12-letter words containing o, p, a, c
- uncomplicate — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
- uncomposable — not fit for composition
- uncomputable — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
- undiplomatic — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
- unimportance — a lack of importance
- unpoetically — in an unpoetic manner
- unprocedural — not procedural, not following proper procedures
- unproclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- unprocurable — obtainable.
- unreciprocal — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
- unrecoupable — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
- unreproached — not reproached, criticized, or scolded
- unsyncopated — marked by syncopation: syncopated rhythm.
- up-and-comer — likely to succeed; bright and industrious: an up-and-coming young executive.
- vacation pay — salary paid during holidays
- valpolicella — a dry, red table wine from the Veneto region of northern Italy.
- vaporescence — production or formation of vapor.
- variocoupler — a transformer having coils with a self-impedance that is essentially constant but a mutual impedance that can be varied by moving one coil with respect to the other.
- vector space — an additive group in which addition is commutative and with which is associated a field of scalars, as the field of real numbers, such that the product of a scalar and an element of the group or a vector is defined, the product of two scalars times a vector is associative, one times a vector is the vector, and two distributive laws hold.
- velocipedean — someone who rides a velocipede
- velociraptor — a small carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Velociraptor , from the late Cretaceous period, capable of leaping, and growing to a length of about 6 feet (2 meters), having feathers, a flat snout, short forelimbs with large handlike talons, and a large sickle-shaped claw on each foot.
- video piracy — the unauthorized or prohibited use of audio-visual works covered by copyright law, in a way that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works
- voltaic pile — an early battery cell, consisting of several metal disks, each made of one of two dissimilar metals, arranged in an alternating series, and separated by pads moistened with an electrolyte.
- wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements
- wapsipinicon — a river in E Iowa, flowing SE to the Mississippi River. 255 miles (410 km) long.
- watch pocket — a small pocket in a garment, as in a vest or trousers, for holding a pocket watch, change, etc. Compare fob1 (def 1).
- water pocket — a cavity at the foot of a cliff formed by the falling action of an intermittent stream.
- wild apricot — apricot (def 4).
- wrap account — a personally managed investment account where charges are levied on the basis of the account's total assets.
- yachtspeople — Plural form of yachtsperson.
- yachtsperson — A yachtsman or yachtswoman.