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12-letter words containing c, r, i, v

  • unattractive — providing pleasure or delight, especially in appearance or manner; pleasing; charming; alluring: an attractive personality.
  • unchivalrous — having the qualities of chivalry, as courage, courtesy, and loyalty.
  • 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 choral — a member of the clergy or a layperson in a cathedral who sings certain parts of the service.
  • 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
  • victoria day — (in Canada) the first Monday preceding May 25, observed as a national holiday.
  • victorianism — the distinctive character, thought, tendencies, etc., of the Victorian period.
  • victoriously — having achieved a victory; conquering; triumphant: our victorious army.
  • victory roll — a roll of an aircraft made by a pilot to announce or celebrate the shooting down of an enemy plane or other cause for celebration
  • victory ship — a fast, turbine-powered cargo ship of World War II, having a capacity of about 11,000 dead-weight tons.
  • 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.
  • video piracy — the unauthorized or prohibited use of audio-visual works covered by copyright law, in a way that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works
  • video screen — screen (def 5).
  • video-record — to record (programs, broadcasts, or the like) on videotape or videodisk.
  • vindicatress — a female vindicator
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