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12-letter words containing e, v, o, c

  • 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
  • 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.
  • dissociative — to sever the association of (oneself); separate: He tried to dissociate himself from the bigotry in his past.
  • divorce mill — a divorce court, especially such a court in a state or country that does not impose difficult requirements, as a long period of residence or humiliating grounds, on those who wish to dissolve their marriage.
  • drove chisel — a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
  • dusty clover — a bush clover, Lespedeza capitata.
  • dutch clover — white clover.
  • edulcorative — edulcorant
  • eigenvectors — Plural form of eigenvector.
  • electronvolt — (physics) alternative spelling of electron volt.
  • elevator car — a compartment which carries people from floor to floor in a building via a vertical shaft
  • endocervical — Within a cervix.
  • endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
  • equivocality — The quality of being equivocal.
  • equivocating — Present participle of equivocate.
  • equivocation — The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication.
  • equivocatory — Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation.
  • evisceration — A disemboweling; the removal of viscera.
  • excavational — Relating to excavation.
  • exclusive of — not including or allowing for; ignoring
  • exclusive or — (logic)   (XOR, EOR) /X or, E or/ A two-input function whose result is true if one input is true and the other is false. The truth table is A | B | A xor B --+---+-------- F | F | F F | T | T T | F | T T | T | F The output is thus true if the inputs are not equal. If one input is false, the other is passed unchanged whereas if one input is true, the other is inverted. In Boolean algebra, exclusive or is often written as a plus in a circle: "⊕". The circle may be omitted suggesting addition modulo two. In digital logic, an exclusive or logic gate is drawn like a normal inclusive or gate but with a curved line across both inputs: {exclusive or gate " />.
  • food service — the preparation, delivery, serving, etc., of ready-to-eat foods: The cafeteria employs over 20 people in food service.
  • food vacuole — a membrane-enclosed cell vacuole with a digestive function, containing material taken up in by the process of phagocytosis.
  • galvanoscope — an instrument for detecting the existence of an electric current and determining its direction.
  • geneva cross — a red Greek cross on a white background, displayed to distinguish ambulances, hospitals, and persons belonging to the Red Cross Society.
  • gift voucher — gift certificate.
  • gingivectomy — surgical removal of gum tissue.
  • give offence — to cause annoyance or displeasure to someone
  • give suck to — to give (a baby or young animal) milk from the breast or udder
  • gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
  • ground cover — the herbaceous plants and low shrubs in a forest, considered as a whole.
  • growth curve — a curve on a graph in which a variable is plotted against time to illustrate the growth of the variable
  • half-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
  • haricot vert — green bean.
  • have company — If you have company, you have a visitor or friend with you.
  • heroic verse — a form of verse adapted to the treatment of heroic or exalted themes: in classical poetry, dactylic hexameter; in English and German, iambic pentameter; and in French, the Alexandrine. An example of heroic verse is Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring / Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing!
  • hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
  • improvidence — not provident; lacking foresight; incautious; unwary.
  • inchoatively — in an inchoative or rudimentary fashion; initially
  • inclusive of — including; taking into account
  • inclusive or — the connective that gives the value true to a disjunction if either or both of the disjuncts are true
  • incogitative — Not cogitative; lacking the power of thought.
  • inconclusive — not conclusive; not resolving fully all doubts or questions: inconclusive evidence.
  • inconvenient — not easily accessible or at hand: The phone is in an inconvenient place.
  • inconversant — Not conversant or acquainted (with something); unfamiliar.
  • incorruptive — incorruptible; not tending to be corrupted
  • innocent vii — (Cosimo de' Migliorati) 1336–1406, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1404–06.
  • inobservance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
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