12-letter words containing c, a, s, e, v
- reconvalesce — to convalesce again
- relativistic — of or relating to relativity or relativism.
- renovascular — of or relating to the blood vessels of the kidneys.
- roncesvalles — a village in N Spain, in the Pyrenees: defeat of part of Charlemagne's army and the death of Roland a.d.
- sacral nerve — any of the nerves arising in five pairs from the spinal cord in the sacrum.
- salk vaccine — a vaccine that contains three types of inactivated poliomyelitis viruses and induces immunity against the disease.
- 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.
- security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
- seismic wave — a wave of energy that is generated by an earthquake or other earth vibration and that travels within the earth or along its surface.
- 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.
- sivapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene primates of Asia that resemble the modern orangutan.
- space travel — spaceflight of manned vehicles.
- space-saving — that saves space.
- spotted cavy — paca.
- stupefactive — serving to stupefy.
- 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.
- tsesarevitch — (in Russian history) the eldest son of a tsar or his heir apparent
- unconversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
- under canvas — If you are living and sleeping under canvas, you are living and sleeping in a tent.
- unobservance — a failure to comply or observe (a law, custom, etc)
- uv ceti star — flare star.
- vacuum servo — a servomechanism that is operated by the lowering of pressure in the intake duct of an internal-combustion engine
- valenciennes — a city in N France, SE of Lille.
- vaporescence — production or formation of vapor.
- varicosities — the state or condition of being varicose.
- 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.
- 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.
- verticalness — the quality or state of being vertical; uprightness
- vesicularity — the quality or state of being vesicular
- vesiculation — characterized by or covered with vesicles.
- vindicatress — a female vindicator
- viscerotonia — a personality type characterized by hedonism and conviviality: said to be correlated with an endomorph body type
- viscoelastic — pertaining to a substance having both viscous and elastic properties.
- volstead act — an act of Congress, introduced in 1919 by Andrew J. Volstead to implement the Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution, which forbade the sale of alcoholic beverages.