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10-letter words containing o, v, i

  • cooptative — to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
  • copulative — serving to join or unite
  • 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.
  • corelative — correlative
  • corrective — Corrective measures or techniques are intended to put right something that is wrong.
  • corrosives — Plural form of corrosive.
  • corruptive — tending to corrupt or produce corruption
  • courbevoie — an industrial suburb of Paris, on the Seine. Pop: 85 716 (2006)
  • 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)
  • covariates — Plural form of covariate.
  • cover girl — A cover girl is an attractive woman whose photograph appears on the front of a magazine.
  • cover slip — Microscopy. cover glass.
  • 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.
  • cult movie — film with small but enthusiastic fan base
  • cultivator — A cultivator is a tool or machine which is used to break up the earth or to remove weeds, for example in a garden or field.
  • curvacious — pleasingly curved
  • d'oliviera — Basil (Lewis). 1931–2011, South African-born cricketer who played for England. The South African government's refusal to admit him to the country as part of the England touring party in 1968 led to South Africa being banned from international cricket
  • decorative — Something that is decorative is intended to look pretty or attractive.
  • demotivate — to cause (a person) to lose motivation
  • denotative — able to denote; designative
  • depositive — having the capacity or tendency to deposit
  • derivation — The derivation of something, especially a word, is its origin or source.
  • derogative — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
  • detonative — (of an explosive, or ordnance) That is liable to detonate spontaneously.
  • detrivores — Plural form of detrivore.
  • devalorize — Devalue.
  • 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.
  • devil book — (publication)   "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD Unix Operating System", by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels, and John S. Quarterman (Addison-Wesley Publishers, 1989, ISBN 0-201-06196-1). The standard reference book on the internals of BSD Unix. So called because the cover has a picture depicting a little devil (a visual play on daemon) in sneakers, holding a pitchfork (referring to one of the characteristic features of Unix, the "fork(2)" system call).
  • devil of a — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
  • devilwoods — Plural form of devilwood.
  • devocalize — devoice.
  • 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.
  • dichlorvos — an organophosphate insecticide used to control garden and household pests and to treat worm infections
  • 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.
  • disapprove — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
  • disavowing — Present participle of disavow.
  • discovered — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
  • discoverer — a person who discovers.
  • disemvowel — to remove the vowels from (a word in a text message, email, etc) in order to abbreviate it
  • disenvelop — to unfold
  • disenviron — to set free from a specific environment
  • disfavored — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
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