11-letter words containing l, a, v
- check valve — a valve that closes by fluid pressure to prevent return flow
- chula vista — city in SW Calif.: suburb of San Diego: pop. 174,000
- circulative — Promoting circulation; circulating.
- civil death — (formerly) the loss of all civil rights because of a serious conviction
- civilianize — to change the status of (an armed force, a base, etc) from military to nonmilitary
- clack valve — a simple nonreturn valve using either a hinged flap or a ball
- clairvoyant — Someone who is believed to be clairvoyant is believed to know about future events or to be able to communicate with dead people.
- clarksville — city in N Tenn., on the Cumberland River: pop. 103,000
- clavecinist — a person who plays the clavecin
- clavichords — Plural form of clavichord.
- clavigerous — bearing a key or club
- cleanshaven — having all the hairs shaved off
- clerk vicar — a lay officer in a cathedral who performs those parts of a service not reserved to the priests.
- close shave — a narrow escape
- coagulative — Obsolete. coagulated.
- coal heaver — a workman who moves coal
- coatesville — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
- cocultivate — to cultivate jointly
- colligative — (of a physical property of a substance) depending on the concentrations of atoms, ions, and molecules that are present rather than on their nature
- collocative — the act of collocating.
- combatively — In a combative way.
- conceivable — If something is conceivable, you can imagine it or believe it.
- conceivably — capable of being conceived; imaginable.
- conservable — capable of being conserved: conservable fruits.
- contrivable — Capable of being contrived, invented, or devised.
- convalesced — Simple past tense and past participle of convalesce.
- conventuals — Plural form of conventual.
- conversable — easy or pleasant to talk to
- convictable — to prove or declare guilty of an offense, especially after a legal trial: to convict a prisoner of a felony.
- convivially — friendly; agreeable: a convivial atmosphere.
- convulsants — Plural form of convulsant.
- corivalship — the state of being mutual rivals
- correlative — If one thing is a correlative of another, the first thing is caused by the second thing, or occurs together with it.
- countervail — to act or act against with equal power or force
- cover glass — a thin square of mounted glass used to protect a photographic slide
- cowansville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- crab-plover — a black and white wading bird, Dromas ardeola, of the northern and western shores of the Indian Ocean.
- cross vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- cruciverbal — of or relating to crosswords
- culminative — (of stress or tone accent) serving to indicate the number of independent words or the important points in an utterance by assigning prominence to one syllable in each word or close-knit group of words.
- cultivating — Present participle of cultivate.
- cultivation — the planting, tending, improving, or harvesting of crops or plants
- cultivators — Plural form of cultivator.
- curvilineal — (Of a line) Having bends; curved; curvilinear.
- curvilinear — consisting of, bounded by, or characterized by a curved line
- declarative — making a statement or assertion
- delavirdine — A non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor used to treat HIV.
- deleveraged — Simple past tense and past participle of deleverage.
- deliverable — capable of delivery.
- deliverance — Deliverance is rescue from imprisonment, danger, or evil.