12-letter words containing c, a, p, e
- vaporescence — production or formation of vapor.
- variocoupler — a transformer having coils with a self-impedance that is essentially constant but a mutual impedance that can be varied by moving one coil with respect to the other.
- vector space — an additive group in which addition is commutative and with which is associated a field of scalars, as the field of real numbers, such that the product of a scalar and an element of the group or a vector is defined, the product of two scalars times a vector is associative, one times a vector is the vector, and two distributive laws hold.
- velocipedean — someone who rides a velocipede
- velociraptor — a small carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Velociraptor , from the late Cretaceous period, capable of leaping, and growing to a length of about 6 feet (2 meters), having feathers, a flat snout, short forelimbs with large handlike talons, and a large sickle-shaped claw on each foot.
- veneer patch — a patch made in one of the veneers of a sheet of plywood before layup.
- vice-captain — a person who deputizes for a captain and serves in his or her place during his or her absence or indisposition
- video piracy — the unauthorized or prohibited use of audio-visual works covered by copyright law, in a way that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works
- voltaic pile — an early battery cell, consisting of several metal disks, each made of one of two dissimilar metals, arranged in an alternating series, and separated by pads moistened with an electrolyte.
- wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements
- wake-up call — an act or instance of waking up.
- walking pace — the speed at which someone walks
- wall creeper — a small, gray and crimson Old World bird, Tichodroma muraria, that inhabits cliffs in mountainous areas.
- watch pocket — a small pocket in a garment, as in a vest or trousers, for holding a pocket watch, change, etc. Compare fob1 (def 1).
- water pocket — a cavity at the foot of a cliff formed by the falling action of an intermittent stream.
- web scraping — the extraction and copying of data from a website into a structured format using a computer program: Hackers pose a threat with techniques like web scraping. Our search engine uses web scraping to index sites.
- western cape — a province of W South Africa, created in 1994 from the SW part of Cape Province: agriculture (esp fruit), wine making, fishing, various industries in Cape Town. Capital: Cape Town. Pop: 5 822 734 (2011 est). Area: 129 370 sq km (49 950 sq miles)
- whip-cracker — a person who cracks a whip.
- yachtspeople — Plural form of yachtsperson.
- yachtsperson — A yachtsman or yachtswoman.