10-letter words containing o, n, v, i
- connivance — Connivance is a willingness to allow or assist something to happen even though you know it is wrong.
- connivancy — connivance
- 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.
- contriving — to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot.
- 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
- convicting — to prove or declare guilty of an offense, especially after a legal trial: to convict a prisoner of a felony.
- conviction — a fixed or firmly held belief, opinion, etc
- convictism — the system of establishing a settlement, esp in Australia, and then transporting convicts to this settlement for confinement
- convictive — able or serving to convince or convict
- convincing — If you describe someone or something as convincing, you mean that they make you believe that a particular thing is true, correct, or genuine.
- convolving — Present participle of convolve.
- convolvuli — Plural form of convolvulus.
- convulsing — to shake violently; agitate.
- convulsion — If someone has convulsions, they suffer uncontrollable movements of their muscles.
- convulsive — A convulsive movement or action is sudden and cannot be controlled.
- coq au vin — chicken stewed with red wine, onions, etc
- 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)
- covetingly — in a covetous manner
- 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.
- denotative — able to denote; designative
- derivation — The derivation of something, especially a word, is its origin or source.
- detonative — (of an explosive, or ordnance) That is liable to detonate spontaneously.
- developing — If you talk about developing countries or the developing world, you mean the countries or the parts of the world that are poor and have few industries.
- deviations — Plural form of deviation.
- devocation — A calling off or away.
- devolution — Devolution is the transfer of some authority or power from a central organization or government to smaller organizations or government departments.
- devonshire — 8th Duke of, title of Spencer Compton Cavendish. 1833–1908, British politician, also known (1858–91) as Lord Hartington. He led the Liberal Party (1874–80) and left it to found the Liberal Unionist Party (1886)
- devotional — Devotional activities, writings, or objects relate to religious worship.
- dime novel — a cheap melodramatic or sensational novel, usually in paperback and selling for ten cents, especially such an adventure novel popular c1850 to c1920.
- disavowing — Present participle of disavow.