12-letter words containing e, v, c, t, i, o
- 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.
- proclivities — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- 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.
- psychoactive — of or relating to a substance having a profound or significant effect on mental processes: a psychoactive drug.
- reactivation — to render active again; revive.
- 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.
- 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.
- reproductive — serving to reproduce.
- retrodictive — of or relating to retrodicting or retrodiction
- serve notice — to give formal warning or information, as of intentions; announce
- turacoverdin — a green pigment found in certain feathers of the touraco
- unconductive — having the property or capability of conducting.
- unproductive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- unprotective — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- varia lectio — a variant reading.
- varicosities — the state or condition of being varicose.
- 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.
- ventnor city — a town in SE New Jersey.
- verification — the act of verifying.
- vesiculation — characterized by or covered with vesicles.
- visceromotor — of or relating to the normal movements of the viscera, especially the digestive tract.
- viscerotonia — a personality type characterized by hedonism and conviviality: said to be correlated with an endomorph body type
- viscerotonic — of, relating to, or possessing the character traits typical of viscerotonia
- viscoelastic — pertaining to a substance having both viscous and elastic properties.
- vitellogenic — producing or stimulating the formation of yolk
- vociferation — noisy outcry; clamor.
- vociferosity — the characteristic of being vociferous
- voix celeste — an organ stop having for each note two pipes tuned to slightly different pitches and producing a wavering, gentle tone.
- voltaic cell — cell1 (def 7a).
- voltaic pile — an early battery cell, consisting of several metal disks, each made of one of two dissimilar metals, arranged in an alternating series, and separated by pads moistened with an electrolyte.
- 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.
- white clover — a clover, Trifolium repens, having white flowers, common in pastures and meadows.
- xenoreactive — (immunology) That generates a reaction to material from another species.