10-letter words containing r, v
- aviculture — the keeping and rearing of birds
- avigator's — aerial navigation.
- avirulence — The state of being avirulent.
- avvogadore — an official Venetian criminal prosecutor
- ayurvedics — a therapeutic system based on the Ayurveda
- back cover — the back part of the cover of a book or magazine
- back river — a river in N Canada, flowing northeast through Nunavut to the Arctic Ocean. Length: about 966 km (600 miles)
- backvelder — a person who lives in a backveld
- bahuvrihis — Plural form of bahuvrihi.
- barneveldt — ˈJan van Olden (ˌjɑnˈvɑn ɔldən ) ; yänˌvän ôlˈdən) 1547-1619; Du. statesman & patriot
- bear river — a river in NE Utah, SW Wyoming, and SE Idaho, flowing into the Great Salt Lake. 350 miles (565 km) long.
- beaver dam — a city in SE Wisconsin.
- beaverette — rabbit fur dyed to resemble beaver.
- behavioral — Behavioral means relating to the behavior of a person or animal, or to the study of their behavior.
- behaviours — manner of behaving or acting.
- bell curve — a curve resembling the outline of a flared bell, usually representing a normal distribution
- bell-curve — bell-shaped curve.
- belt drive — a transmission system using a flexible belt to transfer power
- bevel gear — a gear having teeth cut into a conical surface known as the pitch zone. Two such gears mesh together to transmit power between two shafts at an angle to each other
- biliverdin — a dark green pigment in the bile formed by the oxidation of bilirubin. Formula: C33H34O6N4
- biodiverse — containing a wide variety of plant and animal species
- bioprivacy — the state of freedom from others having unauthorized access to biometric data about oneself
- bioreserve — an area preserving wildlife, landforms, and waterways while providing appropriate public use and enjoyment of a natural environment.
- book cover — the cover of a book
- book lover — a person who enjoys reading and reads more than the average person
- bookviewer — A hypertext documentation system from Oracle based on Oracle Toolkit. It allows the user to create private links and bookmarks, and to make multimedia annotations.
- boot virus — An MS-DOS virus that infects the boot record program on hard disks and floppy disks or the master boot record on hard disks. The virus gets loaded into memory before MS-DOS and takes control of the computer, infecting any floppy disks subsequently accessed. An infected boot disk may stop the computer starting up at all.
- bovaristic — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
- bovver boy — a rowdy youth
- box clever — to behave in a careful and cunning way
- braaivleis — a picnic at which meat is cooked over an open fire; a barbecue
- brain wave — any of the fluctuations of electrical potential in the brain as represented on an electroencephalogram. They vary in frequency from 1 to 30 hertz
- bratislava — the capital of Slovakia since 1918, a port on the River Danube; capital of Hungary (1541–1784) and seat of the Hungarian parliament until 1848. Pop: 428 672 (2001)
- bravissimo — very well done! excellent!
- break even — to attain a level of activity, as in commerce, or a point of operation, as in gambling, at which there is neither profit nor loss
- break-even — having income exactly equal to expenditure, thus showing neither profit nor loss.
- bridalveil — a waterfall in Yosemite National Park, California. 620 feet (189 meters) high.
- bring over — to cause (a person) to change allegiances
- brockville — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- bromsgrove — a town in W central England, in N Worcestershire. Pop: 29 237 (2001)
- brookhaven — a town in SW Mississippi.
- buck fever — nervous excitement felt by inexperienced hunters at the approach of game
- bur clover — any of several Eurasian legumes of the genus Medicago, as M. hispida, having yellow flowers and prickly, coiled, black pods, naturalized in North America.
- burnsville — a city in SE Minnesota.
- cabo verde — a republic in the Atlantic off the coast of West Africa, consisting of a group of ten islands and five islets: an overseas territory of Portugal until 1975, when the islands became independent. Official language: Portuguese. Religion: Christian (Roman Catholic) majority; animist minority. Currency: Cape Verdean escudo. Capital: Praia. Pop: 531 046 (2013 est). Area: 4033 sq km (1557 sq miles)
- cadaverine — a toxic diamine with an unpleasant smell, produced by protein hydrolysis during putrefaction of animal tissue. Formula: NH2(CH2)5NH2
- cadaverous — If you describe someone as cadaverous, you mean they are extremely thin and pale.
- caernarvon — a seaport in W Gwynedd, in NW Wales, on Menai Strait: 13th-century castle of Edward II.
- calaverite — a metallic pale yellow mineral consisting of a telluride of gold in the form of elongated striated crystals. It is a source of gold in Australia and North America. Formula: AuTe2
- camper van — A camper van is a van which is equipped with beds and cooking equipment so that you can live, cook, and sleep in it.