10-letter words containing r, v
- cover girl — A cover girl is an attractive woman whose photograph appears on the front of a magazine.
- cover note — a certificate issued by an insurance company stating that a policy is operative: used as a temporary measure between the commencement of cover and the issue of the policy
- cover slip — Microscopy. cover glass.
- cover text — a text that conceals an encoded message.
- coveralled — wearing coveralls
- covermount — A covermount is a small gift attached to the front cover of a magazine.
- covertness — concealed; secret; disguised.
- covertures — Plural form of coverture.
- 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
- crescively — in a crescive or increasing manner
- crevassing — Present participle of crevasse.
- crevecoeur — Miˈchel Guilˈlaume Jean de (miˈʃɛl giˈjoʊm ʒɑ̃ də) ; mēshelˈ gēyōmˈ zhän də) (pseud. J. Hector St. John) 1735-1813; Am. essayist & agriculturist, born in France
- crime wave — When more crimes than usual are committed in a particular place, you can refer to this as a crime wave.
- cross over — a structure consisting essentially of an upright and a transverse piece, used to execute persons in ancient times.
- cross vine — a woody bignoniaceous vine, Bignonia capreolata, of the southeastern US, having large trumpet-shaped reddish flowers
- cross-over — a structure consisting essentially of an upright and a transverse piece, used to execute persons in ancient times.
- 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.
- cross-vote — to vote against one's own party
- crossovers — Plural form of crossover.
- cuernavaca — a city in S central Mexico, capital of Morelos state: resort with nearby Cacahuamilpa Caverns. Pop: 723 000 (2005 est)
- 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.
- 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.
- curvacious — pleasingly curved
- 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.
- curvetting — Present participle of curvet.
- cutis vera — cutis.
- cyberglove — (hardware, virtual reality) A data glove sold by Virtual Technologies. The spandex-like glove houses 18 sensors to track accurately just about every move your hand is capable of making. The accompanying software includes a three-dimensional hand model that can he added to any virtual reality application. The glove includes a mount for Polhemus and Ascension sensors.
- 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).
- davenports — Plural form of davenport.
- decorative — Something that is decorative is intended to look pretty or attractive.
- defervesce — to undergo defervescence.
- degressive — reducing by gradual amounts
- deleverage — to reduce the ratio of debt capital to equity capital in an organization or (of an organization) to reduce the ratio of debt capital to equity capital
- 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.