12-letter words containing a, g, v, e
- svo language — a type of language that has basic subject-verb-object word order, as English, Chinese, or Spanish.
- tergiversate — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
- to advantage — any state, circumstance, opportunity, or means specially favorable to success, interest, or any desired end: the advantage of a good education.
- travel agent — a person who owns, operates, or works for a travel agency.
- travel light — If you travel light, you travel without taking much luggage.
- unaggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
- undervaluing — to value below the real worth; put too low a value on.
- unforgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- ungalvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- ungovernable — impossible to govern, rule, or restrain; uncontrollable.
- unprevailing — lacking force, not effective
- unvariegated — varied; diversified; diverse.
- unvoyageable — not able to be sailed or otherwise journeyed over; untraversable; innavigable
- unwaveringly — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- vacuum gauge — a device for measuring pressures below atmospheric pressure in the receiver of an air pump, in steam condensers, and the like.
- vaginicoline — living in a sheath
- valley forge — a village in SE Pennsylvania: winter quarters of Washington's army 1777–78.
- valve spring — a helical spring used to hold closed a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine
- valve timing — Valve timing is the exact timing of the opening and closing of the valves in a piston engine.
- vanga shrike — any of several birds of the family Vangidae, endemic to Madagascar, some of which resemble shrikes, with great diversity in size, color, and bill shape.
- varying hare — snowshoe hare.
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- vegetal pole — the relatively inactive part of an ovum opposite the animal pole, containing much yolk and little cytoplasm.
- vegetational — all the plants or plant life of a place, taken as a whole: the vegetation of the Nile valley.
- venn diagram — a diagram that uses circles to represent sets and their relationships.
- vereshchagin — Vasili Vasilievich [vuh-syee-lyee vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /vʌˈsyi lyi vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1842–1904, Russian painter.
- vernal grass — any of various Eurasian grasses of the genus Anthoxanthum, such as A. odoratum (sweet vernal grass), having the fragrant scent of coumarin
- veto-message — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
- video gaming — the playing of video or computer games.
- videographer — a person who makes films with a video camera.
- vigentennial — a 20th anniversary.
- village hall — function venue in small community
- vintage wine — a wine, usually of superior quality, made from selected grapes of a certain type, region, and year, then dated and usually stored for aging.
- vintage year — the year of production of a vintage wine.
- virgin metal — primary metal.
- visual angle — the angle subtended by an object at the lens of the eye
- visual range — Meteorology. visibility (def 3).
- vitilitigate — to contend or backbite
- volcanogenic — created by a volcano; of volcanic origin.
- voting paper — a ballot.
- vox angelica — an organ stop with a soft tone, often similar to the voix céleste
- vso language — a type of language that has basic verb-subject-object word order, as Welsh, classical Arabic, or Tagalog.
- wallcovering — a flexible sheet of sized paper, fabric, plastic, etc., usually laminated and printed with a repeat pattern, for pasting on a wall as decoration and protection.
- waveringness — The quality or state of wavering.
- weaving mill — a mill where cloth is woven
- wine vinegar — condiment made of fermented wine
- wood vinegar — pyroligneous acid.
- zero gravity — the condition in which the apparent effect of gravity is zero, as in the case of a body in free fall or in orbit.