12-letter words containing e, v, r, t
- gravity cell — a cell containing two electrolytes that have different specific gravities.
- gravity feed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- gravity wave — Astronomy, Physics. gravitational wave.
- great divide — the continental divide of North America; the Rocky Mountains.
- great vassal — (in feudal society) a man who entered into a personal relationship with a king to whom he paid homage and fealty in return for protection and often a fief.
- growth curve — a curve on a graph in which a variable is plotted against time to illustrate the growth of the variable
- gustav hertz — Gustav [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1887–1975, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1925.
- gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- half-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- haricot vert — green bean.
- harvest home — the bringing home of the harvest.
- harvest mite — chigger (def 1).
- harvest moon — the moon at and about the period of fullness that is nearest to the autumnal equinox.
- harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
- harvest time — season when crops are gathered
- have a heart — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- heavy hitter — a baseball player who makes many extra-base hits.
- heavyhearted — Sad.
- hectic fever — a fever associated with tuberculosis
- hever castle — a Tudor mansion near Edenbridge in Kent: home of Anne Boleyn before her marriage; Italian garden added in the 20th century by the Astor family
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- hypergravity — The presence of an apparently 'increased' gravitational field in an accelerating or rotating situation.
- hypertensive — characterized by or causing high blood pressure.
- ibota privet — a Japanese spreading shrub, Ligustrum obtusifolium, of the olive family, having hairy leaves and nodding white flower clusters.
- il trovatore — an opera (1853) by Giuseppe Verdi.
- illustrative — serving to illustrate; explanatory: illustrative examples.
- imperatively — absolutely necessary or required; unavoidable: It is imperative that we leave.
- imperceptive — not perceptive; lacking perception.
- imperfective — noting an aspect of the verb, as in Russian, that indicates incompleteness of the action or state at a temporal point of reference.
- improvements — Plural form of improvement.
- inadvertence — the quality or condition of being inadvertent; heedlessness.
- inadvertency — inadvertence.
- inconversant — Not conversant or acquainted (with something); unfamiliar.
- incorruptive — incorruptible; not tending to be corrupted
- incrassative — A substance which has the power to thicken; formerly, a medicine supposed to thicken the humours.
- indivertible — incapable of being diverted or turned aside
- infiltrative — to filter into or through; permeate.
- ingravescent — (esp of a disease) becoming more severe
- innervations — Plural form of innervation.
- insectivores — Plural form of insectivore.
- interceptive — to take, seize, or halt (someone or something on the way from one place to another); cut off from an intended destination: to intercept a messenger.
- interconvert — to subject to interconversion; interchange.
- interdictive — Having the power to prohibit.
- interinvolve — to involve mutually or reciprocally
- interjective — Interjectional.
- interleaving — sector interleave
- intermissive — of, relating to, or characterized by intermission.
- interpluvial — designating a drier period occurring between two periods of persistently heavy rainfall
- interpretive — serving to interpret; explanatory.
- interruptive — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).