12-letter words containing a, v, d, t
- faits divers — brief news stories, as those typically found in some French newspapers, that are sensational, lurid, etc.
- federatively — from a federative point of view
- five-and-ten — Also called five-and-ten-cent store [fahyv-uh n-ten-sent] /ˈfaɪv ənˈtɛnˌsɛnt/ (Show IPA), five-and-dime [fahyv-uh n-dahym] /ˈfaɪv ənˈdaɪm/ (Show IPA), dime store, ten-cent store. a store offering a wide assortment of inexpensive items, formerly costing five or ten cents, for personal and household use.
- gravity feed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- gravity wind — a light wind directed downslope, occurring at night because of the cooling and densification of the air near the ground.
- great divide — the continental divide of North America; the Rocky Mountains.
- gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- half-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- have it good — to be in comfortable circumstances
- have it made — simple past tense and past participle of make1 .
- have need to — to be compelled or required to; must
- heavy-footed — clumsy or ponderous, as in movement or expressiveness: music that is heavy-footed and uninspired.
- heavyhearted — Sad.
- idiot savant — a mentally defective person with an exceptional skill or talent in a special field, as a highly developed ability to play music or to solve complex mathematical problems mentally at great speed.
- inadvertence — the quality or condition of being inadvertent; heedlessness.
- inadvertency — inadvertence.
- indicatively — showing, signifying, or pointing out; expressive or suggestive (usually followed by of): behavior indicative of mental disorder.
- individuated — Simple past tense and past participle of individuate.
- individuates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of individuate.
- invalidating — Present participle of invalidate.
- invalidation — to render invalid; discredit.
- investigated — Simple past tense and past participle of investigate.
- kavir desert — Dasht-e-Kavir.
- landgraviate — the office, jurisdiction, or territory of a landgrave.
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- maidservants — Plural form of maidservant.
- maladjustive — Exhibiting or relating to maladjustment.
- medievalists — Plural form of medievalist.
- meditatively — given to, characterized by, or indicative of meditation; contemplative.
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- modificative — (grammar) That which modifies or qualifies, as a word or clause.
- multigravida — a pregnant woman who has been pregnant two or more times.
- non-advocate — to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly: He advocated higher salaries for teachers.
- nonactivated — not activated,
- nonaddictive — producing or tending to cause addiction: an addictive drug.
- of even date — of the same or today's date
- old covenant — the covenant between God and the ancient Israelites, based on the Mosaic Law.
- old favorite — If you refer to something as an old favorite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
- orthovanadic — relating to orthovanadates
- overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overdecorate — To decorate or embellish to an excessive degree.
- overdelicate — extremely or excessively delicate: an overdelicate digestive system.
- overdominant — excessively dominant
- overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.
- overdramatic — of or relating to the drama.
- overeducated — Having been educated to a higher academic level than is necessary.
- overfatigued — excessively fatigued
- overmedicate — to treat with medicine or medicaments.
- 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