12-letter words containing a, d, v, e, r, t
- extravasated — Simple past tense and past participle of extravasate.
- faits divers — brief news stories, as those typically found in some French newspapers, that are sensational, lurid, etc.
- federatively — from a federative point of view
- gravity feed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- great divide — the continental divide of North America; the Rocky Mountains.
- gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- half-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- heavyhearted — Sad.
- inadvertence — the quality or condition of being inadvertent; heedlessness.
- inadvertency — inadvertence.
- kavir desert — Dasht-e-Kavir.
- landgraviate — the office, jurisdiction, or territory of a landgrave.
- maidservants — Plural form of maidservant.
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- old favorite — If you refer to something as an old favorite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
- overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overdecorate — To decorate or embellish to an excessive degree.
- overdelicate — extremely or excessively delicate: an overdelicate digestive system.
- overdominant — excessively dominant
- overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.
- overdramatic — of or relating to the drama.
- overeducated — Having been educated to a higher academic level than is necessary.
- overfatigued — excessively fatigued
- overmedicate — to treat with medicine or medicaments.
- oversedation — the calming of mental excitement or abatement of physiological function, especially by the administration of a drug.
- overstrained — exerted, taxed, or used to an excessive extent
- peradventure — chance, doubt, or uncertainty.
- petrozavodsk — a city in NW Russia, capital of the Karelian Autonomous Republic, on Lake Onega: developed around ironworks established by Peter the Great in 1703; university (1940). Pop: 265 000 (2005 est)
- prerogatived — possessing a prerogative
- privatdocent — (in German and certain other universities) a private teacher or lecturer recognized by the university but receiving no compensation from it, being remunerated by fees.
- privatdozent — (in German and certain other universities) a private teacher or lecturer recognized by the university but receiving no compensation from it, being remunerated by fees.
- providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- quadrivalent — having a valence of four; tetravalent.
- re-educative — of or relating to re-education
- revalidation — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- revictualled — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- self-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- slave trader — sb who traffics in people
- stage-driver — the driver of a stagecoach.
- steam-driven — powered by steam
- takeover bid — offer to buy a company
- the bereaved — the survivors of a person who has died recently
- three-valued — of or relating to propositions having a value other than truth or falsity.
- traverse rod — a horizontal rod upon which drapes slide to open or close when pulled by cords.
- turacoverdin — a green pigment found in certain feathers of the touraco
- unadvertised — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
- underservant — a servant of inferior or subordinate rank.
- unvariegated — varied; diversified; diverse.
- valetudinary — valetudinarian.
- van der post — Sir Laurens (Jan). 1906–96, South African writer and traveller. His works include the travel books Venture to the Interior (1952), The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), and Testament to the Bushmen (1984) and the novels The Hunter and the Whale (1967) and The Admiral's Baby (1996)