12-letter words containing a, n, d, r, e, v
- indian giver — a person who gives a gift and then takes it back.
- jordan curve — simple closed curve.
- jordan river — Barbara Charline, 1936–96, U.S. politician.
- 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.
- lavender bag — a small fabric bag filled with dried lavender flowers and placed amongst clothes or linen to scent them
- liverpudlian — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
- madeira vine — a herbaceous tropical vine, Anredera cordifolia, having shiny leaves and small, fragrant, white flowers.
- maidservants — Plural form of maidservant.
- median nerve — a nerve that carries impulses between a part of the body and the central nervous system
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- non-drivable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- nuevo laredo — a city in NE Mexico, on the Rio Grande opposite Laredo, Texas.
- overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overanalyzed — Simple past tense and past participle of overanalyze.
- overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
- overdiagnose — (medicine) To diagnose something more often than it actually occurs.
- overdominant — excessively dominant
- overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.
- overmannered — excessively mannered
- 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
- pearl diving — the act of diving for the precious gems pearls
- peradventure — chance, doubt, or uncertainty.
- 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.
- raven-haired — with glossy deep black hair
- red valerian — a bushy valerian, Centranthus ruber, of Europe and southwestern Asia, having many fragrant red, crimson, or white flowers.
- revalidation — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- sand verbena — any of several low, mostly trailing plants of the genus Abronia, of the western U.S., having showy, verbenalike flowers.
- sea lavender — an Old World, maritime plant, Limonium vulgare, of the leadwort family, having one-sided spikes of small, lavender-colored flowers.
- sendai virus — a paramyxovirus that tends to cause cell fusion: in inactive form, used in biological research to produce cells with multiple nuclei of different genetic constitutions.
- shevardnadze — Eduard A [ed-werd;; Russian ed-wahrt] /ˈɛd wərd;; Russian ɛdˈwɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1928–2014, Soviet foreign minister 1985–91; president of his native Georgian Republic 1995–2003.
- steam-driven — powered by steam
- 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.
- under canvas — If you are living and sleeping under canvas, you are living and sleeping in a tent.
- underachieve — to perform, especially academically, below the potential indicated by tests of one's mental ability or aptitude.
- underservant — a servant of inferior or subordinate rank.
- undervaluing — to value below the real worth; put too low a value on.
- unvariegated — varied; diversified; diverse.
- unverbalized — not verbalized or put into words
- val-de-marne — a department in N France. 94 sq. mi. (243 sq. km). Capital: Créteil.
- 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)
- van der rohe — Ludwig Mies [luhd-wig meez,, mees] /ˈlʌd wɪg miz,, mis/ (Show IPA), Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig.
- van devanter — Willis, 1859–1941, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1910–37.