12-letter words containing y, v
- clairvoyancy — the faculty of clairvoyance
- clairvoyants — Plural form of clairvoyant.
- cockeysville — a town in N Maryland.
- cogitatively — In a cogitative manner.
- collectively — formed by collection.
- collectivity — the quality or state of being collective
- compulsively — compelling; compulsory.
- compulsivity — compulsiveness
- concessively — in a concessive manner
- conclusively — serving to settle or decide a question; decisive; convincing: conclusive evidence.
- conductively — In a conductive manner.
- conductivity — the property of transmitting heat, electricity, or sound
- connectively — serving or tending to connect: connective remarks between chapters.
- connectivity — Connectivity is the ability of a computing device to connect to other computers or to the Internet.
- 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.
- convectively — In a convective manner.
- conveniently — suitable or agreeable to the needs or purpose; well-suited with respect to facility or ease in use; favorable, easy, or comfortable for use.
- convergently — characterized by convergence; tending to come together; merging.
- conveyancing — Conveyancing is the process of transferring the legal ownership of property.
- conveyorized — to equip (a factory or the like) with conveyor belts.
- convincingly — persuading or assuring by argument or evidence: They gave a convincing demonstration of the car's safety features.
- conviviality — friendly; agreeable: a convivial atmosphere.
- convolutedly — twisted; coiled.
- convulsively — of the nature of or characterized by convulsions or spasms.
- correctively — In a corrective manner; so as to correct something.
- corruptively — In a corruptive way.
- courtly love — a tradition represented in Western European literature between the 12th and the 14th centuries, idealizing love between a knight and a revered (usually married) lady
- 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.
- crazy paving — Crazy paving is pieces of stone of different shapes fitted together to make a path or flat area.
- cross volley — (in tennis) a volley across the court
- cryopreserve — to preserve (living tissue) at a very low temperature
- cumulatively — increasing or growing by accumulation or successive additions: the cumulative effect of one rejection after another.
- curry favour — to ingratiate oneself, esp with superiors
- cutaway dive — a back dive in which the diver rotates the body to enter the water headfirst facing the springboard.
- 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
- daredeviltry — reckless daring; venturesome boldness.
- death valley — a desert valley in E California and W Nevada: the lowest, hottest, and driest area of the US. Lowest point: 86 m (282 ft) below sea level. Area: about 3885 sq km (1500 sq miles)
- decoratively — In a decorative manner.
- definitively — most reliable or complete, as of a text, author, criticism, study, or the like: the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson.
- degressively — in a degressive fashion
- 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
- denotatively — having power to denote.
- depressively — In a depressive manner.
- derivability — The condition of being derivable.
- derivatively — derived.
- 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.
- derogatively — lessening; belittling; derogatory.