12-letter words containing c, r, i, v, e
- subscriptive — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
- subservience — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
- subserviency — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
- surveillance — a watch kept over a person, group, etc., especially over a suspect, prisoner, or the like: The suspects were under police surveillance.
- swivel chair — a chair whose seat turns around horizontally on a swivel.
- sylviculture — the cultivation of forest trees; forestry.
- teleservices — any services available through teletext
- the services — the armed forces
- truck driver — sb employed to drive a lorry
- tsesarevitch — (in Russian history) the eldest son of a tsar or his heir apparent
- turacoverdin — a green pigment found in certain feathers of the touraco
- unattractive — providing pleasure or delight, especially in appearance or manner; pleasing; charming; alluring: an attractive personality.
- uncoercively — in an uncoercive manner
- uncreativity — the state or quality of being creative.
- underachieve — to perform, especially academically, below the potential indicated by tests of one's mental ability or aptitude.
- 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.
- unperceptive — having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition: a perceptive analysis of the problems involved.
- unpredictive — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
- unproductive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- unprotective — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- unreflective — not reflective; thoughtless; lacking in due deliberation; heedless; rash: a sweeping, unreflective pessimism.
- unrespective — not attentive; unheeding
- uv ceti star — flare star.
- valeric acid — any of several isomeric organic acids having the formula C 5 H 10 O 2 , the common one being a liquid of pungent odor obtained from valerian roots: used chiefly as an intermediate in perfumery.
- van riebeeck — Jan, full name Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck. 1619–77, Dutch colonial administrator. Founder of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope (1652)
- 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.
- vascularised — (of a tissue or embryo) to develop or extend blood vessels or other fluid-bearing vessels or ducts; become vascular.
- vascularized — rendered vascular by the formation of new blood vessels.
- 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.
- venipuncture — the puncture of a vein for surgical or therapeutic purposes or for collecting blood specimens for analysis.
- ventnor city — a town in SE New Jersey.
- vereshchagin — Vasili Vasilievich [vuh-syee-lyee vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /vʌˈsyi lyi vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1842–1904, Russian painter.
- verification — the act of verifying.
- vermiculture — the raising and production of earthworms and their by-products.
- verticalness — the quality or state of being vertical; uprightness
- verticillate — disposed in or forming verticils or whorls, as flowers or hairs.
- verticillium — a fungus in the Verticillium genus which normally affects plants or insects
- vesicularity — the quality or state of being vesicular
- vibratiuncle — a slight vibration
- vicar forane — dean1 (def 2b).
- vice admiral — a naval officer next in rank below an admiral.
- vice-admiral — a naval officer next in rank below an admiral.
- vice-premier — a person who deputizes for a premier and serves in his or her place during his or her absence or indisposition
- 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.