12-letter words containing a, c, e, s, i, v
- inobservance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- intravesical — Within the urinary bladder.
- irrelevances — Plural form of irrelevance.
- jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
- kelvin scale — William Thomson, 1st Baron, 1824–1907, English physicist and mathematician.
- living space — home: rooms, etc.
- maid service — cleaner, cleaning business
- manu-service — denoting a business that involves both the manufacture of goods and the provision of after-sales services
- negativistic — a negative or pessimistic attitude.
- no vacancies — No vacancies is used on a notice at a hotel or guest house when there are no rooms available to rent.
- noncausative — Not causative.
- overcautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
- overclassify — to classify to excess
- overissuance — the act of issuing in excessive amounts
- perivisceral — surrounding or situated about the viscera.
- perspectival — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
- pervicacious — extremely willful; obstinate; stubborn.
- psychoactive — of or relating to a substance having a profound or significant effect on mental processes: a psychoactive drug.
- reactiveness — tending to react.
- reactivities — the quality or condition of being reactive.
- relativistic — of or relating to relativity or relativism.
- salk vaccine — a vaccine that contains three types of inactivated poliomyelitis viruses and induces immunity against the disease.
- saving grace — a quality that makes up for other generally negative characteristics; redeeming feature.
- scavengering — scavenging
- scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder
- scrive board — a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.
- security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
- seismic wave — a wave of energy that is generated by an earthquake or other earth vibration and that travels within the earth or along its surface.
- service area — motorway facilities
- service flat — an apartment with complete hotel services.
- service game — a game in which a particular tennis player is the one who serves
- service mark — a proprietary term, such as Blue Cross and Blue Shield, American Express, or Planned Parenthood, that is registered with the Patent and Trademark Office. Abbreviation: SM.
- service road — frontage road.
- servicewoman — a woman who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- sivapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene primates of Asia that resemble the modern orangutan.
- space-saving — that saves space.
- stupefactive — serving to stupefy.
- surveillance — a watch kept over a person, group, etc., especially over a suspect, prisoner, or the like: The suspects were under police surveillance.
- swivel chair — a chair whose seat turns around horizontally on a swivel.
- tsesarevitch — (in Russian history) the eldest son of a tsar or his heir apparent
- uv ceti star — flare star.
- valenciennes — a city in N France, SE of Lille.
- varicosities — the state or condition of being varicose.
- vascularised — (of a tissue or embryo) to develop or extend blood vessels or other fluid-bearing vessels or ducts; become vascular.
- vascularized — rendered vascular by the formation of new blood vessels.
- vereshchagin — Vasili Vasilievich [vuh-syee-lyee vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /vʌˈsyi lyi vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1842–1904, Russian painter.
- verticalness — the quality or state of being vertical; uprightness
- vesicularity — the quality or state of being vesicular
- vesiculation — characterized by or covered with vesicles.
- vindicatress — a female vindicator