11-letter words containing r, i, v, e, c
- prevenience — the act or state of being prevenient
- pro-vaccine — any preparation used as a preventive inoculation to confer immunity against a specific disease, usually employing an innocuous form of the disease agent, as killed or weakened bacteria or viruses, to stimulate antibody production.
- proactively — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- procreative — to beget or generate (offspring).
- prospective — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- protractive — to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.
- provenience — provenance; origin; source.
- providences — a seaport in and the capital of Rhode Island, in the NE part, at the head of Narragansett Bay.
- provocative — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- quicksilver — the metallic element mercury.
- radioactive — of, pertaining to, exhibiting, or caused by radioactivity.
- reactivated — to render active again; revive.
- receivables — the part of the assets of a business represented by accounts due for payment
- receptively — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- receptivity — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- reclusively — in a reclusive manner, as or like a recluse; reclusely
- recultivate — to plant, tend, harvest, or improve (plants) again
- recursively — pertaining to or using a rule or procedure that can be applied repeatedly.
- rediscovery — the act or an instance of discovering.
- reductively — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
- reductivism — reductionism.
- reluctivity — the tendency of a magnetic circuit to conduct magnetic flux, equal to the reciprocal of the permeability of the circuit.
- replicative — characterized by or capable of replication, especially of an experiment.
- restrictive — tending or serving to restrict.
- retroactive — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
- revaccinate — to vaccinate (a person or animal) again
- revendicate — to reclaim or demand the restoring of (something)
- revictualed — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- review copy — a copy of a book sent by a publisher to a journal, newspaper, etc, to enable it to be reviewed
- revindicate — to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
- revivescent — reviving
- reviviscent — the act or state of being revived; revival; reanimation.
- rice weevil — a brown weevil, Sitophilus oryzae, that infests, breeds in, and feeds on stored grains, especially rice.
- river birch — a tree, Betula nigra, of the eastern U.S., having papery, reddish-brown bark that peels away.
- rocky river — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- screwdriver — a hand tool for turning a screw, consisting of a handle attached to a long, narrow shank, usually of metal, which tapers and flattens out to a tip that fits into the slotted head of a screw.
- scuba diver — sb who dives underwater
- secretively — having or showing a disposition to secrecy; reticent: He seems secretive about his new job.
- service ace — ace (def 3a).
- service bus — a public bus with a regular route
- service cap — a saucer-shaped uniform cap with a visor, standard in the U.S. Army and Air Force.
- service dog — a dog trained to assist a person with a disability that is not related to vision or hearing.
- serviceable — capable of or being of service; useful.
- serviceless — not providing service; useless
- silver disc — (in Britain) an album certified to have sold 60 000 copies or a single certified to have sold 200 000 copies
- silverchair — Australian rock group (formed 1994): comprising Daniel Johns (born 1979; vocals, guitar), Ben Gillies (born 1979, drums) and Chris Joannou (born 1979, bass guitar); their albums include Frogstomp (1995) and Young Modern (2007)
- spirit cave — an archaeological site in Thailand that has produced evidence of very early plant domestication in Southeast Asia, dated c7000 b.c.
- subcurative — of a dosage which is not strong enough to have a curing effect
- subtractive — tending to subtract; having power to subtract.
- subvertical — being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.