12-letter words containing v, i, s, e, c, t
- discretively — in a discretive manner
- disincentive — something that discourages or deters; deterrent: High interest rates and government regulations are disincentives to investment.
- disjunctives — Plural form of disjunctive.
- dissociative — to sever the association of (oneself); separate: He tried to dissociate himself from the bigotry in his past.
- eigenvectors — Plural form of eigenvector.
- electiveness — Quality of being elective.
- encaptivates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encaptivate.
- evangelistic — Seeking to convert others to the Christian faith; missionary.
- eviscerating — Present participle of eviscerate.
- evisceration — A disemboweling; the removal of viscera.
- give suck to — to give (a baby or young animal) milk from the breast or udder
- harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
- incentivised — Simple past tense and past participle of incentivise.
- incentivises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incentivise.
- incentivizes — to give incentives to: The government should incentivize the private sector to create jobs.
- inconversant — Not conversant or acquainted (with something); unfamiliar.
- incrassative — A substance which has the power to thicken; formerly, a medicine supposed to thicken the humours.
- ingravescent — (esp of a disease) becoming more severe
- insectivores — Plural form of insectivore.
- insusceptive — insusceptible
- 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
- negativistic — a negative or pessimistic attitude.
- noncausative — Not causative.
- nonselective — having the function or power of selecting; making a selection.
- overcautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
- overdiscount — to discount excessively
- 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.
- psychoactive — of or relating to a substance having a profound or significant effect on mental processes: a psychoactive drug.
- 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.
- silviculture — the cultivation of forest trees; forestry.
- sivapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene primates of Asia that resemble the modern orangutan.
- 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.