(architecture) A small recessed area set off from a larger room.
A shady retreat.
avisco
avocat
avocat
noun
An advocate, a lawyer
avocet
avocet
noun
Any of four species of wading birds in the genus Recurvirostra, of the family Recurvirostridae, with long, slender recurved bills, long legs, and webbed feet.
avouch
avouch
noun
(obsolete) evidence; declaration
verb
To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction.
To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority.
To confirm or verify, to affirm the validity of.
To declare freely and openly; to assert.
bacova
canova
carvol
carvol
noun
(organic chemistry) One of a species of aromatic oils resembling carvacrol.
cativo
cativo
noun
Prioria copaifera, a flowering tree of Central and South America.
cavort
cavort
verb
(informal) To engage in extravagant pursuits, especially of a sexual nature.
(intransitive) To move about carelessly, playfully or boisterously.
(originally intransitive, of horses) To prance, frolic, gambol.
cavour
chevon
chevon
noun
The meat of a goat.
civory
clovah
cloven
cloven
adj
Split, sundered, or divided.
verb
past participle of cleave
clover
clover
noun
(cartomancy) The second Lenormand card, representing hope, optimism and short-term luck.
A plant of the genus Trifolium with leaves usually divided into three (rarely four) leaflets and with white or red flowers.
cloves
cloves
noun
plural of clove
clovis
clovis
Proper noun
name borne by several prominent people in Frankish/French and Germanic history.
A US city in central northeastern New Mexico
A US city in California.
A particular site that contains evidence of an early Native American culture.
coeval
coeval
adj
Of the same age; contemporary.
noun
Somebody of the same age.
Something of the same era.
colove
colver
colvin
comvia
convex
convex
adj
(functional analysis, not comparable, of a real-valued function on the reals) having an epigraph that is a convex set.
(geometry, not comparable, of a polygon) having no internal angles greater than 180 degrees.
(mathematics, not comparable, of a set in Euclidean space) arranged such that for any two points in the set, a straight line between the two points is contained within the set.
Curved or bowed outward like the outside of a bowl, circle, or sphere.
noun
(gambling) A playing card made convex for use in cheating.
(gambling) A small convex mirror used to cheat by observing other players' cards.
Any convex body or surface.
convey
convey
verb
(dated) To take or carry (someone) from one place to another.
(law) To transfer legal rights (to).
(obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.
(obsolete) To manage with privacy; to carry out.
To communicate; to make known; to portray.
To move (something) from one place to another.
convoy
convoy
noun
(nautical) One or more merchant ships sailing in company to the same general destination under the protection of naval vessels.
A group of vehicles travelling together for safety, especially one with an escort.
The act of convoying; protection.
verb
(intransitive) To travel under convoy.
(transitive) To escort a group of vehicles, and provide protection.
corved
corvee
corvee
noun
Labor, especially for roads or dams, in lieu of taxes.
Unpaid labor required by a feudal lord.
corven
corver
corver
noun
(mining, historical) A person who makes corves, or coal baskets.
corves
corves
noun
plural of corf
corvet
corvet
noun
(nautical) Archaic form of corvette.
Archaic form of curvet.
corvin
corvus
corvus
noun
(historical) A grappling hook in Ancient Roman naval warfare.
(historical) A hooked ram for destroying walls.
covado
covado
noun
(historical, measure) A traditional Portuguese unit of length, usually about equal to 0.6 meters and approximating the length of a forearm and hand.
covary
covary
verb
(statistics) To vary together with another variable, particularly in a way that may be predictive
covell
covelo
covena
covens
covens
noun
plural of coven
covent
covent
noun
(obsolete) Convent.
covers
covers
noun
(cricket) The area of the field near cover and extra cover.
(cricket) The tarpaulins or other devices used to cover the wicket during rain, in order to prevent it getting wet.
(plural only) The bedclothes; collectively, the sheets, blankets, etc.
plural of cover
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cover
(ornithology) A feather that covers the bases of flight feathers.
A covering.
A disguise.
Area of thick undergrowth where animals hide.
covets
covets
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of covet
coveys
coveys
noun
plural of covey
covido
covina
covine
coving
coving
noun
(urban studies) A method of urban planning used in subdivision and redevelopment of cities characterized by non-uniform lot shapes.
A concave surface forming a junction between a ceiling and a wall.
The vertical sides connecting the jambs with the breast of a fireplace.
covins
covite
cuervo
cupavo
davoch
davoch
noun
Alternative form of daugh (“Scots land unit”)
havaco
havocs
havocs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of havoc
incavo
incavo
noun
(art) The incised part in an intaglio.
kovacs
lovich
mcevoy
nocive
nocive
adj
(archaic) Hurtful, injurious.
novcic
novcic
noun
(historical) An old coin of Montenegro, worth one hundredth of a florin.
novice
novice
noun
(religion) A new member of a religious order accepted on a conditional basis, prior to confirmation.
A beginner; one who is not very familiar or experienced in a particular subject.
novick
ochava
ochava
noun
(historical) A traditional Spanish unit of mass, equivalent to about 3.6 g.
ochavo
octavd
octave
octave
adj
(obsolete) Consisting of eight; eight in number.
noun
(Christianity) An eight-day period beginning on a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.
(Christianity) The day that is one week after a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.
(astrology) The subjective vibration of a planet.
(fencing) The eighth defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword out straight at knee level.
(mathematics, obsolete) An octonion.
(music) A coupler on an organ which allows the organist to sound the note an octave above the note of the key pressed (cf sub-octave)
(music) An interval of twelve semitones spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving in pitch frequency.
(music) The pitch an octave higher than a given pitch.
(poetry) A poetic stanza consisting of eight lines; usually used as one part of a sonnet.
(signal processing) Any of a number of coherent-noise functions of differing frequency that are added together to form Perlin noise.
verb
Alternative form of octavate
octavo
octavo
noun
(paper, printing) A sheet of paper 7 to 10 inches (= 17.78 to 25.4 cm) high and 4.5 to 6 inches (= 11.43 to 15.24 cm) wide, the size varying with the large original sheet used to create it. It is made by folding the original sheet three times to produce eight leaves.
(printing) A book of octavo pages.
ovisac
ovisac
noun
A Graafian follicle; any sac containing an ovum or ova.
The inner layer of the fibrous wall of a Graafian follicle.
ovonic
ovonic
adj
Of or relating to ovonics.
revloc
scevor
scovel
scovel
noun
(dialect) A mop for sweeping ovens.
vacona
vacoua
vacouf
vascon
vector
vector
noun
(aviation) A chosen course or direction for motion, as of an aircraft.
(computer graphics, attributive) A graphical representation using outlines; vector graphics.
(computing, operating systems) A memory address containing the address of a code entry point, usually one which is part of a table and often one that is dereferenced and jumped to during the execution of an interrupt.
(epidemiology) A carrier of a disease-causing agent.
(mathematics) A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.
(mathematics) An ordered tuple representing such.
(mathematics) Any member of a (generalized) vector space.
(molecular biology) A DNA molecule used to carry genetic information from one organism into another.
(programming) A one-dimensional array.
(psychology) A recurring psychosocial issue that stimulates growth and development in the personality.
(sociology) A person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme.
The way in which the eyes are drawn across the visual text. The trail that a book cover can encourage the eyes to follow from certain objects to others.
verb
(computing) To redirect to a vector, or code entry point.
To set (particularly an aircraft) on a course toward a selected point.
velcro
velcro
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Velcro
veloce
veloce
adv
(music) (To be played) with great rapidity.
victor
victor
noun
(international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Victor from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
The winner in a fight or contest.
vocals
vocals
noun
(music) The words of a song together with other sounds sung by a vocalist
plural of vocal
vocate
vocate
verb
(obsolete) To appoint to a religious office.
vocoid
vocoid
noun
(linguistics) A phonetic vowel, as opposed to a phonological one.
vocule
vocule
noun
(phonetics) A short or weak utterance; a faint or feeble sound, as when separating the lips in pronouncing p or b.
voiced
voiced
adj
(in combination) Having a specified kind of voice.
(phonetics) Sounded with vibration of the vocal cords. For example, the phone [z] is voiced, while [s] is unvoiced.
(signal processing, of a signal) That contains voice.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of voice
voicer
voicer
noun
(radio) A spoken report to be broadcast.
One who fits or regulates the pipes of an organ so as to produce the desired quality of sound.
One who voices something.
voices
voices
noun
plural of voice
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of voice
volcae
volcan
volcan
noun
Archaic form of volcano.
volsci
vomica
vomica
noun
(medicine) An abscess cavity in the lungs or any other parenchymal organ.