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

  • overcautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
  • overcharging — Present participle of overcharge.
  • overclassify — to classify to excess
  • overcramming — excessive cramming
  • overcritical — excessively critical; hypercritical.
  • overdelicate — extremely or excessively delicate: an overdelicate digestive system.
  • overdramatic — of or relating to the drama.
  • overemphatic — excessive or undue emphasis.
  • overissuance — the act of issuing in excessive amounts
  • overmedicate — to treat with medicine or medicaments.
  • 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.
  • ovolactarian — lacto-ovo-vegetarian.
  • pancho-villa — Francisco [frahn-sees-kaw] /frɑnˈsis kɔ/ (Show IPA), (Doroteo Arango"Pancho Villa") 1877–1923, Mexican general and revolutionist.
  • pax vobiscum — peace be with you
  • peace-loving — If you describe someone as peace-loving, you mean that they try to avoid quarrelling or fighting with other people.
  • 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.
  • pervicacious — extremely willful; obstinate; stubborn.
  • petach tikva — a city in W Israel, NE of Tel Aviv.
  • petrifactive — having the ability to turn substances into stone
  • photovoltaic — of or relating to the photovoltaic effect.
  • 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.
  • postvaccinal — occurring after a vaccine
  • 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.
  • psychoactive — of or relating to a substance having a profound or significant effect on mental processes: a psychoactive drug.
  • 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.
  • quacksalving — resembling or characteristic of a 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • salk vaccine — a vaccine that contains three types of inactivated poliomyelitis viruses and induces immunity against the disease.
  • salvifically — in a saving manner
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