12-letter words containing c, a, v, e, r
- rice vinegar — a vinegar made from fermented rice or rice wine, used esp in Chinese and Japanese cuisine
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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