13-letter words containing v, i, r
- circumvallate — to surround with a defensive fortification
- circumventing — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- circumvention — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- circumvolving — Present participle of circumvolve.
- civil liberty — the right of an individual to certain freedoms of speech and action
- civil righter — a civil rightist.
- civil servant — A civil servant is a person who works in the Civil Service in Britain and some other countries, or for the local, state, or federal government in the United States.
- civil service — The Civil Service of a country consists of its government departments and all the people who work in them. In many countries, the departments concerned with military and legal affairs are not part of the Civil Service.
- clairvoyantly — In a clairvoyant way; by means of clairvoyance.
- clavichordist — Someone who plays the clavichord.
- client-server — (programming) A common form of distributed system in which software is split between server tasks and client tasks. A client sends requests to a server, according to some protocol, asking for information or action, and the server responds. This is analogous to a customer (client) who sends an order (request) on an order form to a supplier (server) who despatches the goods and an invoice (response). The order form and invoice are part of the "protocol" used to communicate in this case. There may be either one centralised server or several distributed ones. This model allows clients and servers to be placed independently on nodes in a network, possibly on different hardware and operating systems appropriate to their function, e.g. fast server/cheap client. Examples are the name-server/name-resolver relationship in DNS, the file-server/file-client relationship in NFS and the screen server/client application split in the X Window System.
- clishmaclaver — idle talk; gossip
- cod-liver oil — Cod liver oil is a thick yellow oil which is given as a medicine, especially to children, because it is full of vitamins A and D.
- collaborative — A collaborative piece of work is done by two or more people or groups working together.
- commemorative — A commemorative object or event is intended to make people remember a particular event or person.
- commiserative — to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity.
- comparatively — in a comparative manner
- comparativist — a comparatist
- comprehensive — Something that is comprehensive includes everything that is needed or relevant.
- comprovincial — belonging to the same province
- concentrative — tending to concentrate; characterized by concentration
- confederative — of confederates or a confederation
- configurative — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
- conflagrative — That produces conflagration.
- confrontative — tending toward or ready for confrontation: They came to the meeting with a confrontational attitude.
- conservancies — Plural form of conservancy.
- conservatives — Plural form of conservative.
- conservatized — Simple past tense and past participle of conservatize.
- conservatoire — A conservatoire is an institution where musicians are trained.
- conservatoria — Plural form of conservatorium.
- considerative — considerate
- contraceptive — A contraceptive method or device is a method or a device which a woman uses to prevent herself from becoming pregnant.
- contradictive — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
- contrafactive — Denoting a verb that assigns to its object (normally a clausal object) the status of not being true, e.g., pretend and wish.
- contragestive — able to prevent gestation
- contragravity — (scifi) antigravity.
- contrastively — tending to contrast; contrasting. contrastive colors.
- contravariant — (category theory, of a functor) which reverses composition.
- contravention — an act of contravening; action counter to something; violation or opposition.
- contraversial — Misspelling of controversial.
- contraversion — A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe.
- controversial — If you describe something or someone as controversial, you mean that they are the subject of intense public argument, disagreement, or disapproval.
- controversies — Plural form of controversy.
- controversion — (chiefly, archaic) controversy.
- controverting — to argue against; dispute; deny; oppose.
- controvertist — a controversialist
- conventionary — (of a form of tenure) fixed by convention as opposed to custom
- conventioneer — Conventioneers are people who are attending a convention.
- conversations — Plural form of conversation.
- conversazione — a social gathering for discussion of the arts, literature, etc