12-letter words containing s, e, c, r, t, v
- insectivores — Plural form of insectivore.
- interservice — (US) Involving relationships between branches of the armed services.
- intravesical — Within the urinary bladder.
- irrespective — without regard to something else, especially something specified; ignoring or discounting (usually followed by of): Irrespective of my wishes, I should go.
- jurisdictive — Jurisdictional.
- multiservice — involving two or more of the armed services
- overabstract — thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea.
- overcautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
- overdiscount — to discount excessively
- overscutched — overworked; worn out
- overstocking — to stock to excess: We are overstocked on this item.
- perspectival — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
- prescriptive — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
- proclivities — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- proscriptive — the act of proscribing.
- pseudovector — a variable quantity, such as angular momentum, that has magnitude and orientation with respect to an axis. The components are even functions of the coordinates
- reactiveness — tending to react.
- reactivities — the quality or condition of being reactive.
- recidivistic — repeated or habitual relapse, as into crime.
- relativistic — of or relating to relativity or relativism.
- respectively — in precisely the order given; sequentially.
- resurrective — of or relating to resurrection
- security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
- serve notice — to give formal warning or information, as of intentions; announce
- service flat — an apartment with complete hotel services.
- service lift — a lift which carries heavy goods in a place of business, as for example, plates in a restaurant
- 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.
- servocontrol — control by means of a servomechanism.
- silviculture — the cultivation of forest trees; forestry.
- space travel — spaceflight of manned vehicles.
- 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.
- subscriptive — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
- sweet clover — melilot.
- sylviculture — the cultivation of forest trees; forestry.
- teleservices — any services available through teletext
- the services — the armed forces
- tsesarevitch — (in Russian history) the eldest son of a tsar or his heir apparent
- unconversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
- unrespective — not attentive; unheeding
- uv ceti star — flare star.
- varicosities — the state or condition of being varicose.
- vector boson — one of the three particles that are believed to transmit the weak force: the positively charged W particle, the negatively charged W particle, and the neutral Z 0 particle.
- vector space — an additive group in which addition is commutative and with which is associated a field of scalars, as the field of real numbers, such that the product of a scalar and an element of the group or a vector is defined, the product of two scalars times a vector is associative, one times a vector is the vector, and two distributive laws hold.
- velcro strip — a strip or roll of Velcro, able to be cut to the required length
- verticalness — the quality or state of being vertical; uprightness
- vesicularity — the quality or state of being vesicular
- vindicatress — a female vindicator
- visceromotor — of or relating to the normal movements of the viscera, especially the digestive tract.
- viscerotonia — a personality type characterized by hedonism and conviviality: said to be correlated with an endomorph body type
- viscerotonic — of, relating to, or possessing the character traits typical of viscerotonia