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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.
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