12-letter words containing r, e, v, a, c
- elevator car — a compartment which carries people from floor to floor in a building via a vertical shaft
- endocervical — Within a cervix.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- equivocatory — Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation.
- everchanging — Which changes frequently and, presumably, will continue to do so forever.
- eviscerating — Present participle of eviscerate.
- evisceration — A disemboweling; the removal of viscera.
- extractively — in an extractive manner
- extravagance — Lack of restraint in spending money or use of resources.
- extravagancy — (archaic, 17-19th centuries) The characteristic of being extravagant.
- facial nerve — either one of the seventh pair of cranial nerves composed of motor fibers that control muscles of the face except those used in chewing.
- french leave — Sometimes Offensive. a departure without ceremony, permission, or notice: Taking French leave, he evaded his creditors.
- geneva cross — a red Greek cross on a white background, displayed to distinguish ambulances, hospitals, and persons belonging to the Red Cross Society.
- grave accent — a mark ( ˋ ) used to indicate:
- gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
- gravity cell — a cell containing two electrolytes that have different specific gravities.
- half-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
- haricot vert — green bean.
- harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
- hever castle — a Tudor mansion near Edenbridge in Kent: home of Anne Boleyn before her marriage; Italian garden added in the 20th century by the Astor family
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- inadvertence — the quality or condition of being inadvertent; heedlessness.
- inadvertency — inadvertence.
- inconversant — Not conversant or acquainted (with something); unfamiliar.
- incrassative — A substance which has the power to thicken; formerly, a medicine supposed to thicken the humours.
- ingravescent — (esp of a disease) becoming more severe
- inobservance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- intervocalic — (usually of a consonant) immediately following a vowel and preceding a vowel, as the v in cover.
- intravesical — Within the urinary bladder.
- invercargill — a city on S South Island, in New Zealand.
- irrelevances — Plural form of irrelevance.
- japan clover — a drought-resistant bush clover, Lespedeza striata, of the legume family, introduced to the southern Atlantic states from Asia, having numerous tiny trifoliate leaves valued for pasturage and hay.
- java archive — (file format, filename extension) (jar) A compressed archive file containing Java class files, filename extension: ".jar". The Java Development Kit contains a tool called "jar" for creating .jar files, similar to the standard Unix tar command. As well as archiving and compressing the Java class files, it also inserts a "manifest" file which can contain information about the class files, such as a digital signature. Combining class files into a single archive file makes it possible to download them in a single HTTP transaction. This, and the compression, speeds up execution of Java programs delivered via the Internet. (2001}-02-03)
- jordan curve — simple closed curve.
- laffer curve — a relationship postulated between tax rates and tax receipts indicating that rates above a certain level actually produce less revenue because they discourage taxable endeavors and vice versa.
- 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)
- maid service — cleaner, cleaning business
- manu-service — denoting a business that involves both the manufacture of goods and the provision of after-sales services
- microwavable — Of food, that is suitable for cooking in a microwave oven.
- movie camera — motion-picture camera
- non-achiever — a person who consistently fails to achieve, esp academically
- non-curative — serving to cure or heal; pertaining to curing or remedial treatment; remedial.
- non-reactive — tending to react.
- nonrevocable — Not revocable.
- nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
- normal curve — a bell-shaped curve showing a particular distribution of probability over the values of a random variable. Also called Gaussian curve, probability curve.
- olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.
- oven cleaner — a liquid, often foam in an aerosol container, designed to clean ovens
- overabstract — thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea.