12-letter words containing a, u, v, o
- fluviomarine — of or formed by the combined action of river and sea.
- food vacuole — a membrane-enclosed cell vacuole with a digestive function, containing material taken up in by the process of phagocytosis.
- gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- haute-savoie — a department in E France. 1775 sq. mi. (4595 sq. km). Capital: Annecy.
- heliogravure — photoengraving.
- ill-favoured — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- in favour of — If one thing is rejected in favour of another, the second thing is done or chosen instead of the first.
- intraveneous — Misspelling of intravenous.
- 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
- jordan curve — simple closed curve.
- juventa fons — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed through a telescope.
- katharevousa — The purist form of modern Greek used in traditional literary writing, as opposed to the form that is spoken and used in everyday writing (called demotic).
- kurchatovium — (chemistry) A rejected name for rutherfordium.
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- lasciviously — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- louver board — one of a series of overlapping, sloping boards used as louvers in an opening, so arranged as to admit air but to exclude rain or cut off visibility from the outside.
- manoeuvering — Present participle of manoeuver.
- manoeuvrable — Alternative spelling of maneuverable.
- manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
- mare vaporum — (Sea of Vapors) a dark plain in the first quadrant and near the center of the face of the moon: about 39,000 sq. mi. (101,000 sq. km).
- marvellously — In a marvellous manner.
- mauvaise foi — (in the philosophy of Sartre) the expression usually rendered as bad faith
- misbehaviour — (British) alternative spelling of misbehavior.
- molar volume — the volume occupied by one mole of a gas, liquid, or solid.
- multivarious — Many and various.
- nature lover — someone who likes plants, birds and other natural phenomena
- non-curative — serving to cure or heal; pertaining to curing or remedial treatment; remedial.
- non-vascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- noncausative — Not causative.
- nonuniversal — Not universal.
- nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
- nonvexatious — Not vexatious.
- nonvoluntary — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
- normal curve — a bell-shaped curve showing a particular distribution of probability over the values of a random variable. Also called Gaussian curve, probability curve.
- nueva gerona — a town on the Isle of Pines, S of Cuba.
- nuevo laredo — a city in NE Mexico, on the Rio Grande opposite Laredo, Texas.
- object value — (jargon) In industrial design, a measure of consumers' immediate desire for an object, even before they know or understand what it does. "Gassee may be nuts, but at least the BeBox has great object value."
- oncornavirus — any of various RNA viruses that cause tumors in humans and other animals.
- out of favor — something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
- outlet valve — a valve (on a pipe, etc) controlling the escape or release (of liquid, etc)
- outmaneuvers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outmaneuver.
- outmanoeuvre — British. outmaneuver.
- oval kumquat — a spineless shrub or small citrus tree, Fortunella margarita, of China, having oval-shaped, orange-yellow fruit with sweet and acid flesh.
- over-anxious — excessively anxious.
- over-fraught — Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
- 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.
- over-popular — regarded with favor, approval, or affection by people in general: a popular preacher.
- over-qualify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.