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10-letter words containing o, v, t

  • boston ivy — a climbing vine (Parthenocissus tricuspidata) of the grape family, native to Japan and China, having shield-shaped leaves and purple berries: often grown to cover walls
  • bovaristic — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
  • camp stove — a portable stove used for cooking or heating, especially outdoors.
  • captivator — to attract and hold the attention or interest of, as by beauty or excellence; enchant: Her blue eyes and red hair captivated him.
  • cavilation — Alternative spelling of cavillation.
  • cavitation — the formation of vapour- or gas-filled cavities in a flowing liquid when tensile stress is superimposed on the ambient pressure
  • cavortings — sexual frolics
  • 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
  • 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.
  • coacervate — either of two liquid phases that may separate from a hydrophilic sol, each containing a different concentration of a dispersed solid
  • coactivate — To cause, or to undergo coactivation.
  • coactivity — acting together.
  • coadjuvant — Cooperating.
  • coercitive — Obsolete form of coercive.
  • coercivity — the magnetic-field strength necessary to demagnetize a ferromagnetic material that is magnetized to saturation. It is measured in amperes per metre
  • cofavorite — a joint favourite
  • cogitative — capable of thinking
  • cohibitive — restrictive
  • coinventor — a fellow inventor
  • coinvestor — a fellow investor
  • collective — Collective actions, situations, or feelings involve or are shared by every member of a group of people.
  • combustive — the act or process of burning.
  • comitative — (of a case) expressing accompaniment
  • completive — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
  • conceptive — having the power of mental conception
  • conclavist — either of two persons who attend upon a cardinal at a conclave, one usually being an ecclesiastical secretary and the other a personal servant.
  • concoctive — Of or pertaining to digestion; digestive.
  • concretive — constituting an actual thing or instance; real: a concrete proof of his sincerity.
  • 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.
  • conservant — having the quality of conserving or preserving
  • conservate — (dated, transitive) To 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.
  • contravene — To contravene a law or rule means to do something that is forbidden by the law or rule.
  • contrivers — Plural form of contriver.
  • contriving — to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot.
  • controvert — to deny, refute, or oppose (some argument or opinion)
  • 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.
  • convectors — Plural form of convector.
  • 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.
  • conventual — of, belonging to, or characteristic of a convent
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