12-letter words containing e, l, v, a, t
- steam shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
- steam-shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
- stove enamel — a type of enamel made heatproof by treatment in a stove
- street value — monetary worth
- subvertebral — located below a vertebra
- superelevate — to raise above a normal level
- superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- tautavel man — Arago man.
- tavern table — a short table having a narrow, deep apron and legs connected by a box stretcher.
- tetravalence — the condition of having a valency of four
- the varletry — rabble; mob
- 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
- transitively — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
- transvaluate — to change the value of
- transversely — lying or extending across or in a cross direction; cross.
- 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.
- travel-weary — tired or exhausted as a result of travelling
- trivial name — a common name or vernacular name, as of a plant or animal
- trivialities — something trivial; a trivial matter, affair, remark, etc.: cocktail conversation marked by trivialities.
- trypaflavine — acriflavine hydrochloride.
- ultraviolent — characterized by or pertaining to extreme acts of violence
- unalleviated — to make easier to endure; lessen; mitigate: to alleviate sorrow; to alleviate pain.
- unambivalent — not ambivalent; definite; certain.
- uncultivable — capable of being cultivated.
- uncultivated — prepared and used for raising crops; tilled: cultivated land.
- unequivalent — equal in value, measure, force, effect, significance, etc.: His silence is equivalent to an admission of guilt.
- uninvestable — that can be invested.
- universalist — a person characterized by universalism, as in knowledge, interests, or activities.
- universality — the character or state of being universal; existence or prevalence everywhere.
- unventilated — not having stale or foul air driven out
- valetudinary — valetudinarian.
- value system — moral code, ethos
- valve lifter — (in an internal-combustion engine) a tappet that opens a valve when actuated by a camshaft.
- valve timing — Valve timing is the exact timing of the opening and closing of the valves in a piston engine.
- vanity plate — a vehicle license plate bearing a combination of letters or numbers requested by the licensee, as a name or occupation.
- varia lectio — a variant reading.
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- vaudevillist — a person who writes for vaudeville
- vegetal pole — the relatively inactive part of an ovum opposite the animal pole, containing much yolk and little cytoplasm.
- vegetational — all the plants or plant life of a place, taken as a whole: the vegetation of the Nile valley.
- velarization — to pronounce with velar articulation.
- velociraptor — a small carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Velociraptor , from the late Cretaceous period, capable of leaping, and growing to a length of about 6 feet (2 meters), having feathers, a flat snout, short forelimbs with large handlike talons, and a large sickle-shaped claw on each foot.
- velvet plant — a composite plant, Gynura aurantiaca, native to the Old World tropics, having leaves and stems covered with dense, velvety, purple hairs and often cultivated as a houseplant. Compare purple passion.
- velvet shank — a bright yellow edible basidiomycetous fungus, Flammulina velutipes, common on trunks, stumps, or branches of broad-leaved trees in winter
- venerability — commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity; worthy of veneration or reverence, as because of high office or noble character: a venerable member of Congress.
- ventral root — a nerve fiber bundle that emerges from either side of the spinal cord and joins with a complementary bundle to form each spinal nerve in the series of spinal nerves: the root at the rear of the spinal cord (dorsal root or sensory root) conveys sensations to the central nervous system, and the root at the front (ventral root or motor root) conveys impulses to the muscles.
- ventrodorsal — pertaining to the ventral and dorsal aspects of the body; extending from the ventral to the dorsal side.
- ventromedial — relating to both the ventral and medial surfaces, or to the front and to the middle