12-letter words containing c, o, v
- clavicembalo — a harpsichord.
- close-shaven — (of hair) cut very short
- clovenfooted — having split hoofs, once assumed to represent the halves of a single undivided hoof, as in cattle.
- cloverleaves — Plural form of cloverleaf.
- clovis point — flint projectile dating from the 10th millennium bc
- co-operative — A co-operative is a business or organization run by the people who work for it, or owned by the people who use it. These people share its benefits and profits.
- coacervation — a reversible, emulsoid stage existing between the sol and gel formations, in which the addition of a third substance causes the separation of the sol into two immiscible liquid phases: an essential stage in the formation of proteins, antibodies, etc.
- coach driver — a person who drives a coach
- coactivation — Activation of two or more things together.
- cockeysville — a town in N Maryland.
- codiscoverer — a fellow discoverer
- coerciveness — serving or tending to coerce.
- cogitatively — In a cogitative manner.
- cognoscitive — having the ability to know or discover: cognoscitive powers.
- cohesiveness — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
- collectively — formed by collection.
- collectivise — Alternative spelling of collectivize.
- collectivism — Collectivism is the political belief that a country's industries and services should be owned and controlled by the state or by all the people in a country. Socialism and communism are both forms of collectivism.
- collectivist — Collectivist means relating to collectivism.
- collectivity — the quality or state of being collective
- collectivize — If farms or factories are collectivized, they are brought under state ownership and control, usually by combining a number of small farms or factories into one large one.
- collinsville — a city in SW Illinois.
- colliquative — capable of liquefaction or dissolution
- commentative — of or relating to comment or commentary.
- comparatives — Plural form of comparative.
- compellative — an appellation
- compensative — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
- complaintive — Tending to complain, characterized by complaining.
- complex wave — a waveform consisting of a fundamental frequency with superimposed harmonics
- complicative — having a tendency to complicate
- compulsative — compulsory
- compulsively — compelling; compulsory.
- compulsivity — compulsiveness
- concanavalin — either of two globulins, concanavalin B or (more commonly) concanavalin A, that occur in the jack bean Canavalia ensiformis. Concanavalin A causes agglutination of the blood of mammals
- concessively — in a concessive manner
- conciliative — tending to conciliate: a conciliatory manner; conciliatory comments.
- 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
- confirmative — serving to confirm; corroborative.
- conformative — (nonstandard) Tending to conform; conforming.
- conjunctivae — the mucous membrane that lines the exposed portion of the eyeball and inner surface of the eyelids.
- conjunctival — the mucous membrane that lines the exposed portion of the eyeball and inner surface of the eyelids.
- conjunctivas — Plural form of conjunctiva.
- 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.
- connersville — a city in E Indiana.
- conservating — Present participle of conservate.
- conservation — Conservation is saving and protecting the environment.
- conservatism — Conservatism is a political philosophy which believes that if changes need to be made to society, they should be made gradually. You can also refer to the political beliefs of a conservative party in a particular country as Conservatism.