10-letter words containing n, e, r, v
- chernovtsy — a city in Ukraine on the Prut River: formerly under Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and Romanian rule; part of the Soviet Union (1947–91). Pop: 237 000 (2005 est)
- chervonets — (formerly) a Soviet monetary unit and gold coin worth ten roubles
- 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.
- cleverness — mentally bright; having sharp or quick intelligence; able.
- co-venture — a business project or enterprise undertaken jointly by two or more companies, each sharing in the capitalization and in any profits or losses.
- coinventor — a fellow inventor
- coinvestor — a fellow investor
- concretive — constituting an actual thing or instance; real: a concrete proof of his sincerity.
- conservant — having the quality of conserving or preserving
- conservate — (dated, transitive) To conserve.
- conserving — Present participle of conserve.
- contortive — characterized by, tending toward, or causing contortions or twisting: contortive movements; contortive pain; contortive alleyways.
- contravene — To contravene a law or rule means to do something that is forbidden by the law or rule.
- contrivers — Plural form of contriver.
- controvert — to deny, refute, or oppose (some argument or opinion)
- convectors — Plural form of convector.
- convergent — (of two or more lines, paths, etc) moving towards or meeting at some common point
- converging — to tend to meet in a point or line; incline toward each other, as lines that are not parallel.
- conversant — If you are conversant with something, you are familiar with it and able to deal with it.
- conversate — to have a conversation; converse; talk.
- conversely — You say conversely to indicate that the situation you are about to describe is the opposite or reverse of the one you have just described.
- conversing — to talk informally with another or others; exchange views, opinions, etc., by talking.
- conversion — Conversion is the act or process of changing something into a different state or form.
- convertend — the proposition to be subjected to conversion
- converters — Plural form of converter.
- converting — Present participle of convert.
- convertion — Misspelling of conversion.
- convertite — a convert, esp a reformed prostitute
- convertors — Plural form of convertor.
- coral vine — a Mexican climbing vine, Antigonon leptopus, of the buckwheat family, having arrow- or heart-shaped leaves and pink or white flowers.
- covariance — a measure of the association between two random variables, equal to the expected value of the product of the deviations from the mean of the two variables, and estimated by the sum of products of deviations from the sample mean for associated values of the two variables, divided by the number of sample points. Written as Cov (X, Y)
- covenanter — a person upholding the National Covenant of 1638 or the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643 between Scotland and England to establish and defend Presbyterianism
- covenantor — a party who makes a promise and who is to perform the obligation expressed in a covenant
- coventrate — To devastate by heavy bombing.
- cover band — a band that makes or performs cover versions of songs
- cover note — a certificate issued by an insurance company stating that a policy is operative: used as a temporary measure between the commencement of cover and the issue of the policy
- covermount — A covermount is a small gift attached to the front cover of a magazine.
- covertness — concealed; secret; disguised.
- cravenness — cowardly; contemptibly timid; pusillanimous.
- crevassing — Present participle of crevasse.
- cross vine — a woody bignoniaceous vine, Bignonia capreolata, of the southeastern US, having large trumpet-shaped reddish flowers
- cross-vein — a transverse vein that connects adjacent longitudinal veins in the wing of an insect.
- cross-vine — a climbing or creeping woody vine, Bignonia capreolata, of the bignonia family, having yellow-red trumpet-shaped flowers and a stem that shows a crosslike arrangement in cross section.
- cuernavaca — a city in S central Mexico, capital of Morelos state: resort with nearby Cacahuamilpa Caverns. Pop: 723 000 (2005 est)
- curvetting — Present participle of curvet.
- davenports — Plural form of davenport.
- delivering — Present participle of deliver.
- denervated — Simple past tense and past participle of denervate.
- derivation — The derivation of something, especially a word, is its origin or source.