12-letter words containing a, k, v
- antitakeover — opposed to or acting against a takeover
- baker's oven — an oven used esp for baking bread
- baklava code — (humour, programming) Code with too many layers. Also known as Lasagne Code.
- basket weave — a weave of fabrics resembling the weave used in basket making
- basketweaver — a person who advocates simple, natural, and unsophisticated living
- black velvet — a mixture of stout and champagne in equal proportions
- block caving — a method of mining a large block of ore by systematically undercutting so the ore will cave. Compare cave (def 5a).
- buck private — a common soldier
- carving fork — a large, two-tined fork with a metal guard to protect the hand, used to hold meat in place as it is being carved
- cave cricket — any of several nocturnal, wingless, cricketlike long-horned grasshoppers of the family Gryllacrididae, characterized by a humpbacked appearance and inhabiting dark moist habitats, as caves, cellars, hollow trees, and the ground under logs and stones.
- cavity block — a precast concrete block that contains a cavity or cavities
- chakravartin — (in Indian philosophy, politics, etc.) an ideal, universal, enlightened ruler, under whom the world exists in justice and peace.
- czechoslovak — Czechoslovak means belonging or relating to the former state of Czechoslovakia.
- devil's mark — (in witchcraft) a mark, as a scar or blemish, on the body of a person who has made a compact with a devil.
- duvet jacket — a down-filled jacket used esp by mountaineers
- eke a living — If you eke a living or eke out an existence, you manage to survive with very little money.
- geelvink bay — former (Dutch) name of Sarera Bay.
- give or take — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- graving dock — an excavated shore dry dock for the repair and maintenance of ships.
- hanover park — a city in NE Illinois.
- harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
- have kittens — to react with disapproval, anxiety, etc
- heaven knows — You can say 'Heaven knows' to emphasize that you do not know something, or that you find something very surprising.
- intake valve — a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine that opens at the proper moment in the cycle to allow the fuel-air mixture to be drawn into the cylinder.
- jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
- karlovy vary — a city in W Czech Republic: mineral springs; Carlsbad Decrees (1819).
- katharevousa — The purist form of modern Greek used in traditional literary writing, as opposed to the form that is spoken and used in everyday writing (called demotic).
- kavir desert — Dasht-e-Kavir.
- kelvin scale — William Thomson, 1st Baron, 1824–1907, English physicist and mathematician.
- kurchatovium — (chemistry) A rejected name for rutherfordium.
- lake vättern — a lake in S central Sweden: the second largest lake in Sweden; linked to Lake Vänern by the Göta Canal; drains into the Baltic. Area: 1912 sq km (738 sq miles)
- leave-taking — a saying farewell; a parting or goodbye; departure: His leave-taking was brief.
- make believe — the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
- make-believe — pretense, especially of an innocent or playful kind; feigning; sham: the make-believe of children playing.
- market value — the value of a business, property, etc., in terms of what it can be sold for on the open market; current value (distinguished from book value).
- markov chain — a Markov process restricted to discrete random events or to discontinuous time sequences.
- markov model — (probability, simulation) A model or simulation based on Markov chains.
- north kvaløy — an island in the Arctic Ocean, off the N coast of Norway. Area: 329 sq km (127 sq miles)
- oval kumquat — a spineless shrub or small citrus tree, Fortunella margarita, of China, having oval-shaped, orange-yellow fruit with sweet and acid flesh.
- park savanna — savanna grassland scattered with trees
- petach tikva — a city in W Israel, NE of Tel Aviv.
- petrozavodsk — a city in NW Russia, capital of the Karelian Autonomous Republic, on Lake Onega: developed around ironworks established by Peter the Great in 1703; university (1940). Pop: 265 000 (2005 est)
- private joke — a joke that is understood only by a certain social group
- quacksalvers — Plural form of quacksalver.
- quacksalving — resembling or characteristic of a quacksalver
- reserve bank — one of the 12 principal banks of the U.S. Federal Reserve System.
- reserve tank — the tank or part of a tank in a car engine that reserves fuel in case the main fuel supply runs out
- rock carving — the practice of carving on rock
- salk vaccine — a vaccine that contains three types of inactivated poliomyelitis viruses and induces immunity against the disease.
- sauk village — a town in NE Illinois.
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