12-letter words containing i, n, c, o, v
- equivocation — The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication.
- evisceration — A disemboweling; the removal of viscera.
- excavational — Relating to excavation.
- gingivectomy — surgical removal of gum tissue.
- give offence — to cause annoyance or displeasure to someone
- graving dock — an excavated shore dry dock for the repair and maintenance of ships.
- 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.
- inactivation — The process of rendering something inactive.
- 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.
- insectivores — Plural form of insectivore.
- interconvert — to subject to interconversion; interchange.
- intervocalic — (usually of a consonant) immediately following a vowel and preceding a vowel, as the v in cover.
- intoxicative — of or relating to intoxicants or intoxication.
- introductive — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
- invocational — Of or relating to an act of invocation.
- jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
- lever-action — (of a rifle) having a lever action.
- lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
- lovesickness — Quality or property of being lovesick.
- markov chain — a Markov process restricted to discrete random events or to discontinuous time sequences.
- misconceived — Simple past tense and past participle of misconceive.
- misconceives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misconceive.
- no vacancies — No vacancies is used on a notice at a hotel or guest house when there are no rooms available to rent.
- nomenclative — relating to the act of naming
- non-achiever — a person who consistently fails to achieve, esp academically
- non-activist — an especially active, vigorous advocate of a cause, especially a political cause.
- non-civilian — a person who is not on active duty with a military, naval, police, or fire fighting organization.
- non-cohesive — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
- non-curative — serving to cure or heal; pertaining to curing or remedial treatment; remedial.
- non-elective — pertaining to the principle of electing to an office, position, etc.
- non-reactive — tending to react.
- non-violence — absence or lack of violence; state or condition of avoiding violence.
- nonactivated — not activated,
- nonaddictive — producing or tending to cause addiction: an addictive drug.
- nonaffective — of, caused by, or expressing emotion or feeling; emotional.
- noncausative — Not causative.
- noncivilized — Not civilized.
- noncognitive — of or relating to cognition; concerned with the act or process of knowing, perceiving, etc. : cognitive development; cognitive functioning.
- noncollusive — involving collusion; fraudulently contrived by agreement: a collusive agreement to increase prices.
- noncombative — Not combative.