A channel crossing under a road or railway for the draining of water.
verb
To channel (a stream of water) through a culvert.
curvant
curvate
curvate
adj
bent in a regular form; curved
curvets
curvets
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of curvet
curvity
curvity
noun
The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness.
cutover
cutover
adj
Having been cleared of valuable timber.
noun
(by extension) Any process of quickly replacing a machine so as to minimize downtime.
An area of cutover land.
The discontinuity that occurs when switching from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
The process of quickly replacing a telephone switchboard, in which the connections are duplicated to the new machine and the original connections are then suddenly disconnected.
cuvette
cuvette
noun
(analytical chemistry) a small vessel with at least two flat and transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of a spectrometer
(military) a cunette
a pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table
an inner lid of a timepiece
octavus
overcut
overcut
adj
(participial adjective) Excessively cut.
noun
(motor racing) A pit stop strategy in which a driver seeks to gain an advantage over someone else by pitting after them and running in clean air to make up time.
An opening resulting from such cutting; an extreme incision or wound.
The act or result of excessive cutting.
verb
(transitive) To cut excessively.
oviduct
oviduct
noun
(anatomy) A duct through which an ovum passes from an ovary to the uterus or to the exterior.
uveitic
uveitic
adj
Relating to uveitis.
vacatur
vacatur
noun
(law) An announcement in court that something is cancelled or set aside; an annulment.
vacuate
vacuate
verb
To empty; to clear out.
vacuist
vacuist
noun
(philosophy) One who holds the doctrine that the space between the bodies of the universe, or the molecules and atoms of matter, is a vacuum.
vacuity
vacuity
noun
An empty or inane remark or thing.
Idleness; listlessness.
Physical emptiness, an absence of matter; vacuum.
vecture
vecture
noun
(obsolete) The act of carrying; conveyance; carriage.
viaduct
viaduct
noun
(transport) A bridge with several spans that carries road or rail traffic over a valley or other obstacles.
victual
victual
noun
(Scotland) Grain of any kind.
(archaic) Food fit for human (or occasionally animal) consumption.
(archaic, chiefly in the plural) Food supplies; provisions.
Edible plants.
verb
(intransitive) To eat.
(intransitive, chiefly military, nautical) To lay in or procure food supplies.
(transitive, reflexive, chiefly military, nautical) To provide (military troops, a place, a ship, etc., or oneself) with a stock of victuals or food; to provision.