12-letter words containing b, e, a, v
- moveableness — The quality of being moveable.
- noble savage — primitive indigenous person
- non-drivable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- non-variable — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- non-voidable — capable of being nullified or invalidated.
- noncombative — Not combative.
- nonobservant — Not observant; not religious; not participating in the observance of religion.
- nonremovable — that may be removed.
- nonrevocable — Not revocable.
- nonvegetable — Not of or pertaining to vegetables.
- note verbale — a diplomatic communication prepared in the third person and unsigned: less formal than a note but more formal than an aide-mémoire.
- 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."
- obliterative — Tending or serving to obliterate.
- observations — Plural form of observation.
- olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.
- overabstract — thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea.
- overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
- overbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbalance.
- overbearance — (rare, or, obsolete) Overbearing behaviour; arrogance; imperiousness.
- overtime ban — a refusal by employees to work overtime
- perturbative — having a tendency to perturb; disturbing.
- phrasal verb — a combination of verb and one or more adverbial or prepositional particles, as catch on, take off, bring up, or put up with, functioning as a single semantic unit and often having an idiomatic meaning that could not be predicted from the meanings of the individual parts.
- primary verb — one of the three verbs, be, do, and have, that can function both as a main verb and an auxiliary verb.
- private bill — a congressional or parliamentary bill involving the private interests of a particular individual, corporation, or local unit.
- provableness — the quality of being provable
- proverbially — of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb: proverbial brevity.
- pulverizable — that can be pulverized
- rabbit fever — tularemia.
- regular verb — verb that follows standard conjugation
- replevisable — capable of being replevied.
- reserve bank — one of the 12 principal banks of the U.S. Federal Reserve System.
- reverberator — to reecho or resound: Her singing reverberated through the house.
- review board — panel appointed to reconsider a matter
- sainte-beuve — Charles Augustin [sharl oh-gy-stan] /ʃarl oʊ güˈstɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1804–69, French literary critic.
- sand verbena — any of several low, mostly trailing plants of the genus Abronia, of the western U.S., having showy, verbenalike flowers.
- sb's travels — the journeys someone makes to places a long way from their home
- scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder
- scrive board — a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.
- severability — capability of being separated, as of a clause in an agreement
- silver bream — a type of ray-finned fish from the family Cyprinidae
- slave labour — Slave labour refers to slaves or to work done by slaves.
- sleeve board — a small-scale ironing board for pressing sleeves, especially a narrow board that fits inside a coat sleeve.
- 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.
- subdividable — to divide (that which has already been divided) into smaller parts; divide again after a first division.
- subvertebral — located below a vertebra
- takeover bid — offer to buy a company
- tavern table — a short table having a narrow, deep apron and legs connected by a box stretcher.
- the bereaved — the survivors of a person who has died recently
- un-revocable — that may be revoked.