11-letter words containing v, o, a
- convivially — friendly; agreeable: a convivial atmosphere.
- convocating — Present participle of convocate.
- convocation — A convocation is a meeting or ceremony attended by a large number of people.
- convulsants — Plural form of convulsant.
- cooperative — A cooperative is a business or organization run by the people who work for it, or owned by the people who use it. These people share its benefits and profits.
- corivalship — the state of being mutual rivals
- coronavirus — a type of airborne virus accounting for 10-30% of all colds
- corporative — of or characteristic of a corporation
- correlative — If one thing is a correlative of another, the first thing is caused by the second thing, or occurs together with it.
- costa brava — a coastal region of NE Spain along the Mediterranean, extending from Barcelona to the French border: many resorts
- countervail — to act or act against with equal power or force
- countervair — (heraldry) A heraldic fur resembling vair, except in the arrangement of the patches or figures.
- covariation — a correlated variation
- covarrubias — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), 1904–57, Mexican caricaturist, illustrator, and painter.
- covenanters — Plural form of covenanter.
- covenanting — Present participle of covenant.
- covenantors — Plural form of covenantor.
- cover glass — a thin square of mounted glass used to protect a photographic slide
- covert coat — a short topcoat worn for hunting
- cowansville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- crab-plover — a black and white wading bird, Dromas ardeola, of the northern and western shores of the Indian Ocean.
- cracovienne — a fast dance from the Krakow region of Poland which became popular in Paris during the 19th century
- cross vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- cultivation — the planting, tending, improving, or harvesting of crops or plants
- cultivators — Plural form of cultivator.
- curry favor — to try to win favor by flattery, fawning, etc.
- dative bond — coordinate bond
- dative-bond — a type of covalent bond between two atoms in which the bonding electrons are supplied by one of the two atoms.
- de beauvoir — Simone (simɔn). 1908–86, French existentialist novelist and feminist, whose works include Le Sang des autres (1944), Le Deuxième Sexe (1949), and Les Mandarins (1954)
- deactivator — Any device used to deactivate something.
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- deformative — making worse by alteration
- demotivated — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- demotivator — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- demy octavo — a book size, 81⁄2 by 51⁄2 inches
- denervation — to cut off the nerve supply from (an organ or body part) by surgery or anesthetic block.
- depravation — to make morally bad or evil; vitiate; corrupt.
- deprivation — If you suffer deprivation, you do not have or are prevented from having something that you want or need.
- derivations — Plural form of derivation.
- devaluation — a decrease in the exchange value of a currency against gold or other currencies, brought about by a government
- devastation — Devastation is severe and widespread destruction or damage.
- devastators — Plural form of devastator.
- developable — Able to be developed, in particular.
- devocalized — Simple past tense and past participle of devocalize.
- devotionals — Plural form of devotional.
- diapositive — a positive transparency; slide
- dis-favored — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- disapproval — the act or state of disapproving; a condemnatory feeling, look, or utterance; censure: stern disapproval.
- disapproved — Simple past tense and past participle of disapprove.
- disapprover — One who disapproves.