10-letter words containing r, e, v, a, c
- chivalries — Plural form of chivalry.
- civil year — calendar year
- clavierist — a person who plays the clavier
- cloverleaf — A cloverleaf is an arrangement of curved roads, resembling a four-leaf clover, that joins two main roads.
- coacervate — either of two liquid phases that may separate from a hydrophilic sol, each containing a different concentration of a dispersed solid
- coalheaver — One who feeds coal into a furnace.
- cofavorite — a joint favourite
- conservant — having the quality of conserving or preserving
- conservate — (dated, transitive) To conserve.
- contravene — To contravene a law or rule means to do something that is forbidden by the law or rule.
- conversant — If you are conversant with something, you are familiar with it and able to deal with it.
- conversate — to have a conversation; converse; talk.
- 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
- 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.
- covenanter — a person upholding the National Covenant of 1638 or the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643 between Scotland and England to establish and defend Presbyterianism
- covenantor — a party who makes a promise and who is to perform the obligation expressed in a covenant
- coventrate — To devastate by heavy bombing.
- cover band — a band that makes or performs cover versions of songs
- coveralled — wearing coveralls
- crash dive — a sudden steep dive from the surface by a submarine
- crash-dive — a rapid dive by a submarine made at a steep angle, especially to avoid attack from a surface vessel or airplane.
- cravenness — cowardly; contemptibly timid; pusillanimous.
- creatively — having the quality or power of creating.
- creativity — creative ability; artistic or intellectual inventiveness
- crevassing — Present participle of crevasse.
- crime wave — When more crimes than usual are committed in a particular place, you can refer to this as a crime wave.
- cuernavaca — a city in S central Mexico, capital of Morelos state: resort with nearby Cacahuamilpa Caverns. Pop: 723 000 (2005 est)
- culvertage — the forfeiture of a person's property, thereby reducing him to the status of a villain
- curvaceous — If someone describes a woman as curvaceous, they think she is attractive because of the curves of her body.
- curvatures — Plural form of curvature.
- curve ball — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- curve-ball — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- curveballs — Plural form of curveball.
- cutis vera — cutis.
- czarevitch — the eldest son of a czar of Russia
- decorative — Something that is decorative is intended to look pretty or attractive.
- detractive — tending or seeking to detract.
- divaricate — to spread apart; branch; diverge.
- echeverria — Esteban [es-te-vahn] /ɛsˈtɛ vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1805–51, Argentine poet.
- evaporitic — Of or pertaining to an evaporite.
- everyplace — (US, informal) Everywhere.
- eviscerate — Disembowel (a person or animal).
- excavators — Plural form of excavator.
- execrative — A word used for cursing; an oath.
- extractive — Of or involving extraction, especially the extensive extraction of natural resources without provision for their renewal.
- face-saver — something that saves one's prestige or dignity: Allow him the face-saver of resigning instead of being fired.
- fricatives — Plural form of fricative.
- governance — information technology governance