10-letter words containing v, a, c
- caritative — charity.
- carnivores — an animal that eats flesh.
- carry over — If something carries over or is carried over from one situation to another, it continues to exist or apply in the new situation.
- carry-over — that which is carried over, postponed, or extended to a later time, account, etc.
- 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)
- catenative — Denoting a verb that governs a nonfinite form of another verb, for example, like in I like swimming.
- causatives — Plural form of causative.
- cavalcades — Plural form of cavalcade.
- cavalcanti — Guido (ˈɡwiːdo). ?1255–1300, Italian poet, noted for his love poems
- cavalierly — a horseman, especially a mounted soldier; knight.
- cavalryman — A cavalryman is a soldier who is in the cavalry, especially one who rides a horse.
- cavalrymen — a soldier in the cavalry.
- cavaquinho — A small, four-stringed guitar resembling a ukulele, popular in Brazil and Portugal.
- cave canem — beware the dog
- cavilation — Alternative spelling of cavillation.
- 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.
- cavitating — Present participle of cavitate.
- cavitation — the formation of vapour- or gas-filled cavities in a flowing liquid when tensile stress is superimposed on the ambient pressure
- 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.
- changeover — A changeover is a change from one activity or system to another.
- 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.
- chavelling — Present participle of chavel.
- chavtastic — suitable for or designed for chavs
- chekhovian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Anton Chekhov or his writings, especially as they are evocative of a mood of introspection and frustration.
- chevaliers — Plural form of chevalier.
- chevesaile — a decorative collar on an article of clothing
- chevisance — an illegal arrangement or pact
- chevrotain — any small timid ruminant artiodactyl mammal of the genera Tragulus and Hyemoschus, of S and SE Asia: family Tragulidae. They resemble rodents, and the males have long tusklike upper canines
- chivalries — Plural form of chivalry.
- chivalrous — A chivalrous man is polite, kind, and unselfish, especially towards women.
- civic hall — a public venue, often used for recreational facilities such as sports clubs or music concerts
- civil year — calendar year
- clavichord — A clavichord is a musical instrument rather like a small piano. When you press the keys, small pieces of metal come up and hit the strings. Clavichords were especially popular during the eighteenth century.
- clavicular — a bone of the pectoral arch.
- clavierist — a person who plays the clavier
- cloverleaf — A cloverleaf is an arrangement of curved roads, resembling a four-leaf clover, that joins two main roads.
- coacervate — either of two liquid phases that may separate from a hydrophilic sol, each containing a different concentration of a dispersed solid
- coactivate — To cause, or to undergo coactivation.
- coactivity — acting together.
- coadjuvant — Cooperating.
- coalheaver — One who feeds coal into a furnace.
- cofavorite — a joint favourite