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12-letter words containing a, v, e, s, t

  • save the day — solve a problem for sb
  • sb's travels — the journeys someone makes to places a long way from their home
  • security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
  • self-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
  • septemvirate — the ruling body of septemvirs.
  • 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.
  • servant girl — a girl or woman employed as a servant who performs household duties
  • service flat — an apartment with complete hotel services.
  • severability — capability of being separated, as of a clause in an agreement
  • sierra vista — a town in S Arizona.
  • sieve-plates — an elongated cell whose walls contain perforations (sieve pores) that are arranged in circumscribed areas (sieve plates) and that afford communication with similar adjacent cells.
  • silver plate — thin coat of silver
  • silver state — Nevada (used as a nickname).
  • silver-plate — to coat (base metal) with silver, especially by electroplating.
  • sivapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene primates of Asia that resemble the modern orangutan.
  • slave trader — sb who traffics in people
  • space travel — spaceflight of manned vehicles.
  • spotted cavy — paca.
  • stage-driver — the driver of a stagecoach.
  • stakhanovite — a worker in the Soviet Union who regularly surpassed production quotas and was specially honored and rewarded.
  • stanleyville — former name of Kisangani.
  • steam shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
  • steam-driven — powered by steam
  • steam-shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
  • stirrup-vase — a Mycenaean vase having a spherical body, a spout on the shoulder, and a handle, curving across the top, supported by a solid conical neck.
  • stove enamel — a type of enamel made heatproof by treatment in a stove
  • street value — monetary worth
  • struma-river — a river in S Europe, flowing SE through SW Bulgaria and NE Greece into the Aegean. 225 miles (362 km) long.
  • stupefactive — serving to stupefy.
  • sub-additive — something that is added, as one substance to another, to alter or improve the general quality or to counteract undesirable properties: an additive that thins paint.
  • subvertebral — located below a vertebra
  • superelevate — to raise above a normal level
  • supergravity — a hypothetical symmetry among groups of particles containing fermions and bosons, especially in theories of gravity (supergravity) that unify electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force with gravity into a single unified force.
  • superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • sustentative — maintenance in being or activity; the sustaining of life through vital processes.
  • tergiversate — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • thames river — a river in S England, flowing E through London to the North Sea. 209 miles (336 km) long.
  • 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.
  • transitively — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
  • transmissive — the act or process of transmitting.
  • transportive — to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.
  • transumptive — of or relating to transumption
  • transvaluate — to change the value of
  • transversely — lying or extending across or in a cross direction; cross.
  • transversion — a turning across, or into, something else
  • transvestism — the practice, especially of men, of wearing clothing usually associated with the opposite sex for psychological gratification.
  • transvestist — someone who partakes in transvestism
  • transvestite — a person, especially a male, who assumes the dress and manner usually associated with the opposite sex.
  • traverse rod — a horizontal rod upon which drapes slide to open or close when pulled by cords.
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