12-letter words containing e, l, v, a, t
- intravitreal — Within an eye.
- investigable — capable of being investigated.
- inveterately — settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling, or the like: an inveterate gambler.
- irrelatively — In an irrelative manner.
- irrelevantly — not relevant; not applicable or pertinent: His lectures often stray to interesting but irrelevant subjects.
- java servlet — (web) (By analogy with "applet") A Java program that runs as part of a network service, typically an HTTP server and responds to requests from clients. The most common use for a servlet is to extend a web server by generating web content dynamically. For example, a client may need information from a database; a servlet can be written that receives the request, gets and processes the data as needed by the client and then returns the result to the client. Servlets are more flexible than CGI scripts and, being written in Java, more portable. The spelling "servelet" is occasionally seen but JavaSoft spell it "servlet". There is no such thing as a "serverlet".
- lake vättern — a lake in S central Sweden: the second largest lake in Sweden; linked to Lake Vänern by the Göta Canal; drains into the Baltic. Area: 1912 sq km (738 sq miles)
- landgraviate — the office, jurisdiction, or territory of a landgrave.
- larval stage — Describes a period of monomaniacal concentration on coding apparently passed through by all fledgling hackers. Common symptoms include the perpetration of more than one 36-hour hacking run in a given week; neglect of all other activities including usual basics like food, sleep, and personal hygiene; and a chronic case of advanced bleary-eye. Can last from 6 months to 2 years, the apparent median being around 18 months. A few so afflicted never resume a more "normal" life, but the ordeal seems to be necessary to produce really wizardly (as opposed to merely competent) programmers. See also wannabee. A less protracted and intense version of larval stage (typically lasting about a month) may recur when one is learning a new OS or programming language.
- laxativeness — the condition or quality of being laxative
- leave-taking — a saying farewell; a parting or goodbye; departure: His leave-taking was brief.
- lever-action — (of a rifle) having a lever action.
- 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.
- levitational — Relating to levitation.
- levorotation — Rotation in an anticlockwise direction, especially such rotation of the plane of polarized light.
- levorotatory — turning to the left, as the rotation to the left of the plane of polarization of light in certain crystals and compounds. Symbol: l-.
- lignum vitae — either of two tropical American trees, Guaiacum officinale or G. sanctum, of the caltrop family, having very hard, heavy wood.
- line voltage — the voltage supplied by a power line, measured at the point of use.
- liverpolitan — a native or inhabitant of Liverpool
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
- maladjustive — Exhibiting or relating to maladjustment.
- malevolently — wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious: His failures made him malevolent toward those who were successful.
- malt vinegar — acidic condiment made from malted barley
- malternative — An alcoholic beverage that contains some malt alcohol, and may contain other types of alcohol, and that is an alternative to beer.
- malversation — improper or corrupt behavior in office, especially in public office.
- manipulative — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.
- market value — the value of a business, property, etc., in terms of what it can be sold for on the open market; current value (distinguished from book value).
- martinsville — a city in S Virginia.
- medievalists — Plural form of medievalist.
- meditatively — given to, characterized by, or indicative of meditation; contemplative.
- mitral valve — the valve between the left atrium and left ventricle of the heart, consisting of two triangular flaps of tissue, that prevents the blood from flowing back into the atrium.
- movable type — type from which text is printed directly in which each character is on a separate piece of metal.
- multivalence — Chemistry. having a valence of three or higher.
- multivariate — (of a combined distribution) having more than one variate or variable.
- nature lover — someone who likes plants, birds and other natural phenomena
- naval stores — supplies for warships.
- nomenclative — relating to the act of naming
- non-volatile — non-volatile storage
- 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.
- novelisation — Alternative spelling of novelization.
- novelization — The writing of a novel based on fact; fictionalization.
- 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.
- 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.
- only have to — If you say you only have to do one thing in order to achieve or prove a second thing, you are emphasizing how easily the second thing can be achieved or proved.
- outlet valve — a valve (on a pipe, etc) controlling the escape or release (of liquid, etc)