12-letter words containing c, o, r, v, e, t
- overemphatic — excessive or undue emphasis.
- overexplicit — excessively explicit
- overmedicate — to treat with medicine or medicaments.
- overreaction — to react or respond more strongly than is necessary or appropriate.
- overreactive — tending to react.
- overscutched — overworked; worn out
- overstocking — to stock to excess: We are overstocked on this item.
- pocket drive — a small portable memory device that can be plugged into the USB port of many different types of computer
- 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.
- 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
- reactivation — to render active again; revive.
- 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.
- 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.
- reproductive — serving to reproduce.
- retrodictive — of or relating to retrodicting or retrodiction
- serve notice — to give formal warning or information, as of intentions; announce
- servocontrol — control by means of a servomechanism.
- sweet clover — melilot.
- the-overcoat — a short story (1842) by Gogol.
- tongue cover — a loose-leaf binding having a flap of the cover concealing the binding posts.
- tree-covered — covered by or having many trees
- turacoverdin — a green pigment found in certain feathers of the touraco
- unconversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
- unproductive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- unprotective — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- varia lectio — a variant reading.
- varicosities — the state or condition of being varicose.
- 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.
- vector field — a region, domain, set, etc., with a vector assigned at each point; vector function.
- vector space — an additive group in which addition is commutative and with which is associated a field of scalars, as the field of real numbers, such that the product of a scalar and an element of the group or a vector is defined, the product of two scalars times a vector is associative, one times a vector is the vector, and two distributive laws hold.
- velcro strip — a strip or roll of Velcro, able to be cut to the required length
- velociraptor — a small carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Velociraptor , from the late Cretaceous period, capable of leaping, and growing to a length of about 6 feet (2 meters), having feathers, a flat snout, short forelimbs with large handlike talons, and a large sickle-shaped claw on each foot.
- ventnor city — a town in SE New Jersey.
- verification — the act of verifying.
- visceromotor — of or relating to the normal movements of the viscera, especially the digestive tract.
- viscerotonia — a personality type characterized by hedonism and conviviality: said to be correlated with an endomorph body type
- viscerotonic — of, relating to, or possessing the character traits typical of viscerotonia
- vociferation — noisy outcry; clamor.
- vociferosity — the characteristic of being vociferous
- water clover — a common freshwater fern, Marsilea quadrifolia, of lake edges and quiet ponds, having roots embedded in the bottom, very slender and often tangled stems, and floating, cloverlike leaves composed of four leaflets.
- white clover — a clover, Trifolium repens, having white flowers, common in pastures and meadows.
- xenoreactive — (immunology) That generates a reaction to material from another species.