13-letter words containing t, c, v, n
- consolidative — Tending or having power to consolidate.
- consumptively — In a consumptive manner.
- consumptivity — consumptiveness
- contaminative — That contaminates.
- contemplative — Someone who is contemplative thinks deeply, or is thinking in a serious and calm way.
- continuatives — Plural form of continuative.
- contraceptive — A contraceptive method or device is a method or a device which a woman uses to prevent herself from becoming pregnant.
- contradictive — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
- contrafactive — Denoting a verb that assigns to its object (normally a clausal object) the status of not being true, e.g., pretend and wish.
- contragestive — able to prevent gestation
- contragravity — (scifi) antigravity.
- contrastively — tending to contrast; contrasting. contrastive colors.
- contravariant — (category theory, of a functor) which reverses composition.
- contravention — an act of contravening; action counter to something; violation or opposition.
- contraversial — Misspelling of controversial.
- contraversion — A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe.
- controversary — (obsolete) controversial.
- controversial — If you describe something or someone as controversial, you mean that they are the subject of intense public argument, disagreement, or disapproval.
- controversies — Plural form of controversy.
- controversion — (chiefly, archaic) controversy.
- controverting — to argue against; dispute; deny; oppose.
- controvertist — a controversialist
- convalescents — Plural form of convalescent.
- convalidation — In Roman Catholic canon law, the making of a putative marriage valid following the removal of some impediment.
- conventionary — (of a form of tenure) fixed by convention as opposed to custom
- conventioneer — Conventioneers are people who are attending a convention.
- conventionist — a conventioneer
- conversations — Plural form of conversation.
- convertiplane — an aircraft that can land and take off vertically by temporarily directing its propulsive thrust downwards
- conveyor belt — A conveyor belt or a conveyor is a continuously-moving strip of rubber or metal which is used in factories for moving objects along so that they can be dealt with as quickly as possible.
- convocational — Of or pertaining to a convocation.
- convulsionist — a person who believes that major geological changes were caused by intense convulsions
- copy negative — master (def 21).
- corel ventura — (text, graphics) (Previously "Ventura Publisher") The first full-featured desktop publishing program available for the IBM personal computer and compatibles. Ventura Publisher was originally distributed by Ventura, a wholy owned subsiduary of Xerox Corporation but was acquired by Corel Corporation in September 1993.
- counteractive — to act in opposition to; frustrate by contrary action.
- countermoving — Present participle of countermove.
- countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
- country fever — malaria.
- covalent bond — a type of chemical bond involving the sharing of electrons between atoms in a molecule, esp the sharing of a pair of electrons by two adjacent atoms
- cove lighting — indirect lighting directed upward from an interior cornice or the like toward a cove at the edge of the ceiling.
- covent garden — a district of central London: famous for its former fruit, vegetable, and flower market, now a shopping precinct
- coventry bell — a perennial garden plant, Campanula trachelium, of Eurasia, having coarsely toothed leaves and bluish-purple flowers.
- cover-mounted — Cover-mounted items such as cassettes, videos and CDs are attached to the front of a magazine as free gifts.
- covert action — a secret action undertaken to influence the course of political events, as a government intelligence operation.
- coveteousness — Alternative spelling of covetousness.
- curve fitting — the determination of a curve that fits a specified set of points: The method of least squares is commonly used for curve fitting.
- cut-and-cover — designating a method of constructing a tunnel by excavating a cutting to the required depth and then backfilling the excavation over the tunnel roof
- dataveillance — the surveillance of a person's activities by studying the data trail created by actions such as credit card purchases, mobile phone calls, and internet use
- debt covenant — A debt covenant is a number of restrictions that a borrower agrees to that are set by the lending institution.
- deceptiveness — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.