12-letter words containing a, r, g, o, v
- microgravity — a condition, especially in space orbit, where the force of gravity is so weak that weightlessness results.
- movie rating — a classification of a film as according to the age of viewers thought suitable to see it, and which can differ according to the level in the film of violent content, sexual content, etc
- navel orange — a seedless variety of orange having at the apex a navellike formation containing a small secondary fruit.
- nemorivagant — Lb rare wandering in the woods.
- nueva gerona — a town on the Isle of Pines, S of Cuba.
- orange grove — small orchard of orange trees
- orange-river — a member of a European princely family ruling in the United Kingdom from 1688 to 1694 and in the Netherlands since 1815.
- over against — in opposition to; contrary to; adverse or hostile to: twenty votes against ten; against reason.
- over-fraught — Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
- overcharging — Present participle of overcharge.
- overcramming — excessive cramming
- overdiagnose — (medicine) To diagnose something more often than it actually occurs.
- overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.
- overfatigued — excessively fatigued
- overorganize — to stress formal structure, status, rules, and details excessively.
- overplanning — the act or instance of planning excessively
- overreaching — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
- overregulate — to apply rules and regulations excessively to (something)
- oversanguine — too optimistic
- overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- photoengrave — to make a photoengraving of.
- photogravure — any of various processes, based on photography, by which an intaglio engraving is formed on a metal plate, from which ink reproductions are made.
- prerogatived — possessing a prerogative
- reinvigorate — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- revegetation — to cause vegetation to grow again on: to revegetate eroded lands.
- ring-a-levio — a children's game in which members of one group try to find and capture hiding members of another group: a captured player is kept in a circle drawn on the ground and is set free when tagged by a teammate
- rock carving — the practice of carving on rock
- sanguivorous — feeding on blood, as a bat or insect.
- seronegative — showing no significant level of serum antibodies, or other immunologic marker in the serum, that would indicate previous exposure to the infectious agent being tested.
- svga monitor — (hardware, graphics) A monitor capable of displaying the output of an SVGA card.
- toga virilis — the white toga assumed by boys in ancient Rome at the end of their 14th year.
- unforgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- unforgivably — in an unforgivable manner
- ungovernable — impossible to govern, rule, or restrain; uncontrollable.
- vainglorious — filled with or given to vainglory: a vainglorious actor.
- valley forge — a village in SE Pennsylvania: winter quarters of Washington's army 1777–78.
- vargas llosa — Mario, born 1936, Peruvian essayist and novelist.
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- videographer — a person who makes films with a video camera.
- vital organs — organs in the body that are essential to life
- voting paper — a ballot.
- 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.
- wood carving — making sculptures from wood
- wood vinegar — pyroligneous acid.
- woodcarvings — Plural form of woodcarving.
- 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.