12-letter words containing c, b, v
- 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.
- scuba diving — deep-sea swimming
- service book — a book containing the forms of worship used in divine services.
- service club — any of several organizations dedicated to the growth and general welfare of its members and the community.
- serviceberry — the fruit of any service tree.
- silver birch — tree with silvery-white bark
- subcivilized — not quite civilized
- subjectively — existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective).
- subjectivise — make subjective
- subjectivism — Epistemology. the doctrine that all knowledge is limited to experiences by the self, and that transcendent knowledge is impossible.
- subjectivist — Epistemology. the doctrine that all knowledge is limited to experiences by the self, and that transcendent knowledge is impossible.
- subjectivity — the state or quality of being subjective; subjectiveness.
- subjectivize — to make subjective
- subscriptive — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
- subservience — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
- subserviency — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
- un-revocable — that may be revoked.
- unachievable — to bring to a successful end; carry through; accomplish: The police crackdown on speeders achieved its purpose.
- uncultivable — capable of being cultivated.
- unobservance — a failure to comply or observe (a law, custom, etc)
- unsubjective — existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective).
- 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 It is now largely superseded by the Westinghouse brake system
- valve bounce — A valve bounce is the bouncing of a poppet valve on its seat when it is closing.
- 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)
- vector boson — one of the three particles that are believed to transmit the weak force: the positively charged W particle, the negatively charged W particle, and the neutral Z 0 particle.
- verbenaceous — belonging to the plant family Verbenaceae.
- vibratiuncle — a slight vibration
- visual basic — (language) (VB) A popular event-driven visual programming system from Microsoft Corporation for Microsoft Windows. VB is good for developing Windows interfaces, it invokes fragments of BASIC code when the user performs certain operations on graphical objects on-screen. It is widely used for in-house application program development and for prototyping. It can also be used to create ActiveX and COM components. Version 1 was released in 1991 [by Microsoft?].
- vocabularian — a person who is particularly or overly attentive to words
- vocabularied — having a vocabulary as specified
- web services — (standard, programming, software) A family of standards promoted by the W3C for working with other business, developers and programs through open protocols, languages and APIs, including XML, Simple Object Access Protocol, WSDL and UDDI.