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12-letter words containing v, e, r

  • appreciative — An appreciative reaction or comment shows the enjoyment that you are getting from something.
  • apprehensive — Someone who is apprehensive is afraid that something bad may happen.
  • archive file — a single computer file that contains one or more files that have been compressed
  • archive site — (networking)   (Or "FTP site", "FTP archive") An Internet host where program source, documents, e-mail or news messages are stored for public access via anonymous FTP, Gopher, web or other document distribution system. There may be several archive sites (mirrors) for, e.g., a Usenet newsgroup though one may be recognised as the main one. FTP servers were common on the Internet for about ten years but have been largely replaced by web servers since the invention of the World-Wide Web and its HTTP protocol. Some well-known archive sites included Imperial College, UK, UUNET, USA, GNU archive site. The archie service attempted to index the contents of FTP archives, foreshadowing the indexing of the web by Google and others.
  • arenaviruses — Plural form of arenavirus.
  • arfvedsonite — a type of hornblende with the composition Na3(Fe,Mg)4FeSi8O22(OH)2
  • arrival date — Your arrival date is the date that you are expected to come to a hotel or other location.
  • arrival time — the time when someone or something arrives, arrived, or will arrive
  • arthur evans — Sir Arthur John, 1851–1941, English archaeologist.
  • articulative — relating to articulation
  • assay groove — (in silverwork) a furrow left in a piece by the digging out of metal for assay.
  • asseverating — Present participle of asseverate.
  • asseveration — the act of asseverating.
  • asseverative — characterized by or relating to solemn declaration or affirmation
  • at a venture — at random; by chance
  • at intervals — If something happens at intervals, it happens several times with gaps or pauses in between.
  • atharva-veda — the fourth and latest Veda, largely consisting of priestly spells and incantations
  • attractively — In an attractive manner; with the power of attracting or drawing to.
  • autoreactive — (immunology, medicine) Acting against the organism by which it was produced.
  • average life — the average time that an unstable particle or nucleus survives before it decays.
  • averruncator — a long pair of shears used for pruning the higher branches of trees
  • aversiveness — the condition of being characterized by aversion
  • baker's oven — an oven used esp for baking bread
  • barcoo river — a river in E central Australia, in SW Queensland: joins with the Thomson River to form Cooper Creek
  • 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 falls — a city in W Pennsylvania.
  • beaver fever — an infectious disease caused by drinking water that has been contaminated by wildlife
  • beaver state — Oregon (used as a nickname).
  • beetle drive — a social occasion at which a progressive series of games of beetle is played
  • behaviorally — manner of behaving or acting.
  • behaviourism — Behaviourism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
  • bendix drive — A Bendix drive is a drive consisting of a pinion wheel (= a gear with a small number of teeth) carried on a shaft. The shaft rotates, causing the pinion to move.
  • beta version — beta testing
  • bevel square — a woodworker's square with an adjustable arm that can be set to mark out an angle or to check the slope of a surface
  • bezier curve — (graphics)   A type of curve defined by mathematical formulae, used in computer graphics. A curve with coordinates P(u), where u varies from 0 at one end of the curve to 1 at the other, is defined by a set of n+1 "control points" (X(i), Y(i), Z(i)) for i = 0 to n. P(u) = Sum i=0..n [(X(i), Y(i), Z(i)) * B(i, n, u)] B(i, n, u) = C(n, i) * u^i * (1-u)^(n-i) C(n, i) = n!/i!/(n-i)! A Bezier curve (or surface) is defined by its control points, which makes it invariant under any affine mapping (translation, rotation, parallel projection), and thus even under a change in the axis system. You need only to transform the control points and then compute the new curve. The control polygon defined by the points is itself affine invariant. Bezier curves also have the variation-diminishing property. This makes them easier to split compared to other types of curve such as Hermite or B-spline. Other important properties are multiple values, global and local control, versatility, and order of continuity.
  • bib overalls — overall (def 3a).
  • biodiversity — Biodiversity is the existence of a wide variety of plant and animal species living in their natural environment.
  • blue vitriol — the fully hydrated blue crystalline form of copper sulphate
  • bond servant — a person who serves in bondage; slave.
  • boucherville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
  • boulevardier — (originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places
  • bournonville — Auguste [French oh-gyst] /French oʊˈgüst/ (Show IPA), 1805–79, Danish ballet dancer and choreographer.
  • bovver boots — heavy boots worn by some teenage youths in Britain, used in gang fights
  • boxgrove man — a type of primitive man, probably Homo heidelbergensis, and probably dating from the Middle Palaeolithic period some 500 000 years ago; remains were found at Boxgrove in West Sussex in 1993 and 1995
  • brevicaudate — having a short tail.
  • brevipennate — (of flightless birds) short-winged
  • brick veneer — (in Australia) a timber-framed house with a brick exterior
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