12-letter words containing a, v, i, l, s
- discoverable — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
- disgavelling — the act or quality of being without gavelkind
- disinvoltura — Self-assurance; lack of constraint.
- dissuasively — In a dissuasive manner.
- dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
- dovetail saw — a backsaw for fine woodworking, as dovetailing.
- driving sail — a sail that, when filled, tends to force the hull of a vessel downward (opposed to lifting sail).
- dzhugashvili — Iosif Vissarionovich [Russian yaw-syif-vyi-suh-ryi-aw-nuh-vyich] /Russian ˈyɔ syɪf vyɪ sə ryɪˈɔ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Stalin, Joseph.
- edwardsville — a town in SW Illinois.
- enviableness — Enviability.
- evangelicals — Plural form of evangelical.
- evangelistic — Seeking to convert others to the Christian faith; missionary.
- everlastings — Plural form of everlasting.
- exhaustively — In an exhaustive manner.
- false gavial — a SE Asian crocodile, Tomistoma schlegeli, similar to but smaller than the gavial
- festivalgoer — A person attending a festival.
- gallivanters — Plural form of gallivanter.
- galvanotaxis — movement of an organism or any of its parts in a particular direction in response to an electric current; electrotaxis.
- halls of ivy — an institution of higher learning; university or college; the academic world.
- heavenliness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being heavenly.
- hiram revels — Hiram Rhoades [rohdz] /roʊdz/ (Show IPA), 1822–1901, U.S. clergyman, educator, and politician: first black senator 1870–71.
- illustrative — serving to illustrate; explanatory: illustrative examples.
- individual's — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
- inobservable — Unobservable.
- intravesical — Within the urinary bladder.
- investigable — capable of being investigated.
- invigilators — Plural form of invigilator.
- irrelevances — Plural form of irrelevance.
- irresolvable — not resolvable; incapable of being resolved, analyzable, or solvable.
- irresolvably — In an irresolvable manner.
- isoflavonoid — (organic chemistry) Any compound, isomeric with the flavonoids, derived from 3-phenyl-1,4-benzopyrone.
- jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
- javelin fish — a fish of the genus Pomadasys of semitropical Australian seas with a long spine on its anal fin
- kelvin scale — William Thomson, 1st Baron, 1824–1907, English physicist and mathematician.
- labor-saving — A labor-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
- lap dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
- lasciviously — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- laxativeness — the condition or quality of being laxative
- levalloisian — of, relating to, or characteristic of a distinctive late Lower and Middle Paleolithic method of preparing a stone core so that preformed thin, oval or triangular flakes with sharp edges could be struck from it.
- levi strauss — David Friedrich [dah-veet free-drikh] /ˈdɑ vit ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1808–74, German theologian, philosopher, and author.
- levi-strauss — Claude, 1908–2009, French anthropologist and educator, born in Belgium: founder of structural anthropology.
- life savings — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- living space — home: rooms, etc.
- madisonville — a city in W Kentucky.
- maladjustive — Exhibiting or relating to maladjustment.
- malversation — improper or corrupt behavior in office, especially in public office.
- martinsville — a city in S Virginia.
- mediaevalism — Alternative spelling of medievalism.