12-letter words containing c, e, v
- pelvic floor — muscles beneath the pelvis
- pentavalence — the condition of having a valency of five
- perceptively — having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition: a perceptive analysis of the problems involved.
- perceptivity — having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition: a perceptive analysis of the problems involved.
- perfectively — in a perfective manner; thoroughly
- perfectivity — the state or quality of being (a) perfective
- perfectivize — to make perfective.
- perivisceral — surrounding or situated about the viscera.
- perseverance — steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.
- 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
- pig receiver — A pig receiver is a device to get a pig out of a pipeline without interrupting flow.
- 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.
- pocket drive — a small portable memory device that can be plugged into the USB port of many different types of computer
- point-device — completely; perfectly; exactly.
- power vacuum — a situation when a government has no identifiable central authority
- preconceived — to form a conception or opinion of beforehand, as before seeing evidence or as a result of previously held prejudice.
- predictively — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
- prediscovery — a previous discovery
- prescriptive — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
- 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.
- proclivities — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- projectivity — of or relating to projection.
- proscriptive — the act of proscribing.
- protectively — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- provincetown — a town at the tip of Cape Cod, in SE Massachusetts: resort.
- provincewide — covering or available to the whole of a province
- pseudovector — a variable quantity, such as angular momentum, that has magnitude and orientation with respect to an axis. The components are even functions of the coordinates
- 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.
- quacksalvers — Plural form of quacksalver.
- quicksilvery — resembling quicksilver
- 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.
- receivership — the condition of being in the hands of a receiver.
- recidivistic — repeated or habitual relapse, as into crime.
- reconceiving — to form (a notion, opinion, purpose, etc.): He conceived the project while he was on vacation.
- reconvalesce — to convalesce again
- reconvention — an action brought by the defendant in pending litigation against the plaintiff: the defendant's claim must be connected in some way with the subject matter of the plaintiff's action.
- reconversion — to convert again.
- reconveyance — to convey again.
- reconviction — a fixed or firm belief: No clever argument, no persuasive fact or theory could make a dent in his conviction in the rightness of his position.