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12-letter words containing a, v, e, n

  • conservatism — Conservatism is a political philosophy which believes that if changes need to be made to society, they should be made gradually. You can also refer to the political beliefs of a conservative party in a particular country as Conservatism.
  • conservative — A Conservative politician or voter is a member of or votes for the Conservative Party in Britain.
  • conservatize — to make or become conservative
  • conservators — Plural form of conservator.
  • conservatory — A conservatory is a room with glass walls and a glass roof, which is attached to a house. People often grow plants in a conservatory.
  • conservatrix — a woman who conserves or keeps safe; custodian
  • consultative — A consultative committee or document gives advice or makes proposals about a particular problem or subject.
  • consummative — to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill.
  • continuative — serving or tending to continue
  • contraoctave — the octave that begins on the third C below middle C and ends on the second C below middle C
  • contravening — to come or be in conflict with; go or act against; deny or oppose: to contravene a statement.
  • contrivances — Plural form of contrivance.
  • controversal — (obsolete, rare) Facing opposite directions.
  • convalescent — Convalescent means relating to convalescence.
  • convalescing — to recover health and strength after illness; make progress toward recovery of health.
  • convectional — Physics. the transfer of heat by the circulation or movement of the heated parts of a liquid or gas.
  • conventional — Someone who is conventional has behaviour or opinions that are ordinary and normal.
  • conversating — to have a conversation; converse; talk.
  • conversation — If you have a conversation with someone, you talk with them, usually in an informal situation.
  • conversative — talkative
  • conversional — the act or process of converting; state of being converted.
  • conveyancing — Conveyancing is the process of transferring the legal ownership of property.
  • coordinative — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
  • countervails — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countervail.
  • countervalue — An equivalent or equal, especially in military strategy.
  • crane driver — a person who drives a crane
  • creativeness — having the quality or power of creating.
  • dad and dave — stereotypes of the unsophisticated rural dweller before World War II
  • danube river — a river in central and SE Europe, flowing E from southern Germany to the Black Sea. 1725 miles (2775 km) long.
  • david turner — (person)   Professor David A Turner. One of the pioneers of functional languages. He designed several languages, including, SASL (1976), KRC (1981), and Miranda, many of which were implemented using combinators and the S-K reduction machine which he defined. He coined the name "ZF expression" for the list comprehension. He worked at UKC and set up a company, Research Software Limited to market Miranda.
  • de havilland — Sir Geoffrey. 1882–1965, British aircraft designer. He produced many military aircraft and the first jet airliners
  • deactivating — Present participle of deactivate.
  • deactivation — The act of deactivating something, such as a bomb.
  • degenerative — A degenerative disease or condition is one that gets worse as time progresses.
  • deleveraging — an instance of this: The economic crisis has forced a deleverage.
  • deliverances — Plural form of deliverance.
  • delivery van — a small van used esp for delivery rounds
  • demand curve — A demand curve is a graph showing the price of an item and the amount consumers want to buy.
  • demotivating — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
  • demotivation — the act of demotivating
  • denominative — giving or constituting a name; naming
  • denotatively — having power to denote.
  • denunciative — Denunciatory.
  • depravedness — The state of being depraved; depravity.
  • deprivations — Plural form of deprivation.
  • derivational — Of or pertaining to derivation; relating to that which is derived.
  • detector van — a vehicle fitted with equipment that detects whether or not a house has a television. This is used to catch people who have not paid for a television licence and so are illegally using a television
  • devaluations — Plural form of devaluation.
  • devastations — Plural form of devastation.
  • deviationism — ideological deviation (esp from orthodox Communism)
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