10-letter words containing v, a, c
- give place — to make room
- governance — information technology governance
- gravitonic — Relating to gravitons.
- grievances — Plural form of grievance.
- hack value — Often adduced as the reason or motivation for expending effort toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being that the accomplished goal is a hack. For example, MacLISP had features for reading and printing Roman numerals, which were installed purely for hack value. See display hack for one method of computing hack value, but this cannot really be explained, only experienced. As Louis Armstrong once said when asked to explain jazz: "Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know." (Feminists please note Fats Waller's explanation of rhythm: "Lady, if you got to ask you ain't got it.")
- hacktivism — the practice of gaining unauthorized access to a computer system and carrying out various disruptive actions as a means of achieving political or social goals: In this form of hacktivism, the hacker tries to alter or deface a government website.
- hacktivist — the practice of gaining unauthorized access to a computer system and carrying out various disruptive actions as a means of achieving political or social goals: In this form of hacktivism, the hacker tries to alter or deface a government website.
- hardcovers — Plural form of hardcover.
- have a cow — become angry or upset
- haversacks — Plural form of haversack.
- head voice — the high register of the human voice, in which the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head
- hovercraft — ACV.
- hypoactive — Less than normally active.
- in advance — to move or bring forward: The general advanced his troops to the new position.
- inactivate — to make inactive: The bomb was inactivated.
- inactively — In an inactive manner.
- inactivity — not active: an inactive volcano.
- inchoative — inceptive.
- incitative — an agent which incites or is capable of inciting or rousing; a stimulant
- incubative — Of or pertaining to incubation.
- incurvated — Simple past tense and past participle of incurvate.
- indicative — showing, signifying, or pointing out; expressive or suggestive (usually followed by of): behavior indicative of mental disorder.
- invariance — The property of being invariant.
- inveracity — untruthfulness; mendacity.
- inveteracy — the quality or state of being inveterate or deeply ingrained: the inveteracy of people's prejudices.
- inviscated — Simple past tense and past participle of inviscate.
- invocating — invoke.
- invocation — the act of invoking or calling upon a deity, spirit, etc., for aid, protection, inspiration, or the like; supplication.
- invocative — invoke.
- invocatory — the act of invoking or calling upon a deity, spirit, etc., for aid, protection, inspiration, or the like; supplication.
- involucral — Pertaining to, possessing, or like, an involucrum.
- jackknives — Plural form of jackknife.
- java finch — a finchlike weaverbird, Padda oryzivora, of southeastern Asia, having gray plumage tinged with pink on the belly, often kept as a cage bird.
- javascript — Alternative capitalization of JavaScript.
- jovysaunce — joy
- judicative — having ability to judge; judging: the judicative faculty.
- kragujevac — a town in E central Serbia; capital of Serbia (1818–39); automobile industry. Pop: 145 890 (2002)
- lacerative — Lacerating, or having the power to lacerate.
- larvacidal — Alternative spelling of larvicidal.
- larvicidal — an agent for killing larvae.
- larvicides — Plural form of larvicide.
- lascivious — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- laviscious — (nonstandard) Lascivious.
- lilliac iv — (computer) A supercomputer designed in the late 1960s at the University of Illinois which had 64 separate CPUs all supervised by a common control unit and all capable of operating simultaneously.
- loch raven — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- love match — a marriage entered into for love alone.
- lucerative — Misspelling of lucrative.
- macrolevel — at or on a level that is large in scale or scope: macrolevel research on crime rates in urban areas.
- malvaceous — belonging to the Malvaceae, the mallow family of plants.
- medicative — medicinal.