12-letter words containing s, c, i, v
- quicksilvery — resembling quicksilver
- radicivorous — feeding on the roots of plants
- reactiveness — tending to react.
- reactivities — the quality or condition of being reactive.
- receivership — the condition of being in the hands of a receiver.
- recidivistic — repeated or habitual relapse, as into crime.
- reconversion — to convert again.
- rediscoverer — a person who rediscovers
- relativistic — of or relating to relativity or relativism.
- repercussive — causing repercussion; reverberating.
- respectively — in precisely the order given; sequentially.
- resurrective — of or relating to resurrection
- reviviscence — the act or state of being revived; revival; reanimation.
- room service — the serving of food, drinks, etc., to a guest in his or her room, as at a hotel.
- rostropovich — Mstislav (Leopoldovich) [mis-tuh-slahv lee-uh-pohl-duh-vich;; Russian mstyi-slahf lyi-uh-pawl-duh-vyich] /ˈmɪs təˌslɑv ˌli əˈpoʊl də vɪtʃ;; Russian mstyɪˈslɑf lyɪ əˈpɔl də vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1927–2007, Soviet cellist and conductor (husband of Galina Vishnevskaya).
- salk vaccine — a vaccine that contains three types of inactivated poliomyelitis viruses and induces immunity against the disease.
- salvifically — in a saving manner
- saving grace — a quality that makes up for other generally negative characteristics; redeeming feature.
- scandinavian — of or relating to Scandinavia, its inhabitants, or their languages.
- scavengering — scavenging
- schererville — a town in NW Indiana.
- scheveningen — a town in the W Netherlands, near The Hague: seaside resort.
- scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder
- scrive board — a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.
- scuba diving — deep-sea swimming
- security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
- seismic wave — a wave of energy that is generated by an earthquake or other earth vibration and that travels within the earth or along its surface.
- self-service — the serving of oneself in a restaurant, shop, gas station, or other facility, without the aid of a waiter, clerk, attendant, etc.
- serve notice — to give formal warning or information, as of intentions; announce
- service area — motorway facilities
- service book — a book containing the forms of worship used in divine services.
- service club — any of several organizations dedicated to the growth and general welfare of its members and the community.
- service flat — an apartment with complete hotel services.
- service game — a game in which a particular tennis player is the one who serves
- service lift — a lift which carries heavy goods in a place of business, as for example, plates in a restaurant
- service line — Tennis. the rear boundary of a service court.
- service mark — a proprietary term, such as Blue Cross and Blue Shield, American Express, or Planned Parenthood, that is registered with the Patent and Trademark Office. Abbreviation: SM.
- service pipe — a pipe connecting a building with a water or gas main.
- service road — frontage road.
- service tree — either of two European trees, Sorbus domestica, bearing a small, acid fruit that is edible when overripe, or S. torminalis (wild service tree) bearing a similar fruit.
- serviceberry — the fruit of any service tree.
- servicewoman — a woman who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- shostakovich — Dimitri Dimitrievich [dih-mee-tree di-mee-tree-uh-vich;; Russian dmyee-tryee dmyee-tryi-yi-vyich] /dɪˈmi tri dɪˈmi tri ə vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈdmyi tryi ˈdmyi tryɪ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1906–75, Russian composer.
- silver birch — tree with silvery-white bark
- silver perch — Also called mademoiselle. Ichthyology. a drum, Bairdiella chrysoura, of southern U.S. waters.
- silviculture — the cultivation of forest trees; forestry.
- sivapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene primates of Asia that resemble the modern orangutan.
- space-saving — that saves space.
- spring vetch — any of several mostly climbing plants belonging to the genus Vicia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves ending in tendrils and bearing pealike flowers, especially V. sativa (spring vetch) cultivated for forage and soil improvement.
- stupefactive — serving to stupefy.