12-letter words containing v, e, r
- craveability — (especially of a food) having qualities that engender an intense desire for more: All too often, salt, sugar, fat, and “crunch” make a food craveable.
- creativeness — having the quality or power of creating.
- creativities — the state or quality of being creative.
- crospovidone — Crospovidone is a substance used in tablets as a binder or disintegrant.
- cross volley — (in tennis) a volley across the court
- cross-staves — an instrument for measuring the angle of elevation of heavenly bodies, consisting of a calibrated staff with another shorter staff perpendicular to and sliding on it.
- cryopreserve — to preserve (living tissue) at a very low temperature
- cuiaba-river — a river in SW Brazil. About 300 miles (485 km) long.
- culvertailed — dove-tailed
- curb service — service, for example, from a restaurant to customers in vehicles parked at the curb
- curvicaudate — having a curved tail
- curvicostate — having curved ribs
- curvifoliate — having leaves curved or bent back
- cycle server — (jargon) A powerful computer that exists primarily for running large batch jobs. The term implies that interactive tasks such as editing are done on other machines on the network, such as workstations.
- cyma reversa — a cyma whose convex part projects beyond the concave part.
- cypress vine — a tropical American convolvulaceous climbing plant, Ipomoea pennata, having finely divided compound leaves and scarlet or white tubular flowers
- danube river — a river in central and SE Europe, flowing E from southern Germany to the Black Sea. 1725 miles (2775 km) long.
- daredeviltry — reckless daring; venturesome boldness.
- david souter — David H. born 1939, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1990–2009.
- david turner — (person) Professor David A Turner. One of the pioneers of functional languages. He designed several languages, including, SASL (1976), KRC (1981), and Miranda, many of which were implemented using combinators and the S-K reduction machine which he defined. He coined the name "ZF expression" for the list comprehension. He worked at UKC and set up a company, Research Software Limited to market Miranda.
- debt service — the amount set aside annually in a fund to pay the interest and the part of the principal due on a debt.
- decemvirates — Plural form of decemvirate.
- decoratively — In a decorative manner.
- degenerative — A degenerative disease or condition is one that gets worse as time progresses.
- degressively — in a degressive fashion
- deleveraging — an instance of this: The economic crisis has forced a deleverage.
- deliberative — A deliberative institution or procedure has the power or the right to make important decisions.
- deliverables — items named in a contract, course, or project that must be delivered for its successful completion
- deliverances — Plural form of deliverance.
- delivery boy — a boy or youth who delivers merchandise for a store, as to the homes or offices of customers.
- delivery van — a small van used esp for delivery rounds
- demand curve — A demand curve is a graph showing the price of an item and the amount consumers want to buy.
- demo version — 1. An early, barely-functional version of a program which can be used for demonstration purposes as long as the operator uses *exactly* the right commands and skirts its numerous bugs, deficiencies, and unimplemented portions. 2. A special version of a finished program (frequently with some features crippled) which is distributed at little or no cost to the user for enticement purposes. See crippleware.
- dengue-fever — an infectious, eruptive fever of warm climates, usually epidemic, characterized especially by severe pains in the joints and muscles.
- depo-provera — a synthetic progestogen, C24H34O4, used to treat uterine or kidney cancer, to prevent conception for long periods, etc.
- depravedness — The state of being depraved; depravity.
- depreciative — Tending to depreciate (in value etc.).
- depressively — In a depressive manner.
- deprivations — Plural form of deprivation.
- derisiveness — (uncountable) The condition of being derisive.
- derivability — The condition of being derivable.
- derivational — Of or pertaining to derivation; relating to that which is derived.
- derivatively — derived.
- derived form — derivative (def 4).
- derived type — (programming) A type constructed from primitive types or other derived types using a type constructor function. This term is usually applied to procedural languages such as C or Ada. C's derived types are the array, function, pointer, structure, and union. Compare derived class.
- derived unit — a unit of measurement obtained by multiplication or division of the base units of a system without the introduction of numerical factors
- derived-form — something that has been derived.
- derogatively — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- descriptives — Plural form of descriptive.
- deservedness — justly or rightly earned; merited: a deserved increase in salary.