12-letter words containing c, a, n, v
- intravesical — Within the urinary bladder.
- invercargill — a city on S South Island, in New Zealand.
- invocational — Of or relating to an act of invocation.
- irrelevances — Plural form of irrelevance.
- 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.
- jordan curve — simple closed curve.
- kelvin scale — William Thomson, 1st Baron, 1824–1907, English physicist and mathematician.
- lever-action — (of a rifle) having a lever action.
- living space — home: rooms, etc.
- lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
- machiavelian — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
- manu-service — denoting a business that involves both the manufacture of goods and the provision of after-sales services
- markov chain — a Markov process restricted to discrete random events or to discontinuous time sequences.
- mexican wave — If a crowd of people do a Mexican wave, each person in the crowd stands up and puts their arms in the air after the person to one side of them, creating a continuous wave-like motion through the crowd.
- motorcaravan — A motorized caravan; camper, motor home, recreational vehicle.
- multivalence — Chemistry. having a valence of three or higher.
- nasal cavity — sinus
- negativistic — a negative or pessimistic attitude.
- new covenant — (sometimes initial capital letters) (in Christian exegesis) the promises of salvation made by God to humans individually, based on divine grace rather than Mosaic Law.
- no vacancies — No vacancies is used on a notice at a hotel or guest house when there are no rooms available to rent.
- nomenclative — relating to the act of naming
- non-achiever — a person who consistently fails to achieve, esp academically
- non-activist — an especially active, vigorous advocate of a cause, especially a political cause.
- non-advocacy — the act of pleading for, supporting, or recommending; active espousal: He was known for his advocacy of states' rights.
- non-advocate — to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly: He advocated higher salaries for teachers.
- non-civilian — a person who is not on active duty with a military, naval, police, or fire fighting organization.
- non-curative — serving to cure or heal; pertaining to curing or remedial treatment; remedial.
- non-reactive — tending to react.
- non-vascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- nonactivated — not activated,
- nonaddictive — producing or tending to cause addiction: an addictive drug.
- nonaffective — of, caused by, or expressing emotion or feeling; emotional.
- noncausative — Not causative.
- noncombative — Not combative.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- oncornavirus — any of various RNA viruses that cause tumors in humans and other animals.
- orthovanadic — relating to orthovanadates
- 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.
- overbearance — (rare, or, obsolete) Overbearing behaviour; arrogance; imperiousness.
- overcharging — Present participle of overcharge.
- overcramming — excessive cramming