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12-letter words containing v, o, i, c, e, l

  • divorce mill — a divorce court, especially such a court in a state or country that does not impose difficult requirements, as a long period of residence or humiliating grounds, on those who wish to dissolve their marriage.
  • drove chisel — a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
  • edulcorative — edulcorant
  • endocervical — Within a cervix.
  • equivocality — The quality of being equivocal.
  • excavational — Relating to excavation.
  • exclusive of — not including or allowing for; ignoring
  • exclusive or — (logic)   (XOR, EOR) /X or, E or/ A two-input function whose result is true if one input is true and the other is false. The truth table is A | B | A xor B --+---+-------- F | F | F F | T | T T | F | T T | T | F The output is thus true if the inputs are not equal. If one input is false, the other is passed unchanged whereas if one input is true, the other is inverted. In Boolean algebra, exclusive or is often written as a plus in a circle: "⊕". The circle may be omitted suggesting addition modulo two. In digital logic, an exclusive or logic gate is drawn like a normal inclusive or gate but with a curved line across both inputs: {exclusive or gate " />.
  • gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
  • inchoatively — in an inchoative or rudimentary fashion; initially
  • inclusive of — including; taking into account
  • inclusive or — the connective that gives the value true to a disjunction if either or both of the disjuncts are true
  • inconclusive — not conclusive; not resolving fully all doubts or questions: inconclusive evidence.
  • intervocalic — (usually of a consonant) immediately following a vowel and preceding a vowel, as the v in cover.
  • jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
  • lever-action — (of a rifle) having a lever action.
  • lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
  • lovesickness — Quality or property of being lovesick.
  • microvessels — Plural form of microvessel.
  • microwavable — Of food, that is suitable for cooking in a microwave oven.
  • middle voice — the voice or form used when the subject of a verb performs an action on itself (often the reflexive form)
  • multi-voiced — having a voice of a specified kind (usually used in combination): shrill-voiced.
  • nomenclative — relating to the act of naming
  • non-elective — pertaining to the principle of electing to an office, position, etc.
  • non-violence — absence or lack of violence; state or condition of avoiding violence.
  • noncivilized — Not civilized.
  • noncollusive — involving collusion; fraudulently contrived by agreement: a collusive agreement to increase prices.
  • nonexclusive — not admitting of something else; incompatible: mutually exclusive plans of action.
  • nonocclusive — occluding or tending to occlude.
  • nonselective — having the function or power of selecting; making a selection.
  • nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
  • novell, inc. — (company, networking)   A software development company specialising in networking and workgroup applications. The company has diversified in recent years, with the acquisition of several mainstream applications, including Wordperfect and Quattro Pro. Other products include UnixWare, AppWare, Personal NetWare, Groupwise and Novell Dos 7. (21 Sept 1995)
  • oblivescence — the process of forgetting.
  • obliviscence — the condition or fact of failing to remember or having failed to remember or of being absent-minded
  • olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.
  • overclassify — to classify to excess
  • overclocking — Computers. to modify (a hardware component, as a processor, graphics card, or memory) so as to increase the speed of that component beyond the specifications of the manufacturer: You can overclock your video card to improve its performance.
  • overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
  • overcritical — excessively critical; hypercritical.
  • overdelicate — extremely or excessively delicate: an overdelicate digestive system.
  • overexplicit — excessively explicit
  • overinclined — extremely or excessively inclined (to)
  • overreliance — confident or trustful dependence.
  • peace-loving — If you describe someone as peace-loving, you mean that they try to avoid quarrelling or fighting with other people.
  • pelvic floor — muscles beneath the pelvis
  • proclivities — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
  • productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • protectively — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
  • ravioli code — (jargon, humour)   Object-oriented code consisting of a number of small and loosely-coupled software components. Presumably, the term is a compliment, contrasting the code with spaghetti code.
  • uncoercively — in an uncoercive manner
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