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

  • service area — motorway facilities
  • service flat — an apartment with complete hotel services.
  • service game — a game in which a particular tennis player is the one who serves
  • service mark — a proprietary term, such as Blue Cross and Blue Shield, American Express, or Planned Parenthood, that is registered with the Patent and Trademark Office. Abbreviation: SM.
  • service road — frontage road.
  • servicewoman — a woman who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
  • space travel — spaceflight of manned vehicles.
  • surface wave — a seismic wave that travels along or parallel to the earth's surface (distinguished from body wave).
  • surveillance — a watch kept over a person, group, etc., especially over a suspect, prisoner, or the like: The suspects were under police surveillance.
  • swivel chair — a chair whose seat turns around horizontally on a swivel.
  • tetravalence — the condition of having a valency of four
  • the-overcoat — a short story (1842) by Gogol.
  • tsesarevitch — (in Russian history) the eldest son of a tsar or his heir apparent
  • turacoverdin — a green pigment found in certain feathers of the touraco
  • un-revocable — that may be revoked.
  • unattractive — providing pleasure or delight, especially in appearance or manner; pleasing; charming; alluring: an attractive personality.
  • unchivalrous — having the qualities of chivalry, as courage, courtesy, and loyalty.
  • unconversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
  • uncreativity — the state or quality of being creative.
  • under canvas — If you are living and sleeping under canvas, you are living and sleeping in a tent.
  • underachieve — to perform, especially academically, below the potential indicated by tests of one's mental ability or aptitude.
  • unobservance — a failure to comply or observe (a law, custom, etc)
  • uv ceti star — flare star.
  • vacuum brake — a brake system, used on British and many overseas railways, in which the brake is held off by a vacuum on one side of the brake-operating cylinder. If the vacuum is destroyed by controlled leakage of air or a disruptive emergency, the brake is applied. It is now largely superseded by the Westinghouse brake system
  • vacuum frame — a machine from which the air is extracted in order to obtain close contact between the surfaces of two materials, e.g. the film and plate during platemaking
  • vacuum servo — a servomechanism that is operated by the lowering of pressure in the intake duct of an internal-combustion engine
  • valeric acid — any of several isomeric organic acids having the formula C 5 H 10 O 2 , the common one being a liquid of pungent odor obtained from valerian roots: used chiefly as an intermediate in perfumery.
  • van riebeeck — Jan, full name Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck. 1619–77, Dutch colonial administrator. Founder of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope (1652)
  • vaporescence — production or formation of vapor.
  • varia lectio — a variant reading.
  • varicoloured — having many colours; variegated; motley
  • varicosities — the state or condition of being varicose.
  • 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.
  • vascular ray — a radiate band of parenchyma in the secondary xylem extending into the secondary phloem of the stems of certain vascular plants, formed by the cambium and serving for the storage of food and the conduction of nutriments.
  • vascularised — (of a tissue or embryo) to develop or extend blood vessels or other fluid-bearing vessels or ducts; become vascular.
  • vascularized — rendered vascular by the formation of new blood vessels.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • verbenaceous — belonging to the plant family Verbenaceae.
  • vereshchagin — Vasili Vasilievich [vuh-syee-lyee vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /vʌˈsyi lyi vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1842–1904, Russian painter.
  • verification — the act of verifying.
  • verticalness — the quality or state of being vertical; uprightness
  • verticillate — disposed in or forming verticils or whorls, as flowers or hairs.
  • vesicularity — the quality or state of being vesicular
  • vibratiuncle — a slight vibration
  • vicar choral — a member of the clergy or a layperson in a cathedral who sings certain parts of the service.
  • vicar forane — dean1 (def 2b).
  • vice admiral — a naval officer next in rank below an admiral.
  • vice-admiral — a naval officer next in rank below an admiral.
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