12-letter words containing e, v, c
- courtly love — a tradition represented in Western European literature between the 12th and the 14th centuries, idealizing love between a knight and a revered (usually married) lady
- cover charge — A cover charge is a sum of money that you must pay in some restaurants and nightclubs in addition to the money that you pay there for your food and drink.
- cover ground — to move or traverse a certain distance
- cover letter — A cover letter is the same as a covering letter.
- covert cloth — a twill-weave cotton or worsted suiting fabric
- covetiveness — acquisitiveness
- covetousness — inordinately or wrongly desirous of wealth or possessions; greedy.
- cradle vault — barrel vault.
- crane driver — a person who drives a crane
- craveability — (especially of a food) having qualities that engender an intense desire for more: All too often, salt, sugar, fat, and “crunch” make a food craveable.
- creativeness — having the quality or power of creating.
- creativities — the state or quality of being creative.
- crospovidone — Crospovidone is a substance used in tablets as a binder or disintegrant.
- cross volley — (in tennis) a volley across the court
- cross-staves — an instrument for measuring the angle of elevation of heavenly bodies, consisting of a calibrated staff with another shorter staff perpendicular to and sliding on it.
- cryopreserve — to preserve (living tissue) at a very low temperature
- cuiaba-river — a river in SW Brazil. About 300 miles (485 km) long.
- cultivatable — Cultivable.
- culvertailed — dove-tailed
- cum dividend — (of shares, etc) with the right to current dividend
- cumulatively — increasing or growing by accumulation or successive additions: the cumulative effect of one rejection after another.
- curb service — service, for example, from a restaurant to customers in vehicles parked at the curb
- curvicaudate — having a curved tail
- curvicostate — having curved ribs
- curvifoliate — having leaves curved or bent back
- cutaway dive — a back dive in which the diver rotates the body to enter the water headfirst facing the springboard.
- cycle server — (jargon) A powerful computer that exists primarily for running large batch jobs. The term implies that interactive tasks such as editing are done on other machines on the network, such as workstations.
- cyma reversa — a cyma whose convex part projects beyond the concave part.
- cypress vine — a tropical American convolvulaceous climbing plant, Ipomoea pennata, having finely divided compound leaves and scarlet or white tubular flowers
- czechoslovak — Czechoslovak means belonging or relating to the former state of Czechoslovakia.
- deactivating — Present participle of deactivate.
- deactivation — The act of deactivating something, such as a bomb.
- debt service — the amount set aside annually in a fund to pay the interest and the part of the principal due on a debt.
- decemvirates — Plural form of decemvirate.
- decisiveness — having the power or quality of deciding; putting an end to controversy; crucial or most important: Your argument was the decisive one.
- decongestive — having the ability to ease crowding or clogging in busy locations
- decoratively — In a decorative manner.
- deliverances — Plural form of deliverance.
- demand curve — A demand curve is a graph showing the price of an item and the amount consumers want to buy.
- denunciative — Denunciatory.
- depreciative — Tending to depreciate (in value etc.).
- descriptives — Plural form of descriptive.
- detector van — a vehicle fitted with equipment that detects whether or not a house has a television. This is used to catch people who have not paid for a television licence and so are illegally using a television
- deux chevaux — a very small, inexpensive automobile
- devil's club — a spiny shrub, Oplopanax horridus, of northwestern North America, having broad palmate leaves, greenish flowers, and clusters of bright red berries.
- discoverable — 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.
- discoverment — (obsolete) discovery.
- discoverture — the state of being discovert; freedom from coverture.
- discretively — in a discretive manner
- discursively — In a discursive manner.