11-letter words containing n, o, v
- cavillation — any objection made to or dispute raised about trivial points or frivolities
- cavolo nero — an Italian variety of cabbage with dark green leaves
- change over — If you change over from one thing to another, you stop doing one thing and start doing the other.
- changeovers — Plural form of changeover.
- chevrotains — Plural form of chevrotain.
- civil union — a legally recognized marriage-like union of same-sex partners
- clairvoyant — Someone who is believed to be clairvoyant is believed to know about future events or to be able to communicate with dead people.
- cloven foot — a foot divided by a cleft, as in the ox, deer, and sheep
- cloven hoof — Animals that have cloven hooves have feet that are divided into two parts. Cows, sheep, and goats have cloven hooves.
- coadjuvancy — (rare) cooperation, mutual effort, joint-help.
- coadventure — adventure in which two or more share.
- coevolution — the evolution of complementary adaptations in two or more species of organisms because of a special relationship that exists between them, as in insect-pollinated plants and their insect pollinators
- coextensive — of the same limits or extent
- cognitively — in a cognitive manner
- cognitivism — the meta-ethical thesis that moral judgments state facts and so are either true or false
- cognitivist — A person who believes or works in cognitive grammar.
- cognitivity — the state of being cognitive
- coin silver — silver having the standard fineness for coinage purposes.
- combinative — resulting from being, tending to be, or able to be joined or mixed together
- comminative — comminatory
- communitive — Relating to community.
- concavities — Plural form of concavity.
- conceivable — If something is conceivable, you can imagine it or believe it.
- conceivably — capable of being conceived; imaginable.
- conflictive — to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash: The account of one eyewitness conflicted with that of the other. My class conflicts with my going to the concert.
- confutative — That confutes.
- 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.
- conjugative — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
- conjunctiva — the delicate mucous membrane that covers the eyeball and the undersurface of the eyelid
- conjunctive — joining; connective
- connectives — serving or tending to connect: connective remarks between chapters.
- connivingly — to cooperate secretly; conspire (often followed by with): They connived to take over the business.
- connotative — (of a word or expression) signifying or suggestive of an associative or secondary meaning in addition to the primary meaning: A connotative word such as “steely” would never be used when referring to a woman.
- consecutive — Consecutive periods of time or events happen one after the other without interruption.
- consequtive — Misspelling of consecutive.
- conservable — capable of being conserved: conservable fruits.
- conservancy — Conservancy is used in the names of organizations that work to preserve and protect the environment.
- conservator — A conservator is someone whose job is to clean and repair historical objects or works of art.
- consumptive — A consumptive person suffers from tuberculosis.
- contractive — having the power of contracting
- contrastive — tending to contrast; contrasting. contrastive colors.
- contravened — to come or be in conflict with; go or act against; deny or oppose: to contravene a statement.
- contravener — One who contravenes.
- contravenes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contravene.
- contrayerva — the root of any of several tropical American moraceous plants of the genus Dorstenia, esp D. contrayerva, used as a stimulant and tonic
- 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.
- contrivings — Plural form of contriving.
- controverse — a controversy
- controversy — Controversy is a lot of discussion and argument about something, often involving strong feelings of anger or disapproval.