12-letter words containing a, b, o, v, e
- noncombative — Not combative.
- nonobservant — Not observant; not religious; not participating in the observance of religion.
- nonremovable — that may be removed.
- nonrevocable — Not revocable.
- nonvegetable — Not of or pertaining to vegetables.
- note verbale — a diplomatic communication prepared in the third person and unsigned: less formal than a note but more formal than an aide-mémoire.
- object value — (jargon) In industrial design, a measure of consumers' immediate desire for an object, even before they know or understand what it does. "Gassee may be nuts, but at least the BeBox has great object value."
- obliterative — Tending or serving to obliterate.
- observations — Plural form of observation.
- olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.
- overabstract — thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea.
- overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
- overbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbalance.
- overbearance — (rare, or, obsolete) Overbearing behaviour; arrogance; imperiousness.
- overtime ban — a refusal by employees to work overtime
- provableness — the quality of being provable
- proverbially — of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb: proverbial brevity.
- reverberator — to reecho or resound: Her singing reverberated through the house.
- review board — panel appointed to reconsider a matter
- scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder
- scrive board — a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.
- slave labour — Slave labour refers to slaves or to work done by slaves.
- sleeve board — a small-scale ironing board for pressing sleeves, especially a narrow board that fits inside a coat sleeve.
- takeover bid — offer to buy a company
- un-revocable — that may be revoked.
- unapprovable — capable of being approved.
- unfavourable — Unfavourable conditions or circumstances cause problems for you and reduce your chances of success.
- unforgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- ungovernable — impossible to govern, rule, or restrain; uncontrollable.
- unobservable — incapable of observation; imperceptible
- unobservance — a failure to comply or observe (a law, custom, etc)
- unreprovable — not able to be reproved, reproached, or criticized
- unresolvable — not able to be resolved or brought to a satisfactory resolution
- unvoyageable — not able to be sailed or otherwise journeyed over; untraversable; innavigable
- valve bounce — A valve bounce is the bouncing of a poppet valve on its seat when it is closing.
- vedette boat — a small patrol vessel
- verbal irony — irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning.
- verbenaceous — belonging to the plant family Verbenaceae.
- vertebration — vertebrate formation.
- vocabularied — having a vocabulary as specified
- vuelta abajo — a region in W Cuba.