line
- d'iberville — Sieur(born Pierre Le Moyne) 1661-1706; Fr. explorer in North America
- data driven — A data driven architecture/language performs computations in an order dictated by data dependencies. Two kinds of data driven computation are dataflow and demand driven. From about 1970 research in parallel data driven computation increased. Centres of excellence emerged at MIT, CERT-ONERA in France, NTT and ETL in Japan and Manchester University.
- de beauvoir — Simone (simɔn). 1908–86, French existentialist novelist and feminist, whose works include Le Sang des autres (1944), Le Deuxième Sexe (1949), and Les Mandarins (1954)
- de villiers — A(braham) B(enjamin), born 1984, South African cricketer; a prolific run-scorer in all forms of international cricket
- deactivator — Any device used to deactivate something.
- decemvirate — a board of decemvirs
- declarative — making a statement or assertion
- decursively — in a decursive manner
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- deformative — making worse by alteration
- degradative — causing degradation
- delavirdine — A non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor used to treat HIV.
- deliverable — capable of delivery.