12-letter words containing a, n, t, i, c, v
- nova scotian — a peninsula and province in SE Canada: once a part of the French province of Acadia. 21,068 sq. mi. (54,565 sq. km). Capital: Halifax.
- orthovanadic — relating to orthovanadates
- overreaction — to react or respond more strongly than is necessary or appropriate.
- ovolactarian — lacto-ovo-vegetarian.
- postvaccinal — occurring after a vaccine
- privatdocent — (in German and certain other universities) a private teacher or lecturer recognized by the university but receiving no compensation from it, being remunerated by fees.
- reactivation — to render active again; revive.
- reactiveness — tending to react.
- security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
- turacoverdin — a green pigment found in certain feathers of the touraco
- unattractive — providing pleasure or delight, especially in appearance or manner; pleasing; charming; alluring: an attractive personality.
- uncreativity — the state or quality of being creative.
- uncultivable — capable of being cultivated.
- uncultivated — prepared and used for raising crops; tilled: cultivated land.
- unvaccinated — to inoculate with the vaccine of cowpox so as to render the subject immune to smallpox.
- unvindicated — to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
- vacation pay — salary paid during holidays
- vacationland — an area having recreational facilities, historic or picturesque sights, etc., that attract vacationists.
- vatican city — an independent state within the city of Rome, on the right bank of the Tiber. Established in 1929, it is ruled by the pope and includes St. Peter's Church and the Vatican. 109 acres (44 hectares).
- vaticination — an act of prophesying.
- verification — the act of verifying.
- verticalness — the quality or state of being vertical; uprightness
- vesiculation — characterized by or covered with vesicles.
- vibratiuncle — a slight vibration
- vice-captain — a person who deputizes for a captain and serves in his or her place during his or her absence or indisposition
- victorianism — the distinctive character, thought, tendencies, etc., of the Victorian period.
- vilification — to speak ill of; defame; slander.
- vindicatress — a female vindicator
- vinification — the process of making wine.
- viscerotonia — a personality type characterized by hedonism and conviviality: said to be correlated with an endomorph body type
- vitamin-rich — (of a food or diet) containing a lot of vitamins or a lot of a particular vitamin
- vivification — to give life to; animate; quicken.
- vocalization — to make vocal; utter; articulate; sing.
- vocationally — of, relating to, or connected with a vocation or occupation: a vocational aptitude.
- vociferation — noisy outcry; clamor.
- wavefunction — (physics) A mathematical function that describes the propagation of the quantum mechanical wave associated with a particle (or system of particles), related to the probability of finding the particle in a particular region of space.
- xenoreactive — (immunology) That generates a reaction to material from another species.