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10-letter words containing v, i, b

  • blue-devil — blue heaven.
  • bog spavin — enlargement of the hock of a horse by accumulation in the joint, usually caused by inflammation or injury, and often resulting in lameness
  • bolsheviks — a member of the more radical majority of the Social Democratic Party, 1903–17, advocating immediate and forceful seizure of power by the proletariat. (after 1918) a member of the Russian Communist Party.
  • bolshevism — Bolshevism is the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
  • bolshevist — a follower or advocate of the doctrines or methods of the Bolsheviks.
  • bolshevize — to bring into line with Communist ideology
  • bon vivant — a person who enjoys luxuries, esp good food and drink
  • boniface v — died a.d. 625, pope 619–625.
  • bonnevilleLake, a prehistoric lake in Utah, E Nevada, and S Idaho: Great Salt Lake is its remnant. 350 miles (564 km) long.
  • 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.
  • boot virus — An MS-DOS virus that infects the boot record program on hard disks and floppy disks or the master boot record on hard disks. The virus gets loaded into memory before MS-DOS and takes control of the computer, infecting any floppy disks subsequently accessed. An infected boot disk may stop the computer starting up at all.
  • boston ivy — a climbing vine (Parthenocissus tricuspidata) of the grape family, native to Japan and China, having shield-shaped leaves and purple berries: often grown to cover walls
  • bovaristic — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
  • 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
  • bratislava — the capital of Slovakia since 1918, a port on the River Danube; capital of Hungary (1541–1784) and seat of the Hungarian parliament until 1848. Pop: 428 672 (2001)
  • bravissimo — very well done! excellent!
  • 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.
  • burnsville — a city in SE Minnesota.
  • cohibitive — restrictive
  • combustive — the act or process of burning.
  • courbevoie — an industrial suburb of Paris, on the Seine. Pop: 85 716 (2006)
  • cultivable — (of land) capable of being cultivated
  • deceivable — capable of being deceived; gullible.
  • deprivable — Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived.
  • devil book — (publication)   "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD Unix Operating System", by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels, and John S. Quarterman (Addison-Wesley Publishers, 1989, ISBN 0-201-06196-1). The standard reference book on the internals of BSD Unix. So called because the cover has a picture depicting a little devil (a visual play on daemon) in sneakers, holding a pitchfork (referring to one of the characteristic features of Unix, the "fork(2)" system call).
  • disbelieve — to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
  • dive brake — a flap deployed from the wings or fuselage of an aircraft, as a dive bomber or sailplane, that increases drag to permit a relatively steep angle of descent without a dangerous buildup in speed.
  • dive table — Often, dive tables. a numerical table used by scuba divers to determine time limits of dives, according to depth, as well as possible decompression delays during ascent and requisite surface intervals between dives.
  • divertible — to turn aside or from a path or course; deflect.
  • divestible — capable of being divested, as an estate in land.
  • dubitative — doubting; doubtful.
  • exhibitive — Serving for exhibition; representative.
  • forgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
  • forgivably — In a forgivable way.
  • give birth — have a baby
  • herbivores — Plural form of herbivore.
  • immovables — Plural form of immovable.
  • immoveable — Alternative spelling of immovable.
  • improvable — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
  • incubative — Of or pertaining to incubation.
  • inevasible — Incapable of being evaded.
  • inevitable — unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary: an inevitable conclusion.
  • inevitably — unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary: an inevitable conclusion.
  • inhibitive — to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
  • insolvable — incapable of being solved or explained; insoluble.
  • invaluable — beyond calculable or appraisable value; of inestimable worth; priceless: an invaluable art collection; her invaluable assistance.
  • invaluably — beyond calculable or appraisable value; of inestimable worth; priceless: an invaluable art collection; her invaluable assistance.
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