10-letter words containing r, i, v
- 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.
- 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.
- creatively — having the quality or power of creating.
- creativity — creative ability; artistic or intellectual inventiveness
- crescively — in a crescive or increasing manner
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- curvetting — Present participle of curvet.
- cutis vera — cutis.
- czarevitch — the eldest son of a czar of Russia
- 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
- daredevils — Plural form of daredevil.
- datatrieve — (database, language) A query and report system for use with DEC's VMS (RMS, VAX Rdb/VMS or VAX DBMS).
- decorative — Something that is decorative is intended to look pretty or attractive.
- degressive — reducing by gradual amounts
- deliverers — Plural form of deliverer.
- delivereth — Archaic third-person singular form of deliver.
- deliveries — the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc., to a designated recipient or recipients.
- delivering — Present participle of deliver.
- delivery's — the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc., to a designated recipient or recipients.
- demiquaver — a sixteenth note; semiquaver.
- demivierge — a woman who engages in promiscuous sexual activity but retains her virginity
- depressive — Depressive means relating to depression or to being depressed.
- deprivable — Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived.
- depurative — used for or capable of depurating; purifying; purgative
- derisively — characterized by or expressing derision; contemptuous; mocking: derisive heckling.
- derivation — The derivation of something, especially a word, is its origin or source.
- derivative — A derivative is something which has been developed or obtained from something else.
- derivatize — to alter (a chemical compound) via a chemical reaction, so that it becomes a derivative
- derivement — (obsolete) That which is derived; deduction; inference.
- derogative — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- detractive — tending or seeking to detract.
- detrivores — Plural form of detrivore.
- devalorize — Devalue.
- devanagari — a syllabic script in which Sanskrit, Hindi, and other modern languages of India are written
- devil tree — jelutong (def 3).
- deviltries — Plural form of deviltry.
- 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)
- dichlorvos — an organophosphate insecticide used to control garden and household pests and to treat worm infections
- digressive — tending to digress; departing from the main subject.
- directives — Plural form of directive.