12-letter words containing c, o, v, e, n, a
- 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.
- 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.
- reactivation — to render active again; revive.
- reconvalesce — to convalesce again
- reconveyance — to convey 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.
- servicewoman — a woman who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- turacoverdin — a green pigment found in certain feathers of the touraco
- un-revocable — that may be revoked.
- unconversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
- uncovenanted — not agreed to or promised by covenant.
- unobservance — a failure to comply or observe (a law, custom, etc)
- vaginicoline — living in a sheath
- valve bounce — A valve bounce is the bouncing of a poppet valve on its seat when it is closing.
- vaporescence — production or formation of vapor.
- vax document — A document preparation system from DEC.
- velocipedean — someone who rides a velocipede
- verbenaceous — belonging to the plant family Verbenaceae.
- verification — the act of verifying.
- vesiculation — characterized by or covered with vesicles.
- vicar forane — dean1 (def 2b).
- viscerotonia — a personality type characterized by hedonism and conviviality: said to be correlated with an endomorph body type
- vocal memnon — one of the two seated figures of the Colossus of Memnon: so called because it once emitted sounds when struck by the rays of the rising sun.
- vociferation — noisy outcry; clamor.
- volcanogenic — created by a volcano; of volcanic origin.
- vox angelica — an organ stop with a soft tone, often similar to the voix céleste
- wallcovering — a flexible sheet of sized paper, fabric, plastic, etc., usually laminated and printed with a repeat pattern, for pasting on a wall as decoration and protection.
- wave cyclone — a cyclone that forms on a front and, in maturing, produces an increasingly sharp, wavelike deformation of the front.
- wavefunction — (physics) A mathematical function that describes the propagation of the quantum mechanical wave associated with a particle (or system of particles), related to the probability of finding the particle in a particular region of space.
- xenoreactive — (immunology) That generates a reaction to material from another species.