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12-letter words containing e, v, a, s

  • space travel — spaceflight of manned vehicles.
  • space-saving — that saves space.
  • spinal nerve — any of a series of paired nerves that originate in the nerve roots of the spinal cord and emerge from the vertebrae on both sides of the spinal column, each branching out to innervate a specific region of the neck, trunk, or limbs.
  • spotted cavy — paca.
  • squaresville — a thing, place, etc., regarded as conventional, unfashionable, or conservative.
  • squaw valley — valley in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, E Calif., near Lake Tahoe: a ski resort
  • stage-driver — the driver of a stagecoach.
  • stakhanovite — a worker in the Soviet Union who regularly surpassed production quotas and was specially honored and rewarded.
  • stanleyville — former name of Kisangani.
  • 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.
  • tergiversate — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • thames river — a river in S England, flowing E through London to the North Sea. 209 miles (336 km) long.
  • 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.
  • traverse rod — a horizontal rod upon which drapes slide to open or close when pulled by cords.
  • trivialities — something trivial; a trivial matter, affair, remark, etc.: cocktail conversation marked by trivialities.
  • tsesarevitch — (in Russian history) the eldest son of a tsar or his heir apparent
  • unadvertised — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
  • unaggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
  • unapplausive — not giving applause; not expressing praise
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