10-letter words containing v, e, c
- floorcover — material, especially a nonfabric material, as linoleum, vinyl tile, or ceramic tile, used to cover a floor.
- fricatives — Plural form of fricative.
- give chase — to pursue in order to seize, overtake, etc.: The police officer chased the thief.
- give place — to make room
- governance — information technology governance
- grievances — Plural form of grievance.
- grove city — a town in central Ohio.
- 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.")
- 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
- hicksville — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- hop clover — a trefoil, Trifolium campestre, having withered, yellow flowers that resemble the strobiles of a hop.
- hovercraft — ACV.
- hypoactive — Less than normally active.
- in advance — to move or bring forward: The general advanced his troops to the new position.
- in-service — taking place while one is employed: an in-service training program.
- inactivate — to make inactive: The bomb was inactivated.
- inactively — In an inactive manner.
- incentives — Plural form of incentive.
- inchoative — inceptive.
- incisively — penetrating; cutting; biting; trenchant: an incisive tone of voice.
- incitative — an agent which incites or is capable of inciting or rousing; a stimulant
- incohesive — Not cohesive.
- incubative — Of or pertaining to incubation.
- incurvated — Simple past tense and past participle of incurvate.
- indecisive — characterized by indecision, as persons; irresolute; undecided.
- indicative — showing, signifying, or pointing out; expressive or suggestive (usually followed by of): behavior indicative of mental disorder.
- inflective — to modulate (the voice).
- inflictive — Of, pertaining to or causing infliction.
- injunctive — Law. a judicial process or order requiring the person or persons to whom it is directed to do a particular act or to refrain from doing a particular act.
- innocent v — (Pierre de Tarentaise) c1225–76, French ecclesiastic: pope 1276.
- insolvency — the condition of being insolvent; bankruptcy.
- inspective — given to inspection; watchful; attentive.
- invariance — The property of being invariant.
- invectives — vehement or violent denunciation, censure, or reproach.
- inveracity — untruthfulness; mendacity.
- inverclyde — a council area of W central Scotland: created in 1996 from part of Strathclyde region. Administrative centre: Greenock. Pop: 83 050 (2003 est). Area: 162 sq km (63 sq miles)
- inveteracy — the quality or state of being inveterate or deeply ingrained: the inveteracy of people's prejudices.
- invincible — incapable of being conquered, defeated, or subdued.
- inviscated — Simple past tense and past participle of inviscate.
- invocative — invoke.
- involucred — (botany) Having an involucre.
- involucres — Plural form of involucre.
- ivermectin — a drug that kills parasitic nematode worms, mites, and insects. It is used to treat a variety of parasitic infections in domestic animals and onchocerciasis in humans
- jackknives — Plural form of jackknife.
- jovysaunce — joy
- judicative — having ability to judge; judging: the judicative faculty.
- jus civile — the rules and principles of law derived from the customs and legislation of Rome, as opposed to those derived from the customs of all nations (jus gentium) or from fundamental ideas of right and wrong implicit in the human mind (jus naturale)