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12-letter words containing a, s, v, o

  • noble savage — primitive indigenous person
  • non-activist — an especially active, vigorous advocate of a cause, especially a political cause.
  • non-invasive — not invading adjacent healthy cells, blood vessels, or tissues; localized: a noninvasive tumor.
  • non-vascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
  • nonassertive — Not assertive.
  • noncausative — Not causative.
  • nonobservant — Not observant; not religious; not participating in the observance of religion.
  • nonuniversal — Not universal.
  • nonvanishing — (mathematics) (of a quantity) that is nonzero at all points in a space.
  • nonversation — A meaningless conversation.
  • nonvexatious — Not vexatious.
  • nova scotian — a peninsula and province in SE Canada: once a part of the French province of Acadia. 21,068 sq. mi. (54,565 sq. km). Capital: Halifax.
  • novelisation — Alternative spelling of novelization.
  • observations — Plural form of observation.
  • old slavonic — Old Church Slavonic.
  • oncornavirus — any of various RNA viruses that cause tumors in humans and other animals.
  • outmaneuvers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outmaneuver.
  • ovariotomies — Plural form of ovariotomy.
  • ovariotomist — a surgeon who performs ovariotomies
  • over against — in opposition to; contrary to; adverse or hostile to: twenty votes against ten; against reason.
  • over-anxious — excessively anxious.
  • over-jealous — feeling resentment against someone because of that person's rivalry, success, or advantages (often followed by of): He was jealous of his rich brother.
  • overabstract — thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea.
  • overanalysis — the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements (opposed to synthesis).
  • overbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbalance.
  • overcautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
  • overclassify — to classify to excess
  • overdiagnose — (medicine) To diagnose something more often than it actually occurs.
  • overemphasis — excessive or undue emphasis.
  • overestimate — to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like: Don't overestimate the car's trade-in value.
  • overissuance — the act of issuing in excessive amounts
  • overpersuade — to persuade (a person) against his or her inclination or intention: By threats and taunts they had overpersuaded him to steal the car.
  • overpurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
  • overrashness — the act of being overrash
  • oversanguine — too optimistic
  • oversaturate — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
  • overseas cap — a soft, brimless military cap
  • oversedation — the calming of mental excitement or abatement of physiological function, especially by the administration of a drug.
  • overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
  • overstrained — exerted, taxed, or used to an excessive extent
  • passive noun — a noun whose referent is the recipient of an action, as trainee, multiplicand.
  • paving stone — slab used to lay a path
  • pax vobiscum — peace be with you
  • perseverator — a person who perseverates
  • pervicacious — extremely willful; obstinate; stubborn.
  • petrozavodsk — a city in NW Russia, capital of the Karelian Autonomous Republic, on Lake Onega: developed around ironworks established by Peter the Great in 1703; university (1940). Pop: 265 000 (2005 est)
  • picornavirus — any of a group of small, RNA-containing viruses of the family Picornaviridae, infectious to humans and other animals, and including the poliovirus and the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold.
  • polyomavirus — any of a genus (Polyomavirus) of papovaviruses that naturally infect wild and laboratory mice, and that cause tumors when injected into newborn mice
  • pons varolii — pons (def 1).
  • positive law — customary law or law enacted by governmental authority (as distinguished from natural law).
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