12-letter words containing c, o, v, e, l, t
- electronvolt — (physics) alternative spelling of electron volt.
- elevator car — a compartment which carries people from floor to floor in a building via a vertical shaft
- equivocality — The quality of being equivocal.
- excavational — Relating to excavation.
- inchoatively — in an inchoative or rudimentary fashion; initially
- intervocalic — (usually of a consonant) immediately following a vowel and preceding a vowel, as the v in cover.
- lever-action — (of a rifle) having a lever action.
- lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
- 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.
- nonselective — having the function or power of selecting; making a selection.
- 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."
- old covenant — the covenant between God and the ancient Israelites, based on the Mosaic Law.
- overcritical — excessively critical; hypercritical.
- overdelicate — extremely or excessively delicate: an overdelicate digestive system.
- overexplicit — excessively explicit
- 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.
- servocontrol — control by means of a servomechanism.
- sweet clover — melilot.
- varia lectio — a variant reading.
- vector field — a region, domain, set, etc., with a vector assigned at each point; vector function.
- 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.
- vesiculation — characterized by or covered with vesicles.
- viscoelastic — pertaining to a substance having both viscous and elastic properties.
- vitellogenic — producing or stimulating the formation of yolk
- voix celeste — an organ stop having for each note two pipes tuned to slightly different pitches and producing a wavering, gentle tone.
- volstead act — an act of Congress, introduced in 1919 by Andrew J. Volstead to implement the Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution, which forbade the sale of alcoholic beverages.
- volta effect — contact potential.
- voltaic cell — cell1 (def 7a).
- voltaic pile — an early battery cell, consisting of several metal disks, each made of one of two dissimilar metals, arranged in an alternating series, and separated by pads moistened with an electrolyte.
- 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.