10-letter words containing v, a, c
- provenance — place or source of origin: The provenance of the ancient manuscript has never been determined.
- provencale — (sometimes lowercase) cooked, usually in olive oil, with garlic, tomatoes, onions, and herbs.
- provincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- purveyance — the act of purveying.
- reactivate — to render active again; revive.
- reactively — tending to react.
- reactivity — the quality or condition of being reactive.
- receivable — fit for acceptance; acceptable.
- recidivate — to engage in recidivism; relapse.
- recitative — of the nature of or resembling recitation or declamation.
- recitativo — recitative2 .
- recreative — to refresh by means of relaxation and enjoyment, as restore physically or mentally.
- refractive — of or relating to refraction.
- retractive — tending or serving to retract.
- revanchism — an advocate or supporter of a political policy of revanche, especially in order to seek vengeance for a previous military defeat.
- revanchist — an advocate or supporter of a political policy of revanche, especially in order to seek vengeance for a previous military defeat.
- revocation — the act of revoking; annulment.
- revocatory — revoking or tending to revoke; containing or expressing a revocation
- riaa curve — a graphical representation, adopted as a worldwide standard, of the amplitude in relation to frequency response required for correct reproduction of microgroove disc recordings, compensating for the characteristics of the recording process
- rivercraft — a small vessel which is used to travel on rivers
- riverscape — a view, painting, etc., of a river and the land surrounding or adjacent to it.
- salvifical — saving
- saxicavous — (of molluscs) tending to bore holes or hollow out rocks
- scavengers — an animal or other organism that feeds on dead organic matter.
- scavenging — to take or gather (something usable) from discarded material.
- scuba dive — go deep-sea swimming
- scuba-dive — to descend and swim underwater using a scuba device.
- seat cover — a cover for a seat
- serviceman — a member of the armed forces of a country.
- shock wave — a region of abrupt change of pressure and density moving as a wave front at or above the velocity of sound, caused by an intense explosion or supersonic flow over a body.
- sick leave — leave from duty, work, or the like, granted because of illness.
- silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
- slactivism — the public proclaiming of one's political beliefs through activities that require little effort or commitment
- slavocracy — the rule or domination of slaveholders: the slavocracy of the old plantations.
- stavesacre — a larkspur, Delphinium staphisagria, of Europe and Asia Minor, having violently emetic and cathartic poisonous seeds.
- stove coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 5/8 to 2 7/16 (about 4 to 6 cm), intermediate between egg coal and chestnut coal.
- subclavate — somewhat club-shaped.
- subclavian — situated or extending beneath the clavicle, as certain arteries or veins.
- subclavius — a small shoulder muscle, the action of which assists in depressing the shoulder.
- subvocally — in a subvocal manner, with subvocalization
- surveyance — survey; inspection; superintendence
- survivance — survival
- take cover — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
- the canvas — the floor of a boxing or wrestling ring
- tovarishch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- traductive — able to be deduced or transmitted
- travancore — a former state in SW India: merged 1949 with Cochin to form a new state (Travancore and Cochin) reorganized 1956 to form the larger part of Kerala state.
- tsarevitch — the son of a czar.
- tzarevitch — czarevitch
- ulcerative — causing ulceration.