12-letter words containing c, i, v, e
- incentivises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incentivise.
- incentivized — to give incentives to: The government should incentivize the private sector to create jobs.
- incentivizes — to give incentives to: The government should incentivize the private sector to create jobs.
- inchoatively — in an inchoative or rudimentary fashion; initially
- incisiveness — penetrating; cutting; biting; trenchant: an incisive tone of voice.
- inclusive of — including; taking into account
- inclusive or — the connective that gives the value true to a disjunction if either or both of the disjuncts are true
- incogitative — Not cogitative; lacking the power of thought.
- inconclusive — not conclusive; not resolving fully all doubts or questions: inconclusive evidence.
- inconvenient — not easily accessible or at hand: The phone is in an inconvenient place.
- inconversant — Not conversant or acquainted (with something); unfamiliar.
- incorruptive — incorruptible; not tending to be corrupted
- incrassative — A substance which has the power to thicken; formerly, a medicine supposed to thicken the humours.
- indecisively — characterized by indecision, as persons; irresolute; undecided.
- indicatively — showing, signifying, or pointing out; expressive or suggestive (usually followed by of): behavior indicative of mental disorder.
- ingravescent — (esp of a disease) becoming more severe
- innocent vii — (Cosimo de' Migliorati) 1336–1406, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1404–06.
- inobservance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- input device — a peripheral device, as a keyboard or stylus, used to enter data into a computer for processing.
- insectivores — Plural form of insectivore.
- insusceptive — insusceptible
- intellective — having power to understand; intelligent; cognitive.
- interceptive — to take, seize, or halt (someone or something on the way from one place to another); cut off from an intended destination: to intercept a messenger.
- interconvert — to subject to interconversion; interchange.
- interdictive — Having the power to prohibit.
- interjective — Interjectional.
- interservice — (US) Involving relationships between branches of the armed services.
- intervocalic — (usually of a consonant) immediately following a vowel and preceding a vowel, as the v in cover.
- intoxicative — of or relating to intoxicants or intoxication.
- intravesical — Within the urinary bladder.
- introductive — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
- invercargill — a city on S South Island, in New Zealand.
- irreflective — Without mental reflection.
- irrelevances — Plural form of irrelevance.
- irrespective — without regard to something else, especially something specified; ignoring or discounting (usually followed by of): Irrespective of my wishes, I should go.
- jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
- java archive — (file format, filename extension) (jar) A compressed archive file containing Java class files, filename extension: ".jar". The Java Development Kit contains a tool called "jar" for creating .jar files, similar to the standard Unix tar command. As well as archiving and compressing the Java class files, it also inserts a "manifest" file which can contain information about the class files, such as a digital signature. Combining class files into a single archive file makes it possible to download them in a single HTTP transaction. This, and the compression, speeds up execution of Java programs delivered via the Internet. (2001}-02-03)
- jurisdictive — Jurisdictional.
- kelvin scale — William Thomson, 1st Baron, 1824–1907, English physicist and mathematician.
- kidney vetch — an Old World plant, Anthyllis vulneraria, of the legume family, formerly used as a remedy for kidney diseases.
- 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)
- lovesickness — Quality or property of being lovesick.
- machiavelian — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
- maid service — cleaner, cleaning business
- manu-service — denoting a business that involves both the manufacture of goods and the provision of after-sales services
- mexican wave — If a crowd of people do a Mexican wave, each person in the crowd stands up and puts their arms in the air after the person to one side of them, creating a continuous wave-like motion through the crowd.
- 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
- microgrooves — Plural form of microgroove.