12-letter words containing i, n, c, v
- interdictive — Having the power to prohibit.
- interjective — Interjectional.
- interservice — (US) Involving relationships between branches of the armed services.
- 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.
- intravesical — Within the urinary bladder.
- introductive — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
- invercargill — a city on S South Island, in New Zealand.
- invocational — Of or relating to an act of invocation.
- irrelevances — Plural form of irrelevance.
- jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
- kelvin scale — William Thomson, 1st Baron, 1824–1907, English physicist and mathematician.
- kidney vetch — an Old World plant, Anthyllis vulneraria, of the legume family, formerly used as a remedy for kidney diseases.
- lever-action — (of a rifle) having a lever action.
- living space — home: rooms, etc.
- 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.
- machiavelian — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
- manu-service — denoting a business that involves both the manufacture of goods and the provision of after-sales services
- markov chain — a Markov process restricted to discrete random events or to discontinuous time sequences.
- mexican wave — If a crowd of people do a Mexican wave, each person in the crowd stands up and puts their arms in the air after the person to one side of them, creating a continuous wave-like motion through the crowd.
- misconceived — Simple past tense and past participle of misconceive.
- misconceives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misconceive.
- multivalence — Chemistry. having a valence of three or higher.
- nasal cavity — sinus
- negativistic — a negative or pessimistic attitude.
- news service — an agency that gathers news stories for its members or subscribers. Compare news agency (def 1), press association, wire service.
- 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.
- nonconducive — tending to produce; contributive; helpful; favorable (usually followed by to): Good eating habits are conducive to good health.
- noncorrosive — That does not cause corrosion.
- nondeceptive — not deceptive
- nondeductive — not related to deduction or subtraction
- nondirective — Not directive.