10-letter words containing v, o
- cohesively — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
- cohibitive — restrictive
- coinventor — a fellow inventor
- coinvestor — a fellow investor
- collective — Collective actions, situations, or feelings involve or are shared by every member of a group of people.
- combustive — the act or process of burning.
- come alive — If people, places, or events come alive, they start to be lively again after a quiet period. If someone or something brings them alive, they cause them to come alive.
- comitative — (of a case) expressing accompaniment
- commissive — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
- completive — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- compluvium — an unroofed space over the atrium in a Roman house, through which rain fell and was collected
- compu$erve — (Or "CompuSpend", "Compu$pend") A pejorative name for CompuServe Information Service (CI$) drawing attention to perceived high charges.
- compulsive — You use compulsive to describe people or their behaviour when they cannot stop doing something wrong, harmful, or unnecessary.
- compuserve — CompuServe Information Service
- conceiving — Present participle of conceive.
- conceptive — having the power of mental conception
- concessive — implying or involving concession; tending to concede
- conclavism — a minority movement (and the beliefs of certain Traditionalist Catholics) that rejects the authority of the established pope and instead supports an alternative pope
- conclavist — either of two persons who attend upon a cardinal at a conclave, one usually being an ecclesiastical secretary and the other a personal servant.
- conclusive — Conclusive evidence shows that something is certainly true.
- concoctive — Of or pertaining to digestion; digestive.
- concretive — constituting an actual thing or instance; real: a concrete proof of his sincerity.
- concussive — Pathology. injury to the brain or spinal cord due to jarring from a blow, fall, or the like.
- conductive — A conductive substance is able to conduct things such as heat and electricity.
- congestive — A congestive disease is a medical condition where a part of the body becomes blocked.
- connective — A connective is the same as a conjunction.
- connivance — Connivance is a willingness to allow or assist something to happen even though you know it is wrong.
- connivancy — connivance
- connivence — the act of conniving.
- connivency — connivance
- conservant — having the quality of conserving or preserving
- conservate — (dated, transitive) To conserve.
- conserving — Present participle of conserve.
- constative — (of a statement) able to be true or false
- consultive — of or relating to consultation; advisory.
- contentive — a content word or a morpheme that is the root of a content word. Compare functor (def 2).
- contortive — characterized by, tending toward, or causing contortions or twisting: contortive movements; contortive pain; contortive alleyways.
- contravene — To contravene a law or rule means to do something that is forbidden by the law or rule.
- contrivers — Plural form of contriver.
- contriving — to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot.
- controvert — to deny, refute, or oppose (some argument or opinion)
- convalesce — If you are convalescing, you are resting and getting your health back after an illness or operation.
- convecting — Transport (heat or material) by convection.
- convection — Convection is the process by which heat travels through air, water, and other gases and liquids.
- convective — physics: transferring heat, etc.
- convectors — Plural form of convector.
- convenable — proper or correct in behaviour or conduct
- convenance — suitable behaviour; propriety
- convenient — If a way of doing something is convenient, it is easy, or very useful or suitable for a particular purpose.
- convention — A convention is a way of behaving that is considered to be correct or polite by most people in a society.