12-letter words containing e, v, i, t
- appellatives — Plural form of appellative.
- apperceptive — conscious perception.
- appletviewer — (web, testing) A simplified web browser used for testing applets. You can't browse HTML with it but you can run applets to test them before embedding them in a web page.
- appreciative — An appreciative reaction or comment shows the enjoyment that you are getting from something.
- archive site — (networking) (Or "FTP site", "FTP archive") An Internet host where program source, documents, e-mail or news messages are stored for public access via anonymous FTP, Gopher, web or other document distribution system. There may be several archive sites (mirrors) for, e.g., a Usenet newsgroup though one may be recognised as the main one. FTP servers were common on the Internet for about ten years but have been largely replaced by web servers since the invention of the World-Wide Web and its HTTP protocol. Some well-known archive sites included Imperial College, UK, UUNET, USA, GNU archive site. The archie service attempted to index the contents of FTP archives, foreshadowing the indexing of the web by Google and others.
- arfvedsonite — a type of hornblende with the composition Na3(Fe,Mg)4FeSi8O22(OH)2
- arrival date — Your arrival date is the date that you are expected to come to a hotel or other location.
- arrival time — the time when someone or something arrives, arrived, or will arrive
- articulative — relating to articulation
- assaultively — in an assaultive manner
- asseverating — Present participle of asseverate.
- asseveration — the act of asseverating.
- asseverative — characterized by or relating to solemn declaration or affirmation
- assimilative — of or causing assimilation; assimilating
- assumptively — taken for granted.
- at intervals — If something happens at intervals, it happens several times with gaps or pauses in between.
- attractively — In an attractive manner; with the power of attracting or drawing to.
- augmentative — tending or able to augment
- autoreactive — (immunology, medicine) Acting against the organism by which it was produced.
- autumn olive — a spiny shrub (Elaeagnus umbellata) of the oleaster family, having leaves covered with silvery or brown scales
- bartlesville — a city in NE Oklahoma.
- beehive tomb — a type of subterranean tomb of the Mycenaean civilization consisting of a domed chamber entered by a passage through a hillside.
- beetle drive — a social occasion at which a progressive series of games of beetle is played
- benedict vii — died a.d. 983, pope 974–83.
- benedict xiv — (Prospero Lambertini) 1675–1758, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1740–58; scholar and patron of the arts.
- benedict xvi — original name Joseph Alois Ratzinger. born 1927 in Germany, pope (2005–2013): the first pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415: on retirement he was accorded the title pope emeritus
- beta version — beta testing
- biodiversity — Biodiversity is the existence of a wide variety of plant and animal species living in their natural environment.
- blue vitriol — the fully hydrated blue crystalline form of copper sulphate
- bolshevistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Bolshevists or Bolshevism.
- brevicaudate — having a short tail.
- brevipennate — (of flightless birds) short-winged
- buck private — a common soldier
- by virtue of — on account of or by reason of
- c'est la vie — that's life
- cantilevered — A cantilevered structure is constructed using cantilevers.
- canton river — Zhu Jiang.
- capacitively — (physics, electronics) In relation to or in terms of capacitance.
- capital levy — a tax on capital or property as contrasted with a tax on income
- captive-bred — bred in captivity
- caravan site — A caravan site is an area of land where people can stay in a caravan on holiday, or where people live in caravans.
- cardioactive — of or relating to a drug or other substance affecting the function of the heart.
- carvel-built — (of a vessel) having a hull with planks made flush at the seams
- casting vote — When a committee has given an equal number of votes for and against a proposal, the chairperson can give a casting vote. This vote decides whether or not the proposal will be passed.
- cattle drive — the process of moving cattle across country, often carried out by cowboys on horseback
- cave cricket — any of several nocturnal, wingless, cricketlike long-horned grasshoppers of the family Gryllacrididae, characterized by a humpbacked appearance and inhabiting dark moist habitats, as caves, cellars, hollow trees, and the ground under logs and stones.
- celestine iv — (Godfrey Castiglione) died 1241, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1241.
- centumvirate — the office of the centumviri
- cerivastatin — A synthetic statin formerly used to lower cholesterol and prevent cardiovascular disease, later withdrawn due to the risk of rhabdomyolysis.
- cervicectomy — (medicine) Surgical removal of the cervix.