12-letter words containing a, d, v, e
- favouredness — the quality of or extent to which something is favoured
- federatively — from a federative point of view
- ferdinand vi — 1713–59, king of Spain 1746–59 (son of Philip V).
- five-and-ten — Also called five-and-ten-cent store [fahyv-uh n-ten-sent] /ˈfaɪv ənˈtɛnˌsɛnt/ (Show IPA), five-and-dime [fahyv-uh n-dahym] /ˈfaɪv ənˈdaɪm/ (Show IPA), dime store, ten-cent store. a store offering a wide assortment of inexpensive items, formerly costing five or ten cents, for personal and household use.
- food vacuole — a membrane-enclosed cell vacuole with a digestive function, containing material taken up in by the process of phagocytosis.
- forward dive — a dive from a position facing the water in which the diver jumps up from the springboard, rotating the body forward, and enters the water either headfirst or feetfirst.
- garden grove — a city in SW California.
- geneva bands — a pair of white lawn or linen strips hanging from the front of the neck or collar of some ecclesiastical and academic robes
- go overboard — over the side of a ship or boat, especially into or in the water: to fall overboard.
- good heavens — You say 'Good heavens!' or 'Heavens!' to express surprise or to emphasize that you agree or disagree with someone.
- grand vizier — the chief officer of state of various Muslim countries, as in the former Ottoman Empire.
- gravediggers — Plural form of gravedigger.
- gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
- 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-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
- half-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- hand-deliver — to deliver in person or by messenger.
- hard-favored — South Midland U.S. (of a person) hard-featured.
- have a (good — to feel (strongly) inclined to
- have in mind — to remember
- have it good — to be in comfortable circumstances
- have it made — simple past tense and past participle of make1 .
- have need to — to be compelled or required to; must
- heavy-footed — clumsy or ponderous, as in movement or expressiveness: music that is heavy-footed and uninspired.
- heavy-handed — oppressive; harsh: a heavy-handed master.
- heavyhearted — Sad.
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- ill-favoured — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- inadvertence — the quality or condition of being inadvertent; heedlessness.
- inadvertency — inadvertence.
- indian giver — a person who gives a gift and then takes it back.
- indicatively — showing, signifying, or pointing out; expressive or suggestive (usually followed by of): behavior indicative of mental disorder.
- individuated — Simple past tense and past participle of individuate.
- individuates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of individuate.
- inequivalved — having the valves of the shell of a mollusk unequal in size
- investigated — Simple past tense and past participle of investigate.
- jordan curve — simple closed curve.
- jordan river — Barbara Charline, 1936–96, U.S. politician.
- kavir desert — Dasht-e-Kavir.
- la verendrye — Pierre Gaultier de Varenne [French pyer goh-tyey duh va-ren] /French pyɛr goʊˈtyeɪ də vaˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), Sieur de, 1685–1749, Canadian explorer of North America.
- landgraviate — the office, jurisdiction, or territory of a landgrave.
- landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
- lap dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
- lavender bag — a small fabric bag filled with dried lavender flowers and placed amongst clothes or linen to scent them
- leave behind — fail to bring
- level-headed — having common sense and sound judgment; sensible.
- liverpudlian — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.