12-letter words containing t, r, a, v
- attractivity — The quality or degree of attractive power or influence.
- autoreactive — (immunology, medicine) Acting against the organism by which it was produced.
- avascularity — the condition of having few blood vessels or of being without blood vessels
- averruncator — a long pair of shears used for pruning the higher branches of trees
- aviculturist — A person who keeps and rears (breeds) birds.
- avuncularity — the condition of being an uncle
- barrel vault — a vault in the form of a half cylinder
- bartlesville — a city in NE Oklahoma.
- basketweaver — a person who advocates simple, natural, and unsophisticated living
- beaver cloth — beaver1 (def 8).
- beaver state — Oregon (used as a nickname).
- beta version — beta testing
- bond servant — a person who serves in bondage; slave.
- brevicaudate — having a short tail.
- brevipennate — (of flightless birds) short-winged
- buck private — a common soldier
- buenaventura — a major port in W Colombia, on the Pacific coast. Pop: 250 000 (2005 est)
- cantilevered — A cantilevered structure is constructed using cantilevers.
- canton river — Zhu Jiang.
- captive-bred — bred in captivity
- car-crash tv — television programmes that show deliberately controversial, disturbing, or horrific material
- caravan site — A caravan site is an area of land where people can stay in a caravan on holiday, or where people live in caravans.
- cardioactive — of or relating to a drug or other substance affecting the function of the heart.
- carvel-built — (of a vessel) having a hull with planks made flush at the seams
- cash-starved — A cash-starved company or organization does not have enough money to operate properly, usually because another organization, such as the government, is not giving them the money that they need.
- cattle drive — the process of moving cattle across country, often carried out by cowboys on horseback
- cave cricket — any of several nocturnal, wingless, cricketlike long-horned grasshoppers of the family Gryllacrididae, characterized by a humpbacked appearance and inhabiting dark moist habitats, as caves, cellars, hollow trees, and the ground under logs and stones.
- centumvirate — the office of the centumviri
- cerivastatin — A synthetic statin formerly used to lower cholesterol and prevent cardiovascular disease, later withdrawn due to the risk of rhabdomyolysis.
- chakravartin — (in Indian philosophy, politics, etc.) an ideal, universal, enlightened ruler, under whom the world exists in justice and peace.
- christian iv — 1577–1648, king of Denmark and Norway (1588–1648): defeated in the Thirty Years' War (1629) and by Sweden (1645)
- clairvoyants — Plural form of clairvoyant.
- clavieristic — relating to a clavier
- co-operative — A co-operative is a business or organization run by the people who work for it, or owned by the people who use it. These people share its benefits and profits.
- coacervation — a reversible, emulsoid stage existing between the sol and gel formations, in which the addition of a third substance causes the separation of the sol into two immiscible liquid phases: an essential stage in the formation of proteins, antibodies, etc.
- comparatives — Plural form of comparative.
- confirmative — serving to confirm; corroborative.
- conformative — (nonstandard) Tending to conform; conforming.
- conservating — Present participle of conservate.
- conservation — Conservation is saving and protecting the environment.
- conservatism — Conservatism is a political philosophy which believes that if changes need to be made to society, they should be made gradually. You can also refer to the political beliefs of a conservative party in a particular country as Conservatism.
- conservative — A Conservative politician or voter is a member of or votes for the Conservative Party in Britain.
- conservatize — to make or become conservative
- conservators — Plural form of conservator.
- conservatory — A conservatory is a room with glass walls and a glass roof, which is attached to a house. People often grow plants in a conservatory.
- conservatrix — a woman who conserves or keeps safe; custodian
- contraoctave — the octave that begins on the third C below middle C and ends on the second C below middle C
- contravening — to come or be in conflict with; go or act against; deny or oppose: to contravene a statement.
- contrivances — Plural form of contrivance.
- controversal — (obsolete, rare) Facing opposite directions.