12-letter words containing k, i, v
- antitakeover — opposed to or acting against a takeover
- block caving — a method of mining a large block of ore by systematically undercutting so the ore will cave. Compare cave (def 5a).
- block voting — voting using block votes
- bolshevikism — the doctrines, methods, or procedure of the Bolsheviks.
- brick veneer — (in Australia) a timber-framed house with a brick exterior
- buck private — a common soldier
- carving fork — a large, two-tined fork with a metal guard to protect the hand, used to hold meat in place as it is being carved
- 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.
- cavity block — a precast concrete block that contains a cavity or cavities
- chakravartin — (in Indian philosophy, politics, etc.) an ideal, universal, enlightened ruler, under whom the world exists in justice and peace.
- chicken kiev — boned chicken breasts pounded until thin, wrapped around lumps of herbed butter, breaded, and fried in butter or deep fat, and usually served with kasha or brown rice
- cockeysville — a town in N Maryland.
- devil's mark — (in witchcraft) a mark, as a scar or blemish, on the body of a person who has made a compact with a devil.
- drink-driver — A drink-driver is someone who drives after drinking more than the amount of alcohol that is legally allowed.
- drunk driver — A drunk driver is someone who drives after drinking more than the amount of alcohol that is legally allowed.
- duck-shoving — the evasion of responsibility by someone
- eke a living — If you eke a living or eke out an existence, you manage to survive with very little money.
- frederick iv — Frederick III (def 1).
- geelvink bay — former (Dutch) name of Sarera Bay.
- give or take — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- give suck to — to give (a baby or young animal) milk from the breast or udder
- graving dock — an excavated shore dry dock for the repair and maintenance of ships.
- harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
- have kittens — to react with disapproval, anxiety, etc
- hopkinsville — a city in S Kentucky.
- intake valve — a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine that opens at the proper moment in the cycle to allow the fuel-air mixture to be drawn into the cylinder.
- jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
- kavir desert — Dasht-e-Kavir.
- 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.
- king vulture — a large, black-and-white vulture, Sarcorhamphus papa, of Central and South America, having colorful wattles and wartlike protuberances on its head and neck.
- koussevitzky — Serge [sairzh] /sɛərʒ/ (Show IPA), (Sergei Alexandrovich Koussevitsky) 1874–1951, Russian orchestra conductor in the U.S.
- kurchatovium — (chemistry) A rejected name for rutherfordium.
- leave-taking — a saying farewell; a parting or goodbye; departure: His leave-taking was brief.
- lepenski vir — the site of an advanced Mesolithic fishing culture on the banks of the Danube in Serbia, characterized by trapezoidal buildings and large stone sculptures of human heads and torsos.
- linked verse — a Japanese verse form in which stanzas of three lines alternating with stanzas of two lines are composed by two or more poets in alternation.
- linking verb — copula (def 2).
- lovesickness — Quality or property of being lovesick.
- make believe — the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
- make-believe — pretense, especially of an innocent or playful kind; feigning; sham: the make-believe of children playing.
- markov chain — a Markov process restricted to discrete random events or to discontinuous time sequences.
- milk-livered — timid; cowardly
- nevinnomyssk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, S of Stavropol.
- novorossiysk — a seaport in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Black Sea.
- overclocking — Computers. to modify (a hardware component, as a processor, graphics card, or memory) so as to increase the speed of that component beyond the specifications of the manufacturer: You can overclock your video card to improve its performance.
- overdrinking — Present participle of overdrink.
- overkindness — the quality of being too kind
- overstocking — to stock to excess: We are overstocked on this item.
- petach tikva — a city in W Israel, NE of Tel Aviv.
- pocket drive — a small portable memory device that can be plugged into the USB port of many different types of computer
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