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

  • overissuance — the act of issuing in excessive amounts
  • overmedicate — to treat with medicine or medicaments.
  • overpurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
  • overreaching — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
  • overreaction — to react or respond more strongly than is necessary or appropriate.
  • overreactive — tending to react.
  • overreliance — confident or trustful dependence.
  • overseas cap — a soft, brimless military cap
  • ovolactarian — lacto-ovo-vegetarian.
  • perivisceral — surrounding or situated about the viscera.
  • perseverance — steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.
  • perspectival — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
  • pervicacious — extremely willful; obstinate; stubborn.
  • petrifactive — having the ability to turn substances into stone
  • picornavirus — any of a group of small, RNA-containing viruses of the family Picornaviridae, infectious to humans and other animals, and including the poliovirus and the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold.
  • power vacuum — a situation when a government has no identifiable central authority
  • prevaricator — a person who speaks falsely; liar.
  • privatdocent — (in German and certain other universities) a private teacher or lecturer recognized by the university but receiving no compensation from it, being remunerated by fees.
  • pro-activity — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • provincially — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
  • putrefactive — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
  • pyruvic acid — a water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 4 O 3 , important in many metabolic and fermentative processes, having an odor resembling that of acetic acid, prepared by the dehydration of tartaric acid: used chiefly in biochemical research.
  • quacksalvers — Plural form of quacksalver.
  • radicivorous — feeding on the roots of plants
  • ravioli code — (jargon, humour)   Object-oriented code consisting of a number of small and loosely-coupled software components. Presumably, the term is a compliment, contrasting the code with spaghetti code.
  • re-educative — of or relating to re-education
  • reactivation — to render active again; revive.
  • reactiveness — tending to react.
  • reactivities — the quality or condition of being reactive.
  • reconvalesce — to convalesce again
  • reconveyance — to convey again.
  • recreatively — to refresh by means of relaxation and enjoyment, as restore physically or mentally.
  • recuperative — that recuperates.
  • refractivity — the power to refract.
  • relativistic — of or relating to relativity or relativism.
  • renovascular — of or relating to the blood vessels of the kidneys.
  • retractively — in a retractive manner
  • revictualled — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
  • rice vinegar — a vinegar made from fermented rice or rice wine, used esp in Chinese and Japanese cuisine
  • rock carving — the practice of carving on rock
  • roncesvalles — a village in N Spain, in the Pyrenees: defeat of part of Charlemagne's army and the death of Roland a.d.
  • royal octavo — a book size, 61⁄4 by 10 inches
  • sacral nerve — any of the nerves arising in five pairs from the spinal cord in the sacrum.
  • saving grace — a quality that makes up for other generally negative characteristics; redeeming feature.
  • scavengering — scavenging
  • screen saver — a program that displays a constantly shifting pattern on a screen when the computer is idle, originally used to prevent damage to the screen through continuous display of the same image but now used primarily for decoration.
  • scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder
  • scrive board — a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.
  • scurvy grass — a plant, Cochlearia officinalis, of the mustard family, purported to be a remedy for scurvy.
  • security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
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