12-letter words containing o, c, t, a, v
- contravening — to come or be in conflict with; go or act against; deny or oppose: to contravene a statement.
- contrivances — Plural form of contrivance.
- controversal — (obsolete, rare) Facing opposite directions.
- convalescent — Convalescent means relating to convalescence.
- convectional — Physics. the transfer of heat by the circulation or movement of the heated parts of a liquid or gas.
- conventional — Someone who is conventional has behaviour or opinions that are ordinary and normal.
- conversating — to have a conversation; converse; talk.
- conversation — If you have a conversation with someone, you talk with them, usually in an informal situation.
- conversative — talkative
- convictional — a fixed or firm belief: No clever argument, no persuasive fact or theory could make a dent in his conviction in the rightness of his position.
- convivialist — friendly; agreeable: a convivial atmosphere.
- conviviality — friendly; agreeable: a convivial atmosphere.
- convocations — Plural form of convocation.
- cooperatives — Plural form of cooperative.
- coordinative — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- corbel vault — a structure having the form of a vault but constructed on the principle of a corbel arch.
- correlatives — Plural form of correlative.
- countervails — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countervail.
- countervalue — An equivalent or equal, especially in military strategy.
- cross-staves — an instrument for measuring the angle of elevation of heavenly bodies, consisting of a calibrated staff with another shorter staff perpendicular to and sliding on it.
- crown octavo — a size of book, about 5 × 7½ inches (13 × 19 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: crown 8vo.
- curvicostate — having curved ribs
- curvifoliate — having leaves curved or bent back
- curvirostral — having a curved or crooked beak
- deactivation — The act of deactivating something, such as a bomb.
- decoratively — In a decorative manner.
- 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
- dissociative — to sever the association of (oneself); separate: He tried to dissociate himself from the bigotry in his past.
- divarication — to spread apart; branch; diverge.
- edulcorative — edulcorant
- elevator car — a compartment which carries people from floor to floor in a building via a vertical shaft
- 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.
- haricot vert — green bean.
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- inactivation — The process of rendering something inactive.
- inchoatively — in an inchoative or rudimentary fashion; initially
- incogitative — Not cogitative; lacking the power of thought.
- inconversant — Not conversant or acquainted (with something); unfamiliar.
- 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.
- invocational — Of or relating to an act of invocation.
- kurchatovium — (chemistry) A rejected name for rutherfordium.
- 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)
- microgravity — a condition, especially in space orbit, where the force of gravity is so weak that weightlessness results.