10-letter words containing v, a, c
- cogitative — capable of thinking
- come alive — If people, places, or events come alive, they start to be lively again after a quiet period. If someone or something brings them alive, they cause them to come alive.
- comitative — (of a case) expressing accompaniment
- 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.
- connivance — Connivance is a willingness to allow or assist something to happen even though you know it is wrong.
- connivancy — connivance
- conservant — having the quality of conserving or preserving
- conservate — (dated, transitive) To conserve.
- constative — (of a statement) able to be true or false
- contravene — To contravene a law or rule means to do something that is forbidden by the law or rule.
- convalesce — If you are convalescing, you are resting and getting your health back after an illness or operation.
- convenable — proper or correct in behaviour or conduct
- convenance — suitable behaviour; propriety
- conventual — of, belonging to, or characteristic of a convent
- 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.
- conveyable — to carry, bring, or take from one place to another; transport; bear.
- conveyance — A conveyance is a vehicle.
- convocated — Simple past tense and past participle of convocate.
- convocator — a person who convokes a meeting.
- convulsant — producing convulsions
- cooptative — to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- copulative — serving to join or unite
- coq au vin — chicken stewed with red wine, onions, etc
- coral vine — a Mexican climbing vine, Antigonon leptopus, of the buckwheat family, having arrow- or heart-shaped leaves and pink or white flowers.
- corelative — correlative
- covalently — the number of electron pairs that an atom can share with other atoms.
- covariance — a measure of the association between two random variables, equal to the expected value of the product of the deviations from the mean of the two variables, and estimated by the sum of products of deviations from the sample mean for associated values of the two variables, divided by the number of sample points. Written as Cov (X, Y)
- covariates — Plural form of covariate.
- covenantal — an agreement, usually formal, between two or more persons to do or not do something specified.
- covenanted — an agreement, usually formal, between two or more persons to do or not do something specified.
- covenantee — the person to whom the promise in a covenant is made
- covenanter — a person upholding the National Covenant of 1638 or the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643 between Scotland and England to establish and defend Presbyterianism
- covenantor — a party who makes a promise and who is to perform the obligation expressed in a covenant
- coventrate — To devastate by heavy bombing.
- cover band — a band that makes or performs cover versions of songs
- coveralled — wearing coveralls
- 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
- crevassing — Present participle of crevasse.
- crime wave — When more crimes than usual are committed in a particular place, you can refer to this as a crime wave.
- cuernavaca — a city in S central Mexico, capital of Morelos state: resort with nearby Cacahuamilpa Caverns. Pop: 723 000 (2005 est)
- cultivable — (of land) capable of being cultivated
- cultivated — If you describe someone as cultivated, you mean they are well educated and have good manners.
- cultivates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cultivate.
- 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.