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10-letter words containing v, e, r

  • book lover — a person who enjoys reading and reads more than the average person
  • bookviewer — A hypertext documentation system from Oracle based on Oracle Toolkit. It allows the user to create private links and bookmarks, and to make multimedia annotations.
  • bovver boy — a rowdy youth
  • box clever — to behave in a careful and cunning way
  • braaivleis — a picnic at which meat is cooked over an open fire; a barbecue
  • brain wave — any of the fluctuations of electrical potential in the brain as represented on an electroencephalogram. They vary in frequency from 1 to 30 hertz
  • break even — to attain a level of activity, as in commerce, or a point of operation, as in gambling, at which there is neither profit nor loss
  • break-even — having income exactly equal to expenditure, thus showing neither profit nor loss.
  • bridalveil — a waterfall in Yosemite National Park, California. 620 feet (189 meters) high.
  • bring over — to cause (a person) to change allegiances
  • brockville — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
  • bromsgrove — a town in W central England, in N Worcestershire. Pop: 29 237 (2001)
  • brookhaven — a town in SW Mississippi.
  • buck fever — nervous excitement felt by inexperienced hunters at the approach of game
  • bur clover — any of several Eurasian legumes of the genus Medicago, as M. hispida, having yellow flowers and prickly, coiled, black pods, naturalized in North America.
  • burnsville — a city in SE Minnesota.
  • cabo verde — a republic in the Atlantic off the coast of West Africa, consisting of a group of ten islands and five islets: an overseas territory of Portugal until 1975, when the islands became independent. Official language: Portuguese. Religion: Christian (Roman Catholic) majority; animist minority. Currency: Cape Verdean escudo. Capital: Praia. Pop: 531 046 (2013 est). Area: 4033 sq km (1557 sq miles)
  • cadaverine — a toxic diamine with an unpleasant smell, produced by protein hydrolysis during putrefaction of animal tissue. Formula: NH2(CH2)5NH2
  • cadaverous — If you describe someone as cadaverous, you mean they are extremely thin and pale.
  • caernarvon — a seaport in W Gwynedd, in NW Wales, on Menai Strait: 13th-century castle of Edward II.
  • calaverite — a metallic pale yellow mineral consisting of a telluride of gold in the form of elongated striated crystals. It is a source of gold in Australia and North America. Formula: AuTe2
  • camper van — A camper van is a van which is equipped with beds and cooking equipment so that you can live, cook, and sleep in it.
  • cantalever — any rigid structural member projecting from a vertical support, especially one in which the projection is great in relation to the depth, so that the upper part is in tension and the lower part in compression.
  • cantilever — A cantilever is a long piece of metal or wood used in a structure such as a bridge. One end is fastened to something and the other end is used to support part of the structure.
  • canvassers — Plural form of canvasser.
  • cape verde — a cape in Senegal, near Dakar: the westernmost point of Africa
  • caravaneer — the person leading a caravan of camels
  • caravaners — Also, caravaneer, C01/C0128700 kar-uh-va-neer, ˌkær ə væˈnɪər. a leader of a caravan. a person who travels or lives in a caravan.
  • caravanned — a group of travelers, as merchants or pilgrims, journeying together for safety in passing through deserts, hostile territory, etc.
  • caravanner — someone who uses a caravan
  • caregivers — Plural form of caregiver.
  • caregiving — the practice of providing care for a vulnerable neighbour or relative
  • 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.
  • cavalierly — a horseman, especially a mounted soldier; knight.
  • cavalrymen — a soldier in the cavalry.
  • 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.
  • cerevisiae — (informal) The species Saccharomyces cerevisiae, or brewer's yeast.
  • cerf, vint — Vint Cerf
  • cervicitis — inflammation of the neck of the uterus
  • 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
  • check over — a thorough examination or investigation.
  • check-over — a thorough examination or investigation.
  • cher-river — a river in central France, flowing NW to the Loire River. 220 miles (355 km) long.
  • chernovtsy — a city in Ukraine on the Prut River: formerly under Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and Romanian rule; part of the Soviet Union (1947–91). Pop: 237 000 (2005 est)
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