12-letter words containing c, a, v, e, l
- 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.
- kelvin scale — William Thomson, 1st Baron, 1824–1907, English physicist and mathematician.
- laffer curve — a relationship postulated between tax rates and tax receipts indicating that rates above a certain level actually produce less revenue because they discourage taxable endeavors and vice versa.
- lascaux cave — a cave in Lascaux, France, discovered in 1940 and containing exceptionally fine Paleolithic wall paintings and engravings thought to date to Magdalenian times (c13,000–8500 b.c.).
- 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.
- michael viii — surnamed Palaeologus (ˈpælɪəˌləʊɡəs). 1224–82, Byzantine emperor (1259–82); founder of the Palaeologan dynasty. His reign saw the recovery of Constantinople from the Latins (1261) and the reunion (1274) of the Greek and Roman churches
- microwavable — Of food, that is suitable for cooking in a microwave oven.
- multivalence — Chemistry. having a valence of three or higher.
- nomenclative — relating to the act of naming
- 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.
- object value — (jargon) In industrial design, a measure of consumers' immediate desire for an object, even before they know or understand what it does. "Gassee may be nuts, but at least the BeBox has great object value."
- old covenant — the covenant between God and the ancient Israelites, based on the Mosaic Law.
- olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.
- 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.
- overclassify — to classify to excess
- overcritical — excessively critical; hypercritical.
- overdelicate — extremely or excessively delicate: an overdelicate digestive system.
- overreliance — confident or trustful dependence.
- peace-loving — If you describe someone as peace-loving, you mean that they try to avoid quarrelling or fighting with other people.
- pentavalence — the condition of having a valency of five
- perivisceral — surrounding or situated about the viscera.
- perspectival — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
- plano-convex — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and convex on the other.
- planoconcave — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and concave on the other.
- quacksalvers — Plural form of quacksalver.
- 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.
- reconvalesce — to convalesce again
- recreatively — to refresh by means of relaxation and enjoyment, as restore physically or mentally.
- 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.
- 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.
- service flat — an apartment with complete hotel services.
- space travel — spaceflight of manned vehicles.
- 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
- un-revocable — that may be revoked.
- unachievable — to bring to a successful end; carry through; accomplish: The police crackdown on speeders achieved its purpose.