12-letter words containing a, l, t, v
- habilitative — to clothe or dress.
- half-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- hever castle — a Tudor mansion near Edenbridge in Kent: home of Anne Boleyn before her marriage; Italian garden added in the 20th century by the Astor family
- high voltage — high-power electricity
- high-voltage — operating on or powered by high voltage: a high-voltage generator.
- il trovatore — an opera (1853) by Giuseppe Verdi.
- illuminative — giving light; illuminating.
- illustrative — serving to illustrate; explanatory: illustrative examples.
- immovability — incapable of being moved; fixed; stationary.
- imperatively — absolutely necessary or required; unavoidable: It is imperative that we leave.
- imputatively — In an imputative fashion or manner.
- inchoatively — in an inchoative or rudimentary fashion; initially
- indicatively — showing, signifying, or pointing out; expressive or suggestive (usually followed by of): behavior indicative of mental disorder.
- inequivalent — Not equivalent.
- infiltrative — to filter into or through; permeate.
- initiatively — an introductory act or step; leading action: to take the initiative in making friends.
- innovational — something new or different introduced: numerous innovations in the high-school curriculum.
- innovatively — tending to innovate, or introduce something new or different; characterized by innovation.
- intake valve — a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine that opens at the proper moment in the cycle to allow the fuel-air mixture to be drawn into the cylinder.
- interleaving — sector interleave
- interpluvial — designating a drier period occurring between two periods of persistently heavy rainfall
- intervaginal — Anatomy, Zoology. pertaining to or involving the vagina.
- intervillage — occurring between two or more villages
- intervocalic — (usually of a consonant) immediately following a vowel and preceding a vowel, as the v in cover.
- intravaginal — Within the vagina.
- intravesical — Within the urinary bladder.
- intravitally — during life
- intravitreal — Within an eye.
- invalidating — Present participle of invalidate.
- invalidation — to render invalid; discredit.
- investigable — capable of being investigated.
- inveterately — settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling, or the like: an inveterate gambler.
- invigilating — Present participle of invigilate.
- invigilation — The act of watching or invigilating.
- invigilators — Plural form of invigilator.
- invitational — restricted to participants who have been invited: an invitational track meet.
- invocational — Of or relating to an act of invocation.
- involutional — of, relating to, or characteristic of involutional melancholia: involutional symptoms.
- invultuation — the use of or the act of making images of people, animals, etc, for witchcraft
- irrelatively — In an irrelative manner.
- irrelevantly — not relevant; not applicable or pertinent: His lectures often stray to interesting but irrelevant subjects.
- java servlet — (web) (By analogy with "applet") A Java program that runs as part of a network service, typically an HTTP server and responds to requests from clients. The most common use for a servlet is to extend a web server by generating web content dynamically. For example, a client may need information from a database; a servlet can be written that receives the request, gets and processes the data as needed by the client and then returns the result to the client. Servlets are more flexible than CGI scripts and, being written in Java, more portable. The spelling "servelet" is occasionally seen but JavaSoft spell it "servlet". There is no such thing as a "serverlet".
- lake vättern — a lake in S central Sweden: the second largest lake in Sweden; linked to Lake Vänern by the Göta Canal; drains into the Baltic. Area: 1912 sq km (738 sq miles)
- landgraviate — the office, jurisdiction, or territory of a landgrave.
- larval stage — Describes a period of monomaniacal concentration on coding apparently passed through by all fledgling hackers. Common symptoms include the perpetration of more than one 36-hour hacking run in a given week; neglect of all other activities including usual basics like food, sleep, and personal hygiene; and a chronic case of advanced bleary-eye. Can last from 6 months to 2 years, the apparent median being around 18 months. A few so afflicted never resume a more "normal" life, but the ordeal seems to be necessary to produce really wizardly (as opposed to merely competent) programmers. See also wannabee. A less protracted and intense version of larval stage (typically lasting about a month) may recur when one is learning a new OS or programming language.
- laxativeness — the condition or quality of being laxative
- leave-taking — a saying farewell; a parting or goodbye; departure: His leave-taking was brief.
- lever-action — (of a rifle) having a lever action.
- levi strauss — David Friedrich [dah-veet free-drikh] /ˈdɑ vit ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1808–74, German theologian, philosopher, and author.
- levi-strauss — Claude, 1908–2009, French anthropologist and educator, born in Belgium: founder of structural anthropology.