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12-letter words containing f, i, v

  • five-by-five — short and fat.
  • flavoprotein — an enzyme, containing riboflavin and linked chemically with a protein, active in the oxidation of foods in animal cells.
  • flight level — a specified height at which an aircraft is allowed to fly
  • floppy drive — disk drive
  • fluviomarine — of or formed by the combined action of river and sea.
  • flying visit — A flying visit is a visit that only lasts a very short time.
  • food service — the preparation, delivery, serving, etc., of ready-to-eat foods: The cafeteria employs over 20 people in food service.
  • fort belvoir — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Virginia on the Potomac.
  • forward dive — a dive from a position facing the water in which the diver jumps up from the springboard, rotating the body forward, and enters the water either headfirst or feetfirst.
  • frederick iv — Frederick III (def 1).
  • fructivorous — Fruit-eating.
  • fugitiveness — The quality of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility.
  • full-service — offering or providing a wide range of services related to the basic line of business, as when a filling station changes tires or makes car repairs in addition to selling gasoline.
  • gift voucher — gift certificate.
  • give offence — to cause annoyance or displeasure to someone
  • give offense — to offend; anger, insult, etc.
  • gravity feed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
  • griseofulvin — an antibiotic, C 17 H 17 ClO 6 , obtained from a species of Penicillium, used in the treatment of ringworm and other fungous infections of the skin.
  • halls of ivy — an institution of higher learning; university or college; the academic world.
  • hectic fever — a fever associated with tuberculosis
  • ill-favoured — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
  • imperfective — noting an aspect of the verb, as in Russian, that indicates incompleteness of the action or state at a temporal point of reference.
  • in favour of — If one thing is rejected in favour of another, the second thing is done or chosen instead of the first.
  • in-effective — not effective; not producing results; ineffectual: ineffective efforts; ineffective remedies.
  • inclusive of — including; taking into account
  • infiltrative — to filter into or through; permeate.
  • infinitively — a verb form found in many languages that functions as a noun or is used with auxiliary verbs, and that names the action or state without specifying the subject, as French venir “to come,” Latin esse “to be,” fuisse “to have been.”.
  • irreflective — Without mental reflection.
  • isoflavonoid — (organic chemistry) Any compound, isomeric with the flavonoids, derived from 3-phenyl-1,4-benzopyrone.
  • javelin fish — a fish of the genus Pomadasys of semitropical Australian seas with a long spine on its anal fin
  • life savings — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
  • live in fear — You can use expressions such as to live in fear and to live in terror to indicate that someone is always thinking about an unpleasant or frightening event, because they think that it might happen.
  • live-forever — a widely cultivated succulent plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having fleshy, coarsely toothed leaves and flat clusters of purplish flowers.
  • living proof — sb whose existence is evidence of sth
  • lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
  • mauvaise foi — (in the philosophy of Sartre) the expression usually rendered as bad faith
  • modificative — (grammar) That which modifies or qualifies, as a word or clause.
  • neoflavonoid — (organic chemistry) Any compound, isomeric with the flavonoids, derived from 4-phenyl-1,2-benzopyrone.
  • nine-to-five — of, relating to, or during the workday, especially the hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. when offices are characteristically open for business: the nine-to-five grind.
  • nonaffective — of, caused by, or expressing emotion or feeling; emotional.
  • noneffective — not effective.
  • nonfrivolous — not frivolous
  • nonoffensive — Not offensive.
  • nonreflexive — (of a relation) neither reflexive nor irreflexive; holding between some members of its domain and themselves, and failing to hold between others
  • nonvitrified — Not converted into glass.
  • 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.
  • olive family — the plant family Oleaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having opposite, simple or pinnately compound leaves, usually small and sometimes showy flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or winged seed, and including the ash, forsythia, lilac, olive, and privet.
  • out of voice — with the voice temporarily in a poor condition, esp for singing
  • over-inflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
  • over-qualify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
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