12-letter words containing c, a, l, v, o
- correlatives — Plural form of correlative.
- corrivalship — the position of a corrival
- countervails — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countervail.
- countervalue — An equivalent or equal, especially in military strategy.
- curvifoliate — having leaves curved or bent back
- curvirostral — having a curved or crooked beak
- czechoslovak — Czechoslovak means belonging or relating to the former state of Czechoslovakia.
- decoratively — In a decorative manner.
- discoverable — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
- edulcorative — edulcorant
- elevator car — a compartment which carries people from floor to floor in a building via a vertical shaft
- endocervical — Within a cervix.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- equivocality — The quality of being equivocal.
- excavational — Relating to excavation.
- food vacuole — a membrane-enclosed cell vacuole with a digestive function, containing material taken up in by the process of phagocytosis.
- galvanoscope — an instrument for detecting the existence of an electric current and determining its direction.
- gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
- half-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
- inchoatively — in an inchoative or rudimentary fashion; initially
- intervocalic — (usually of a consonant) immediately following a vowel and preceding a vowel, as the v in cover.
- invocational — Of or relating to an act of invocation.
- jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
- japan clover — a drought-resistant bush clover, Lespedeza striata, of the legume family, introduced to the southern Atlantic states from Asia, having numerous tiny trifoliate leaves valued for pasturage and hay.
- lasciviously — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- lever-action — (of a rifle) having a lever action.
- lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
- microwavable — Of food, that is suitable for cooking in a microwave oven.
- nomenclative — relating to the act of naming
- non-civilian — a person who is not on active duty with a military, naval, police, or fire fighting organization.
- non-vascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- nonrevocable — Not revocable.
- nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
- normal curve — a bell-shaped curve showing a particular distribution of probability over the values of a random variable. Also called Gaussian curve, probability curve.
- object value — (jargon) In industrial design, a measure of consumers' immediate desire for an object, even before they know or understand what it does. "Gassee may be nuts, but at least the BeBox has great object value."
- old covenant — the covenant between God and the ancient Israelites, based on the Mosaic Law.
- old slavonic — Old Church Slavonic.
- olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.
- oven cleaner — a liquid, often foam in an aerosol container, designed to clean ovens
- overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
- overbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbalance.
- overclassify — to classify to excess
- overcritical — excessively critical; hypercritical.
- overdelicate — extremely or excessively delicate: an overdelicate digestive system.
- overreliance — confident or trustful dependence.
- ovolactarian — lacto-ovo-vegetarian.
- pancho-villa — Francisco [frahn-sees-kaw] /frɑnˈsis kɔ/ (Show IPA), (Doroteo Arango"Pancho Villa") 1877–1923, Mexican general and revolutionist.
- peace-loving — If you describe someone as peace-loving, you mean that they try to avoid quarrelling or fighting with other people.
- photovoltaic — of or relating to the photovoltaic effect.
- plano-convex — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and convex on the other.