12-letter words containing a, s, v, o
- steam-shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
- stove enamel — a type of enamel made heatproof by treatment in a stove
- superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- svga monitor — (hardware, graphics) A monitor capable of displaying the output of an SVGA card.
- svo language — a type of language that has basic subject-verb-object word order, as English, Chinese, or Spanish.
- swallow dive — swan dive.
- to take vows — to enter a religious order and commit oneself to its rule of life by the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, which may be taken for a limited period as simple vows or as a perpetual and still more solemn commitment as solemn vows
- toaster oven — an electrical appliance that functions as both an oven and a toaster and is small enough to fit on a kitchen counter or table.
- toga virilis — the white toga assumed by boys in ancient Rome at the end of their 14th year.
- transportive — to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.
- transversion — a turning across, or into, something else
- traverse rod — a horizontal rod upon which drapes slide to open or close when pulled by cords.
- tschaikovsky — Peter Ilyich [il-yich] /ˈɪl yɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich.
- unchivalrous — having the qualities of chivalry, as courage, courtesy, and loyalty.
- unconversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
- unobservable — incapable of observation; imperceptible
- unobservance — a failure to comply or observe (a law, custom, etc)
- unresolvable — not able to be resolved or brought to a satisfactory resolution
- vacuum servo — a servomechanism that is operated by the lowering of pressure in the intake duct of an internal-combustion engine
- vaginicolous — living in a sheath
- vainglorious — filled with or given to vainglory: a vainglorious actor.
- 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)
- vaporescence — production or formation of vapor.
- vaporishness — the quality or state of being vaporish
- vargas llosa — Mario, born 1936, Peruvian essayist and novelist.
- variationist — a person who studies variations in the use of a language by its speakers
- varicosities — the state or condition of being varicose.
- variety show — vaudeville performance
- vasoactivity — activity that affects the diameter of blood vessels
- vasodilation — dilatation of the blood vessels, as by the action of a nerve.
- vasodilatory — of or relating to the dilation of blood vessels
- vasoligation — ligation of the vas deferens.
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- vector space — an additive group in which addition is commutative and with which is associated a field of scalars, as the field of real numbers, such that the product of a scalar and an element of the group or a vector is defined, the product of two scalars times a vector is associative, one times a vector is the vector, and two distributive laws hold.
- ventrodorsal — pertaining to the ventral and dorsal aspects of the body; extending from the ventral to the dorsal side.
- verbenaceous — belonging to the plant family Verbenaceae.
- vesiculation — characterized by or covered with vesicles.
- 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.
- via dolorosa — (initial capital letters) Christ's route to Golgotha.
- victorianism — the distinctive character, thought, tendencies, etc., of the Victorian period.
- vienna woods — Wienerwald.
- villahermosa — a state in SE Mexico, on the Gulf of Campeche. 9783 sq. mi. (25,338 sq. km). Capital: Villahermosa.
- villainously — having a cruel, wicked, malicious nature or character.
- vinyasa yoga — a style of yoga in which breathing exercises are used to synchronize fluid transitions through a fixed sequence of poses
- viscerotonia — a personality type characterized by hedonism and conviviality: said to be correlated with an endomorph body type
- viscoelastic — pertaining to a substance having both viscous and elastic properties.
- visitatorial — of or relating to an official visitor or official visitation.
- visuospatial — pertaining to perception of the spatial relationships among objects within the field of vision.
- vital organs — organs in the body that are essential to life
- volcanic ash — ash1 (def 2).