9-Letter Words Starting: CURV

• A forespin pitch thrown by rotating the index and middle fingers down and resulting in motion down "curve"

• (by extension) An unexpected turn of events initiated by an opponent or chance.

• To throw a curveball.

• Of a horse or, by extension, another animal: to leap about, to frolic.

• To cause to leap about, dart or jump.

• (of a bird) To fly or swim with darting movements.

• (of a person) To prance; to caper, frolic.

• (of an object) To jump, skip, shake.

• The motion of a horse or other animal that curvets.

• (of a person) Caper, frisking, often with a nuance of flirtation.

• a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down

• perform a leap where both hind legs come off the ground, of a horse

• (medicine) a curving or bending; often abnormal

• the rate of change (at a point) of the angle between a curve and a tangent to the curve

• the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface