10-letter words containing v
- 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.
- conventual — of, belonging to, or characteristic of a convent
- convergent — (of two or more lines, paths, etc) moving towards or meeting at some common point
- converging — to tend to meet in a point or line; incline toward each other, as lines that are not parallel.
- conversant — If you are conversant with something, you are familiar with it and able to deal with it.
- conversate — to have a conversation; converse; talk.
- conversely — You say conversely to indicate that the situation you are about to describe is the opposite or reverse of the one you have just described.
- conversing — to talk informally with another or others; exchange views, opinions, etc., by talking.
- conversion — Conversion is the act or process of changing something into a different state or form.
- convertend — the proposition to be subjected to conversion
- converters — Plural form of converter.
- converting — Present participle of convert.
- convertion — Misspelling of conversion.