12-letter words containing c, r, e, v, i, s
- effervescing — Present participle of effervesce.
- effervescive — Tending to produce effervescence.
- eigenvectors — Plural form of eigenvector.
- eviscerating — Present participle of eviscerate.
- evisceration — A disemboweling; the removal of viscera.
- exclusive or — (logic) (XOR, EOR) /X or, E or/ A two-input function whose result is true if one input is true and the other is false. The truth table is A | B | A xor B --+---+-------- F | F | F F | T | T T | F | T T | T | F The output is thus true if the inputs are not equal. If one input is false, the other is passed unchanged whereas if one input is true, the other is inverted. In Boolean algebra, exclusive or is often written as a plus in a circle: "⊕". The circle may be omitted suggesting addition modulo two. In digital logic, an exclusive or logic gate is drawn like a normal inclusive or gate but with a curved line across both inputs: {exclusive or gate " />.
- fire service — The fire service is an organization which has the job of putting out fires.
- food service — the preparation, delivery, serving, etc., of ready-to-eat foods: The cafeteria employs over 20 people in food service.
- full-service — offering or providing a wide range of services related to the basic line of business, as when a filling station changes tires or makes car repairs in addition to selling gasoline.
- harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
- heroic verse — a form of verse adapted to the treatment of heroic or exalted themes: in classical poetry, dactylic hexameter; in English and German, iambic pentameter; and in French, the Alexandrine. An example of heroic verse is Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring / Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing!
- inclusive or — the connective that gives the value true to a disjunction if either or both of the disjuncts are true
- inconversant — Not conversant or acquainted (with something); unfamiliar.
- incrassative — A substance which has the power to thicken; formerly, a medicine supposed to thicken the humours.
- ingravescent — (esp of a disease) becoming more severe
- inobservance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- insectivores — Plural form of insectivore.
- interservice — (US) Involving relationships between branches of the armed services.
- intravesical — Within the urinary bladder.
- irrelevances — Plural form of irrelevance.
- irrespective — without regard to something else, especially something specified; ignoring or discounting (usually followed by of): Irrespective of my wishes, I should go.
- jurisdictive — Jurisdictional.
- maid service — cleaner, cleaning business
- manu-service — denoting a business that involves both the manufacture of goods and the provision of after-sales services
- microgrooves — Plural form of microgroove.
- microvessels — Plural form of microvessel.
- misperceived — Simple past tense and past participle of misperceive.
- misperceives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misperceive.
- multiservice — involving two or more of the armed services
- news service — an agency that gathers news stories for its members or subscribers. Compare news agency (def 1), press association, wire service.
- noncorrosive — That does not cause corrosion.
- over-precise — definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed: precise directions.
- overcautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
- overclassify — to classify to excess
- overdiscount — to discount excessively
- overexercise — to exercise excessively
- overissuance — the act of issuing in excessive amounts
- overniceness — the quality of being overnice
- overstocking — to stock to excess: We are overstocked on this item.
- perivisceral — surrounding or situated about the viscera.
- perspectival — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
- pervicacious — extremely willful; obstinate; stubborn.
- prediscovery — a previous discovery
- prescriptive — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
- proclivities — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- proscriptive — the act of proscribing.
- quicksilvery — resembling quicksilver
- reactiveness — tending to react.
- reactivities — the quality or condition of being reactive.
- receivership — the condition of being in the hands of a receiver.