12-letter words containing e, a, v
- 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.
- subdividable — to divide (that which has already been divided) into smaller parts; divide again after a first division.
- 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.
- supermassive — (of a black hole or star) having a mass in the range of millions or billions of times that of the sun
- superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- surface wave — a seismic wave that travels along or parallel to the earth's surface (distinguished from body wave).
- surveillance — a watch kept over a person, group, etc., especially over a suspect, prisoner, or the like: The suspects were under police surveillance.
- sustentative — maintenance in being or activity; the sustaining of life through vital processes.
- svo language — a type of language that has basic subject-verb-object word order, as English, Chinese, or Spanish.
- swallow dive — swan dive.
- swivel chair — a chair whose seat turns around horizontally on a swivel.
- takeover bid — offer to buy a company
- tautavel man — Arago man.
- tavern table — a short table having a narrow, deep apron and legs connected by a box stretcher.
- tergiversate — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
- tetravalence — the condition of having a valency of four
- thames river — a river in S England, flowing E through London to the North Sea. 209 miles (336 km) long.
- the bereaved — the survivors of a person who has died recently
- the devonian — the Devonian period or rock system
- the nativity — the birth of Jesus
- the new wave — a movement in the French cinema of the 1960s, led by such directors as Godard, Truffaut, and Resnais, characterized by a fluid use of the camera and an abandonment of traditional editing techniques
- the varletry — rabble; mob
- the-overcoat — a short story (1842) by Gogol.
- three-valued — of or relating to propositions having a value other than truth or falsity.
- tidal volume — the volume of water associated with a rising tide
- to advantage — any state, circumstance, opportunity, or means specially favorable to success, interest, or any desired end: the advantage of a good education.
- 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.
- travel agent — a person who owns, operates, or works for a travel agency.
- travel light — If you travel light, you travel without taking much luggage.