12-letter words containing c, r, i, v
- pelvic floor — muscles beneath the pelvis
- perceptively — having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition: a perceptive analysis of the problems involved.
- perceptivity — having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition: a perceptive analysis of the problems involved.
- perfectively — in a perfective manner; thoroughly
- perfectivity — the state or quality of being (a) perfective
- perfectivize — to make perfective.
- 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.
- petrifactive — having the ability to turn substances into stone
- picornavirus — any of a group of small, RNA-containing viruses of the family Picornaviridae, infectious to humans and other animals, and including the poliovirus and the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold.
- pig receiver — A pig receiver is a device to get a pig out of a pipeline without interrupting flow.
- pocket drive — a small portable memory device that can be plugged into the USB port of many different types of computer
- preconceived — to form a conception or opinion of beforehand, as before seeing evidence or as a result of previously held prejudice.
- predictively — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
- prediscovery — a previous discovery
- prescriptive — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
- prevaricator — a person who speaks falsely; liar.
- 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.
- pro-activity — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- proclivities — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- productivity — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
- projectivity — of or relating to projection.
- proscriptive — the act of proscribing.
- protectively — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- provincetown — a town at the tip of Cape Cod, in SE Massachusetts: resort.
- provincewide — covering or available to the whole of a province
- provincially — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- putrefactive — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- pyruvic acid — a water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 4 O 3 , important in many metabolic and fermentative processes, having an odor resembling that of acetic acid, prepared by the dehydration of tartaric acid: used chiefly in biochemical research.
- quicksilvery — resembling quicksilver
- radicivorous — feeding on the roots of plants
- ravioli code — (jargon, humour) Object-oriented code consisting of a number of small and loosely-coupled software components. Presumably, the term is a compliment, contrasting the code with spaghetti code.
- re-educative — of or relating to re-education
- reactivation — to render active again; revive.
- reactiveness — tending to react.
- reactivities — the quality or condition of being reactive.
- receivership — the condition of being in the hands of a receiver.
- recidivistic — repeated or habitual relapse, as into crime.
- reconceiving — to form (a notion, opinion, purpose, etc.): He conceived the project while he was on vacation.
- reconvention — an action brought by the defendant in pending litigation against the plaintiff: the defendant's claim must be connected in some way with the subject matter of the plaintiff's action.
- reconversion — to convert again.
- reconviction — a fixed or firm belief: No clever argument, no persuasive fact or theory could make a dent in his conviction in the rightness of his position.
- recreatively — to refresh by means of relaxation and enjoyment, as restore physically or mentally.
- recuperative — that recuperates.
- rediscoverer — a person who rediscovers
- reflectively — that reflects; reflecting.
- reflectivity — that reflects; reflecting.
- refractivity — the power to refract.