10-letter words containing i, v, o
- behaviours — manner of behaving or acting.
- bidonville — a shanty town
- biodiverse — containing a wide variety of plant and animal species
- bioprivacy — the state of freedom from others having unauthorized access to biometric data about oneself
- bioreserve — an area preserving wildlife, landforms, and waterways while providing appropriate public use and enjoyment of a natural environment.
- bivouacked — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
- 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
- bolsheviks — a member of the more radical majority of the Social Democratic Party, 1903–17, advocating immediate and forceful seizure of power by the proletariat. (after 1918) a member of the Russian Communist Party.
- bolshevism — Bolshevism is the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
- bolshevist — a follower or advocate of the doctrines or methods of the Bolsheviks.
- bolshevize — to bring into line with Communist ideology
- 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.
- bookviewer — A hypertext documentation system from Oracle based on Oracle Toolkit. It allows the user to create private links and bookmarks, and to make multimedia annotations.
- boot virus — An MS-DOS virus that infects the boot record program on hard disks and floppy disks or the master boot record on hard disks. The virus gets loaded into memory before MS-DOS and takes control of the computer, infecting any floppy disks subsequently accessed. An infected boot disk may stop the computer starting up at all.
- 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
- bovaristic — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
- bravissimo — very well done! excellent!
- bring over — to cause (a person) to change allegiances
- brockville — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- captivator — to attract and hold the attention or interest of, as by beauty or excellence; enchant: Her blue eyes and red hair captivated him.
- caravaggio — Michelangelo Merisi da (mikeˈlandʒelo meˈriːzi da). 1571–1610, Italian painter, noted for his realistic depiction of religious subjects and for his dramatic use of chiaroscuro
- carnivores — an animal that eats flesh.
- cavaquinho — A small, four-stringed guitar resembling a ukulele, popular in Brazil and Portugal.
- cavilation — Alternative spelling of cavillation.
- 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
- chaikovski — Peter Ilyich [il-yich] /ˈɪl yɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich.
- chekhovian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Anton Chekhov or his writings, especially as they are evocative of a mood of introspection and frustration.
- 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
- chivalrous — A chivalrous man is polite, kind, and unselfish, especially towards women.
- clavichord — A clavichord is a musical instrument rather like a small piano. When you press the keys, small pieces of metal come up and hit the strings. Clavichords were especially popular during the eighteenth century.
- clove pink — carnation (sense 1)
- coactivate — To cause, or to undergo coactivation.
- coactivity — acting together.
- codiscover — to discover jointly
- coercitive — Obsolete form of coercive.
- coercively — serving or tending to coerce.
- coercivity — the magnetic-field strength necessary to demagnetize a ferromagnetic material that is magnetized to saturation. It is measured in amperes per metre
- cofavorite — a joint favourite
- cogitative — capable of thinking
- cohesively — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
- cohibitive — restrictive
- coinventor — a fellow inventor
- coinvestor — a fellow investor
- collective — Collective actions, situations, or feelings involve or are shared by every member of a group of people.
- combustive — the act or process of burning.
- come alive — If people, places, or events come alive, they start to be lively again after a quiet period. If someone or something brings them alive, they cause them to come alive.