12-letter words containing c, o, r, v
- rough-voiced — having a harsh or grating voice: a rough-voiced barker.
- royal octavo — a book size, 61⁄4 by 10 inches
- scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder
- scrive board — a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.
- serve notice — to give formal warning or information, as of intentions; announce
- service book — a book containing the forms of worship used in divine services.
- service road — frontage road.
- servicewoman — a woman who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- servocontrol — control by means of a servomechanism.
- snow-covered — Snow-covered places and things are covered over with snow.
- 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
- un-revocable — that may be revoked.
- unchivalrous — having the qualities of chivalry, as courage, courtesy, and loyalty.
- uncoercively — in an uncoercive manner
- unconversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
- undiscovered — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
- unobservance — a failure to comply or observe (a law, custom, etc)
- unproductive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- unprotective — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- vacuum servo — a servomechanism that is operated by the lowering of pressure in the intake duct of an internal-combustion engine
- vaporescence — production or formation of vapor.
- varia lectio — a variant reading.
- varicoloured — having many colours; variegated; motley
- varicosities — the state or condition of being varicose.
- variocoupler — a transformer having coils with a self-impedance that is essentially constant but a mutual impedance that can be varied by moving one coil with respect to the other.
- 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.
- verbenaceous — belonging to the plant family Verbenaceae.
- verification — the act of verifying.
- very much so — The expression very much so is an emphatic way of answering 'yes' to something or saying that it is true or correct.
- vicar choral — a member of the clergy or a layperson in a cathedral who sings certain parts of the service.
- vicar forane — dean1 (def 2b).
- victoria day — (in Canada) the first Monday preceding May 25, observed as a national holiday.
- victorianism — the distinctive character, thought, tendencies, etc., of the Victorian period.
- victoriously — having achieved a victory; conquering; triumphant: our victorious army.
- victory roll — a roll of an aircraft made by a pilot to announce or celebrate the shooting down of an enemy plane or other cause for celebration
- victory ship — a fast, turbine-powered cargo ship of World War II, having a capacity of about 11,000 dead-weight tons.
- video arcade — A video arcade is a place where you can play video games on machines which work when you put money in them.
- video camera — a handheld or mounted portable camera intended for recording moving images in digital memory or on videotape.
- video piracy — the unauthorized or prohibited use of audio-visual works covered by copyright law, in a way that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works
- video screen — screen (def 5).
- video-record — to record (programs, broadcasts, or the like) on videotape or videodisk.