12-letter words containing c, o, e, v, l
- 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.
- 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.
- nonrevocable — Not revocable.
- nonselective — having the function or power of selecting; making a selection.
- nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
- normal curve — a bell-shaped curve showing a particular distribution of probability over the values of a random variable. Also called Gaussian curve, probability curve.
- 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)
- object value — (jargon) In industrial design, a measure of consumers' immediate desire for an object, even before they know or understand what it does. "Gassee may be nuts, but at least the BeBox has great object value."
- oblivescence — the process of forgetting.
- obliviscence — the condition or fact of failing to remember or having failed to remember or of being absent-minded
- old covenant — the covenant between God and the ancient Israelites, based on the Mosaic Law.
- olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.
- oven cleaner — a liquid, often foam in an aerosol container, designed to clean ovens
- over-complex — composed of many interconnected parts; compound; composite: a complex highway system.
- overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
- overbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbalance.
- 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.
- overcoloured — excessively coloured
- overcritical — excessively critical; hypercritical.
- overdelicate — extremely or excessively delicate: an overdelicate digestive system.
- overexplicit — excessively explicit
- overinclined — extremely or excessively inclined (to)
- overreliance — confident or trustful dependence.
- owl's clover — any of several western American plants belonging to the genus Orthocarpus, of the figwort family, having dense spikes of flowers in a variety of colors with conspicuous bracts.
- owl's-clover — any of a genus (Orthocarpus) of plants of the figwort family of W North and South America; esp., a California species (O. purpurascens) with red or purple upper leaves
- peace-loving — If you describe someone as peace-loving, you mean that they try to avoid quarrelling or fighting with other people.
- pelvic floor — muscles beneath the pelvis
- 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.
- proclivities — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- protectively — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- 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.
- reconvalesce — to convalesce again
- renovascular — of or relating to the blood vessels of the kidneys.
- roncesvalles — a village in N Spain, in the Pyrenees: defeat of part of Charlemagne's army and the death of Roland a.d.
- servocontrol — control by means of a servomechanism.
- sweet clover — melilot.
- un-revocable — that may be revoked.