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12-letter words containing a, r, i, v

  • archive site — (networking)   (Or "FTP site", "FTP archive") An Internet host where program source, documents, e-mail or news messages are stored for public access via anonymous FTP, Gopher, web or other document distribution system. There may be several archive sites (mirrors) for, e.g., a Usenet newsgroup though one may be recognised as the main one. FTP servers were common on the Internet for about ten years but have been largely replaced by web servers since the invention of the World-Wide Web and its HTTP protocol. Some well-known archive sites included Imperial College, UK, UUNET, USA, GNU archive site. The archie service attempted to index the contents of FTP archives, foreshadowing the indexing of the web by Google and others.
  • arenaviruses — Plural form of arenavirus.
  • arfvedsonite — a type of hornblende with the composition Na3(Fe,Mg)4FeSi8O22(OH)2
  • arrival date — Your arrival date is the date that you are expected to come to a hotel or other location.
  • arrival time — the time when someone or something arrives, arrived, or will arrive
  • articulative — relating to articulation
  • asseverating — Present participle of asseverate.
  • asseveration — the act of asseverating.
  • asseverative — characterized by or relating to solemn declaration or affirmation
  • at intervals — If something happens at intervals, it happens several times with gaps or pauses in between.
  • atorvastatin — a statin, (C 33 H 34 FN 2 O 5) 2 ·Ca 3 H 2 O, used in the prevention and treatment of heart disease.
  • attractively — In an attractive manner; with the power of attracting or drawing to.
  • attractivity — The quality or degree of attractive power or influence.
  • autoreactive — (immunology, medicine) Acting against the organism by which it was produced.
  • avariciously — characterized by avarice; greedy; covetous.
  • avascularity — the condition of having few blood vessels or of being without blood vessels
  • average life — the average time that an unstable particle or nucleus survives before it decays.
  • aversiveness — the condition of being characterized by aversion
  • aviculturist — A person who keeps and rears (breeds) birds.
  • avuncularity — the condition of being an uncle
  • barcoo river — a river in E central Australia, in SW Queensland: joins with the Thomson River to form Cooper Creek
  • bartlesville — a city in NE Oklahoma.
  • behaviorally — manner of behaving or acting.
  • behaviourism — Behaviourism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
  • beta version — beta testing
  • bib overalls — overall (def 3a).
  • boulevardier — (originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places
  • brevicaudate — having a short tail.
  • brevipennate — (of flightless birds) short-winged
  • buck private — a common soldier
  • cantilevered — A cantilevered structure is constructed using cantilevers.
  • canton river — Zhu Jiang.
  • canvas chair — a chair in which the seat and back are made from canvas
  • captive-bred — bred in captivity
  • caravan site — A caravan site is an area of land where people can stay in a caravan on holiday, or where people live in caravans.
  • caravanserai — (in some Eastern countries esp formerly) a large inn enclosing a courtyard providing accommodation for caravans
  • cardioactive — of or relating to a drug or other substance affecting the function of the heart.
  • carlovingian — Carolingian
  • carnivourous — Misspelling of carnivorous.
  • carrier wave — a wave of fixed amplitude and frequency that is modulated in amplitude, frequency, or phase in order to carry a signal in radio transmission, etc
  • carvel-built — (of a vessel) having a hull with planks made flush at the seams
  • carver chair — a chair of 17th-century New England, having a frame formed entirely of turned pieces, a back filled with several spindles, and no spindles between the arms and the seat.
  • 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
  • cattle drive — the process of moving cattle across country, often carried out by cowboys on horseback
  • cavalierness — a horseman, especially a mounted soldier; knight.
  • 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.
  • cavo-relievo — a relief sculpture in which the highest point in the carving is below the level of the original surface
  • centumvirate — the office of the centumviri
  • cerivastatin — A synthetic statin formerly used to lower cholesterol and prevent cardiovascular disease, later withdrawn due to the risk of rhabdomyolysis.
  • cervical cap — a plastic or rubber, thimble-shaped contraceptive that is fitted over the cervix to prevent sperm from entering the uterus
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