12-letter words containing s, c, i, v
- disincentive — something that discourages or deters; deterrent: High interest rates and government regulations are disincentives to investment.
- disjunctives — Plural form of disjunctive.
- disprivacied — deprived of privacy
- disservicing — harmful or injurious service; an ill turn.
- disseverance — The act of dissevering; separation.
- dissociative — to sever the association of (oneself); separate: He tried to dissociate himself from the bigotry in his past.
- divergencies — Plural form of divergency.
- drove chisel — a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
- duck-shoving — the evasion of responsibility by someone
- effervescing — Present participle of effervesce.
- effervescive — Tending to produce effervescence.
- eigenvectors — Plural form of eigenvector.
- electiveness — Quality of being elective.
- encaptivates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encaptivate.
- evangelicals — Plural form of evangelical.
- evangelistic — Seeking to convert others to the Christian faith; missionary.
- eviscerating — Present participle of eviscerate.
- evisceration — A disemboweling; the removal of viscera.
- exclusive of — not including or allowing for; ignoring
- exclusive or — (logic) (XOR, EOR) /X or, E or/ A two-input function whose result is true if one input is true and the other is false. The truth table is A | B | A xor B --+---+-------- F | F | F F | T | T T | F | T T | T | F The output is thus true if the inputs are not equal. If one input is false, the other is passed unchanged whereas if one input is true, the other is inverted. In Boolean algebra, exclusive or is often written as a plus in a circle: "⊕". The circle may be omitted suggesting addition modulo two. In digital logic, an exclusive or logic gate is drawn like a normal inclusive or gate but with a curved line across both inputs: {exclusive or gate " />.
- fire service — The fire service is an organization which has the job of putting out fires.
- food service — the preparation, delivery, serving, etc., of ready-to-eat foods: The cafeteria employs over 20 people in food service.
- fructivorous — Fruit-eating.
- full-service — offering or providing a wide range of services related to the basic line of business, as when a filling station changes tires or makes car repairs in addition to selling gasoline.
- give suck to — to give (a baby or young animal) milk from the breast or udder
- harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
- heroic verse — a form of verse adapted to the treatment of heroic or exalted themes: in classical poetry, dactylic hexameter; in English and German, iambic pentameter; and in French, the Alexandrine. An example of heroic verse is Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring / Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing!
- incentivised — Simple past tense and past participle of incentivise.
- incentivises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incentivise.
- incentivizes — to give incentives to: The government should incentivize the private sector to create jobs.
- incisiveness — penetrating; cutting; biting; trenchant: an incisive tone of voice.
- inclusive of — including; taking into account
- inclusive or — the connective that gives the value true to a disjunction if either or both of the disjuncts are true
- inconclusive — not conclusive; not resolving fully all doubts or questions: inconclusive evidence.
- 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.
- indecisively — characterized by indecision, as persons; irresolute; undecided.
- ingravescent — (esp of a disease) becoming more severe
- inobservance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- insectivores — Plural form of insectivore.
- insusceptive — insusceptible
- interservice — (US) Involving relationships between branches of the armed services.
- intravesical — Within the urinary bladder.
- irrelevances — Plural form of irrelevance.
- irrespective — without regard to something else, especially something specified; ignoring or discounting (usually followed by of): Irrespective of my wishes, I should go.
- jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
- jurisdictive — Jurisdictional.
- kelvin scale — William Thomson, 1st Baron, 1824–1907, English physicist and mathematician.
- lasciviously — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- living space — home: rooms, etc.