10-letter words containing n, i, e, v
- canvaslike — resembling canvas
- captivance — captivity
- caregiving — the practice of providing care for a vulnerable neighbour or relative
- carnivores — an animal that eats flesh.
- catenative — Denoting a verb that governs a nonfinite form of another verb, for example, like in I like swimming.
- cerf, vint — Vint Cerf
- chavelling — Present participle of chavel.
- chekhovian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Anton Chekhov or his writings, especially as they are evocative of a mood of introspection and frustration.
- chevisance — an illegal arrangement or pact
- 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.
- clement iv — (Guy Foulques) died 1268, French ecclesiastic: pope 1265–68.
- clement vi — (Pierre Roger) 1291–1352, French ecclesiastic: pope 1342–52.
- clove pink — carnation (sense 1)
- coinventor — a fellow inventor
- coinvestor — a fellow investor
- conceiving — Present participle of conceive.
- conceptive — having the power of mental conception
- concessive — implying or involving concession; tending to concede
- conclusive — Conclusive evidence shows that something is certainly true.
- concoctive — Of or pertaining to digestion; digestive.
- concretive — constituting an actual thing or instance; real: a concrete proof of his sincerity.
- concussive — Pathology. injury to the brain or spinal cord due to jarring from a blow, fall, or the like.
- conductive — A conductive substance is able to conduct things such as heat and electricity.
- congestive — A congestive disease is a medical condition where a part of the body becomes blocked.
- connective — A connective is the same as a conjunction.
- connivance — Connivance is a willingness to allow or assist something to happen even though you know it is wrong.
- connivence — the act of conniving.
- connivency — connivance
- conserving — Present participle of conserve.
- constative — (of a statement) able to be true or false
- consultive — of or relating to consultation; advisory.
- contentive — a content word or a morpheme that is the root of a content word. Compare functor (def 2).
- contortive — characterized by, tending toward, or causing contortions or twisting: contortive movements; contortive pain; contortive alleyways.
- contrivers — Plural form of contriver.
- convecting — Transport (heat or material) by convection.
- convection — Convection is the process by which heat travels through air, water, and other gases and liquids.
- convective — physics: transferring heat, etc.
- convenient — If a way of doing something is convenient, it is easy, or very useful or suitable for a particular purpose.
- convention — A convention is a way of behaving that is considered to be correct or polite by most people in a society.
- converging — to tend to meet in a point or line; incline toward each other, as lines that are not parallel.
- 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.
- converting — Present participle of convert.
- convertion — Misspelling of conversion.
- convertite — a convert, esp a reformed prostitute
- convictive — able or serving to convince or convict
- convulsive — A convulsive movement or action is sudden and cannot be controlled.
- 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)