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12-letter words containing c, l, e, v, i

  • facial nerve — either one of the seventh pair of cranial nerves composed of motor fibers that control muscles of the face except those used in chewing.
  • facilitative — to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work.
  • full-service — offering or providing a wide range of services related to the basic line of business, as when a filling station changes tires or makes car repairs in addition to selling gasoline.
  • gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
  • gravity cell — a cell containing two electrolytes that have different specific gravities.
  • inchoatively — in an inchoative or rudimentary fashion; initially
  • 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
  • inconclusive — not conclusive; not resolving fully all doubts or questions: inconclusive evidence.
  • 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.
  • intellective — having power to understand; intelligent; cognitive.
  • intervocalic — (usually of a consonant) immediately following a vowel and preceding a vowel, as the v in cover.
  • intravesical — Within the urinary bladder.
  • invercargill — a city on S South Island, in New Zealand.
  • irreflective — Without mental reflection.
  • irrelevances — Plural form of irrelevance.
  • jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
  • kelvin scale — William Thomson, 1st Baron, 1824–1907, English physicist and mathematician.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • microvessels — Plural form of microvessel.
  • microwavable — Of food, that is suitable for cooking in a microwave oven.
  • middle voice — the voice or form used when the subject of a verb performs an action on itself (often the reflexive form)
  • multi-voiced — having a voice of a specified kind (usually used in combination): shrill-voiced.
  • multiservice — involving two or more of the armed services
  • multivalence — Chemistry. having a valence of three or higher.
  • nomenclative — relating to the act of naming
  • non-elective — pertaining to the principle of electing to an office, position, etc.
  • non-violence — absence or lack of violence; state or condition of avoiding violence.
  • noncivilized — Not civilized.
  • noncollusive — involving collusion; fraudulently contrived by agreement: a collusive agreement to increase prices.
  • nonexclusive — not admitting of something else; incompatible: mutually exclusive plans of action.
  • nonocclusive — occluding or tending to occlude.
  • nonselective — having the function or power of selecting; making a selection.
  • nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
  • novell, inc. — (company, networking)   A software development company specialising in networking and workgroup applications. The company has diversified in recent years, with the acquisition of several mainstream applications, including Wordperfect and Quattro Pro. Other products include UnixWare, AppWare, Personal NetWare, Groupwise and Novell Dos 7. (21 Sept 1995)
  • oblivescence — the process of forgetting.
  • obliviscence — the condition or fact of failing to remember or having failed to remember or of being absent-minded
  • olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.
  • overclassify — to classify to excess
  • overclocking — Computers. to modify (a hardware component, as a processor, graphics card, or memory) so as to increase the speed of that component beyond the specifications of the manufacturer: You can overclock your video card to improve its performance.
  • overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
  • overcritical — excessively critical; hypercritical.
  • overdelicate — extremely or excessively delicate: an overdelicate digestive system.
  • overexplicit — excessively explicit
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