12-letter words containing c, o, v
- elevator car — a compartment which carries people from floor to floor in a building via a vertical shaft
- endocervical — Within a cervix.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- equivocality — The quality of being equivocal.
- equivocating — Present participle of equivocate.
- equivocation — The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication.
- equivocatory — Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation.
- evisceration — A disemboweling; the removal of viscera.
- 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 " />.
- food service — the preparation, delivery, serving, etc., of ready-to-eat foods: The cafeteria employs over 20 people in food service.
- food vacuole — a membrane-enclosed cell vacuole with a digestive function, containing material taken up in by the process of phagocytosis.
- fructivorous — Fruit-eating.
- galvanoscope — an instrument for detecting the existence of an electric current and determining its direction.
- geneva cross — a red Greek cross on a white background, displayed to distinguish ambulances, hospitals, and persons belonging to the Red Cross Society.
- gift voucher — gift certificate.
- gingivectomy — surgical removal of gum tissue.
- give offence — to cause annoyance or displeasure to someone
- give suck to — to give (a baby or young animal) milk from the breast or udder
- gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
- graving dock — an excavated shore dry dock for the repair and maintenance of ships.
- ground cover — the herbaceous plants and low shrubs in a forest, considered as a whole.
- growth curve — a curve on a graph in which a variable is plotted against time to illustrate the growth of the variable
- half-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
- haricot vert — green bean.
- have company — If you have company, you have a visitor or friend with you.
- heroic verse — a form of verse adapted to the treatment of heroic or exalted themes: in classical poetry, dactylic hexameter; in English and German, iambic pentameter; and in French, the Alexandrine. An example of heroic verse is Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring / Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing!
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- improvidence — not provident; lacking foresight; incautious; unwary.
- inactivation — The process of rendering something inactive.
- 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
- incogitative — Not cogitative; lacking the power of thought.
- inconclusive — not conclusive; not resolving fully all doubts or questions: inconclusive evidence.
- inconvenient — not easily accessible or at hand: The phone is in an inconvenient place.
- inconversant — Not conversant or acquainted (with something); unfamiliar.
- incorruptive — incorruptible; not tending to be corrupted
- innocent vii — (Cosimo de' Migliorati) 1336–1406, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1404–06.
- inobservance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- insectivores — Plural form of insectivore.
- interconvert — to subject to interconversion; interchange.
- intervocalic — (usually of a consonant) immediately following a vowel and preceding a vowel, as the v in cover.
- intoxicative — of or relating to intoxicants or intoxication.
- introductive — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
- invocational — Of or relating to an act of invocation.
- jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
- japan clover — a drought-resistant bush clover, Lespedeza striata, of the legume family, introduced to the southern Atlantic states from Asia, having numerous tiny trifoliate leaves valued for pasturage and hay.
- jordan curve — simple closed curve.