10-letter words containing v
- chernovtsy — a city in Ukraine on the Prut River: formerly under Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and Romanian rule; part of the Soviet Union (1947–91). Pop: 237 000 (2005 est)
- chervonets — (formerly) a Soviet monetary unit and gold coin worth ten roubles
- chevaliers — Plural form of chevalier.
- chevesaile — a decorative collar on an article of clothing
- chevisance — an illegal arrangement or pact
- chevrotain — any small timid ruminant artiodactyl mammal of the genera Tragulus and Hyemoschus, of S and SE Asia: family Tragulidae. They resemble rodents, and the males have long tusklike upper canines
- chivalries — Plural form of chivalry.
- chivalrous — A chivalrous man is polite, kind, and unselfish, especially towards women.
- circumvent — If someone circumvents a rule or restriction, they avoid having to obey the rule or restriction, in a clever and perhaps dishonest way.
- civic hall — a public venue, often used for recreational facilities such as sports clubs or music concerts
- civil list — The Civil List is money paid by the state every year to members of the British Royal Family to cover their living expenses.
- civil year — calendar year
- civilising — Present participle of civilise.
- civilities — Plural form of civility.
- civilizers — Plural form of civilizer.
- civilizing — bringing a higher state of culture and social development
- clavichord — A clavichord is a musical instrument rather like a small piano. When you press the keys, small pieces of metal come up and hit the strings. Clavichords were especially popular during the eighteenth century.
- clavicular — a bone of the pectoral arch.
- clavierist — a person who plays the clavier
- clement iv — (Guy Foulques) died 1268, French ecclesiastic: pope 1265–68.
- clement vi — (Pierre Roger) 1291–1352, French ecclesiastic: pope 1342–52.
- cleverness — mentally bright; having sharp or quick intelligence; able.
- cloud over — If the sky clouds over, it becomes covered with clouds.
- clove pink — carnation (sense 1)
- clover key — feature key
- cloverleaf — A cloverleaf is an arrangement of curved roads, resembling a four-leaf clover, that joins two main roads.
- co-venture — a business project or enterprise undertaken jointly by two or more companies, each sharing in the capitalization and in any profits or losses.
- coacervate — either of two liquid phases that may separate from a hydrophilic sol, each containing a different concentration of a dispersed solid
- coactivate — To cause, or to undergo coactivation.
- coactivity — acting together.
- coadjuvant — Cooperating.
- coalheaver — One who feeds coal into a furnace.
- codiscover — to discover jointly
- coercitive — Obsolete form of coercive.
- coercively — serving or tending to coerce.
- coercivity — the magnetic-field strength necessary to demagnetize a ferromagnetic material that is magnetized to saturation. It is measured in amperes per metre
- cofavorite — a joint favourite
- cogitative — capable of thinking
- 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.