11-letter words containing v
- corrosively — In a corrosive manner.
- corrosivity — having the quality of corroding or eating away; erosive.
- costa brava — a coastal region of NE Spain along the Mediterranean, extending from Barcelona to the French border: many resorts
- costiveness — suffering from constipation; constipated.
- countermove — A countermove is an action that someone takes in response to an action by another person or group.
- 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.
- counterview — an opposite or opposing view
- covariation — a correlated variation
- covarrubias — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), 1904–57, Mexican caricaturist, illustrator, and painter.
- cove stripe — a decorative stripe painted along the sheer strake of a vessel, esp of a sailing boat
- 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
- cover point — a fielding position in the covers
- cover price — the price of a newspaper or magazine
- cover sheet — top page of a document
- cover story — a story that is alluded to or illustrated on the cover of a magazine
- covermounts — Plural form of covermount.
- 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
- creve coeur — a town in E Missouri.
- criminative — involving crimination; accusatory.
- cross river — a state of SE Nigeria, on the Gulf of Guinea. Capital: Calabar. Pop: 2 888 966 (2006). Area: 20 156 sq km (7782 sq miles)
- cross vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- crown vetch — a trailing leguminous European plant, Coronilla varia, with clusters of white or pink flowers: cultivated in North America as a border plant
- cruciverbal — of or relating to crosswords
- culminative — (of stress or tone accent) serving to indicate the number of independent words or the important points in an utterance by assigning prominence to one syllable in each word or close-knit group of words.
- cultivating — Present participle of cultivate.
- cultivation — the planting, tending, improving, or harvesting of crops or plants
- cultivators — Plural form of cultivator.
- culver city — a city in SW California, W of Los Angeles.
- culver hole — a hole for receiving a timber.
- culverineer — a soldier bearing a culverin
- curry favor — to try to win favor by flattery, fawning, etc.
- cursiveness — the quality of being cursive
- curvilineal — (Of a line) Having bends; curved; curvilinear.
- curvilinear — consisting of, bounded by, or characterized by a curved line
- cyberselves — Plural form of cyberself.
- d'iberville — Sieur(born Pierre Le Moyne) 1661-1706; Fr. explorer in North America
- dandy fever — (in the West Indies) dengue.
- danger cave — a deep, stratified site in the eastern Great Basin, in Utah, occupied by Amerindian cultures from at least 7000 b.c. to historic times.
- data driven — A data driven architecture/language performs computations in an order dictated by data dependencies. Two kinds of data driven computation are dataflow and demand driven. From about 1970 research in parallel data driven computation increased. Centres of excellence emerged at MIT, CERT-ONERA in France, NTT and ETL in Japan and Manchester University.
- 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)
- de seversky — Alexander P(rocofieff)1894-1974; U.S. aeronautical engineer, born in Russia