10-letter words containing s, a, v
- cadaverous — If you describe someone as cadaverous, you mean they are extremely thin and pale.
- camp stove — a portable stove used for cooking or heating, especially outdoors.
- canvasback — a North American diving duck, Aythyra valisineria, the male of which has a white body and reddish-brown head
- canvaslike — resembling canvas
- canvassers — Plural form of canvasser.
- canvassing — to solicit votes, subscriptions, opinions, or the like from.
- cap sleeve — a very short sleeve on a woman's dress, blouse, etc., fashioned by lengthening only the outer shoulder area of the garment to form a caplike extension
- captivates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of captivate.
- caravaners — Also, caravaneer, C01/C0128700 kar-uh-va-neer, ˌkær ə væˈnɪər. a leader of a caravan. a person who travels or lives in a caravan.
- caravanist — a group of travelers, as merchants or pilgrims, journeying together for safety in passing through deserts, hostile territory, etc.
- caregivers — Plural form of caregiver.
- carnivores — an animal that eats flesh.
- carryovers — Plural form of carryover.
- casevacked — Simple past tense and past participle of casevac.
- cash value — the nonforfeiture value of a life-insurance policy payable to the insured in cash upon its surrender.
- casimir iv — 1427–92, grand duke of Lithuania (1440–92) and king of Poland (1447–92)
- causatives — Plural form of causative.
- cavalcades — Plural form of cavalcade.
- cavillers' — to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily (usually followed by at or about): He finds something to cavil at in everything I say.
- cavortings — sexual frolics
- cerevisiae — (informal) The species Saccharomyces cerevisiae, or brewer's yeast.
- chaikovski — Peter Ilyich [il-yich] /ˈɪl yɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich.
- charles iv — known as Charles the Fair. 1294–1328, king of France (1322–28): brother of Isabella of France, with whom he intrigued against her husband, Edward II of England
- charles vi — known as Charles the Mad or Charles the Well-Beloved. 1368–1422, king of France (1380–1422): defeated by Henry V of England at Agincourt (1415), he was forced by the Treaty of Troyes (1420) to recognize Henry as his successor
- chauvinism — Chauvinism is a strong, unreasonable belief that your own country is more important and morally better than other people's.
- chauvinist — a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
- chavtastic — suitable for or designed for chavs
- chevaliers — Plural form of chevalier.
- chevesaile — a decorative collar on an article of clothing
- chevisance — an illegal arrangement or pact
- chivalries — Plural form of chivalry.
- chivalrous — A chivalrous man is polite, kind, and unselfish, especially towards women.
- clavierist — a person who plays the clavier
- conclavism — a minority movement (and the beliefs of certain Traditionalist Catholics) that rejects the authority of the established pope and instead supports an alternative pope
- 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.
- conservant — having the quality of conserving or preserving
- conservate — (dated, transitive) To conserve.
- constative — (of a statement) able to be true or false
- convalesce — If you are convalescing, you are resting and getting your health back after an illness or operation.
- 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.
- convulsant — producing convulsions
- covariates — Plural form of covariate.
- 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.
- crevassing — Present participle of crevasse.
- cultivates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cultivate.
- curvaceous — If someone describes a woman as curvaceous, they think she is attractive because of the curves of her body.
- curvacious — pleasingly curved